Ebdula Derwesh Eli has been known by the name Ebdula Derwesh Eredini. He was born in 1945 in the village of Eredine, which is affiliated with the Sersing sub-district in the Amedi district of Duhok province. He studied up to the middle school level. In 1961, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the September Revolution. He became a Peshmerga in the Lower Doski region and with Ased Xoshewi. Later, he was transferred to the side of Seid Xelil Xoshewi and managed administrative work. Ebdula Derwesh was wounded in the battles of the village of Germik in 1961 and in the battle of Lower Doski in 1964. In 1963, he returned to the Duhok force and became the Head of the Weapons and Ammunition Depot of that force there.
In 1964, at the First Military Headquarters in the Upper Barwari region, he received the task of writing for the radio and communications department. In 1966, in the village of Qesre in the Balekayeti region, he took a first-aid course, and after returning to the First Military, he worked in the Revolution Hospital in the village of Qumeye in the Upper Barwari region under the hand of Dr. Mushe, who was a Christian doctor. In the same year, in the village of Qesre, he completed a six-month radio course with a high grade under Nuri Heyderi. After a few months of re-taking another radio course with new equipment, they sent him to the village of Rayat. After the end of the course, he was assigned to the radio department in Barzan, and in 1971, he was transferred to the Barzani Headquarters in Haji Omeran.
In 1974, after the start of the war by the Iraqi army against the Peshmerga forces of the September Revolution, Ebdula Derwesh was sent to Iran and worked at the Revolution Relations Bureau, where Dr. Shefiq Qezaz was the Head of the Bureau. In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he migrated to the country of Iran. Initially, he resided in the city of Nexede, and from there, he was transferred to the city of Erdekan in Yazd province. In 1991, after the uprising and popular revolt of South Kurdistan, he returned to Kurdistan.
In 1979, he returned to the village of Rajan in East Kurdistan and was assigned the task of Deputy Head of the Political Bureau Relations Department at the Radio Department of the Political Bureau. In 1985, he worked in the Political Bureau Relations Department, whose headquarters were in Lolan. In 1986, with President Masoud Barzani he went to the village of Kani Sardik in the Nerwe district and managed the radio of the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and after six months, he returned to the village of Rajan.
In 1991, before the start of the uprising and popular revolt of South Kurdistan, he was with President Masoud Barzani at Qasime Resh, and later, step by step, he was with President Masoud Barzani during the progress of the uprisings in Ranya, Erbil, Koye, Shaqlawa, Pirde, and Kore. After the defeat of the Iraqi army and the start of negotiations, he went to Baghdad three times with President Masoud Barzani .
On August 16, 1996, on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, because of the services he had provided, he received the Barzani medal from President Barzani.
1. Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.