Bekir Ismail Mohammed Abdulrahman was born in Erbil. In 1937 he completed primary school in Koya, in Erbil Governorate. In 1940, at the beginning of his activities with the Kurdish Hîwa Party, he demonstrated political activity in Koya. In 1945, the printing presses of the Revolution Party and the Kurdish Liberation Party were hidden in the house where he lived in Baghdad. In 1946 he lived in the secret house of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Baghdad's Al-A'zamiya district, where its printing press and secret publications were kept. In 1947 he received a bachelor's degree in law from Baghdad Law College. From 27 to 29 December 1948 he participated in the Baghdad students' demonstration against the Portsmouth Treaty between Britain and Iraq. He was proficient in Kurdish and Arabic.
Struggle RecordLawyer and politician Bekir Ismail Mohammed Abdulrahman, known as Bekir Haji Ismail, became a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party at the Koya Conference in 1950. At the second Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1951, he became a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party.
In 1953 he became a member of the founding board of the Democratic Union of Kurdistan Youth. In 1954, protesting the Iraqi Government's fraud in the Sulaymaniyah municipal elections, he and lawyers Omar Mustafa Mohammed Amin (1923–1992), known as Omar Dababa, and Jalil Yusuf Ahmed (1921–1996), known as Jalil Hoshyar, were arrested by the authorities and exiled from Erbil to Baghdad.
In 1970 he was transferred from the Sulaymaniyah Court of First Instance to the Hillah Court of First Instance. In 1975 he became a member of the Court of Cassation in Baghdad. Until 1977 he was head of the Public Prosecution Committee in Babil Governorate. In 1977 he was transferred to the presidency of the Appeals Court of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region. In 1978 he became deputy president of the Appeals Court of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region. On 23 September 1978, by order of the Revolutionary Command Council, he was appointed a judge at the Iraqi Court of Cassation. In 1980 he became president of the Appeals Court of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region. After the uprising in South Kurdistan, he served as adviser to the Legal Administration of the Kurdistan Regional Government from 1992 to 2004. He later became legal adviser to the President of the Council of Ministers of the Kurdistan Regional Government. On 28 August 2008 he died in Erbil and was buried at Sheikh Ahmed Cemetery in Erbil.
Source:1 - Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.