Biography

Fatih Mihemed Emîn Murteza was born in Kirkuk province. He is from the Feyli Siyamansûrî tribe, whose ancestors migrated from the Kermanshah region of East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan. In 1959, he enrolled in the Kurdish department of the College of Arts at the University of Baghdad. On October 9, 1962, his brother Hasîb Mihemed Emîn (1926-1962) was martyred in the Axcelar battle in Kirkuk province during an attack by the ground forces of the Iraqi government army, and he is considered the first teacher to have been martyred in the September Revolution He received his Bachelor's degree in Kurdish from the University of Baghdad in 1963. From 1970 to 1974, he served as the Deputy Director of Education in Kirkuk and was responsible for Kurdish education. In August 1971, he represented the congress of education administrators of the northern provinces of Iraq in the town of Pirmam, located in Erbil province, to discuss education and work issues. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, Turkmen, Persian, English, and German.

Career

Fatih Mihemed Emîn Murteza joined the KDP in 1957 during the Iraqi monarchy and worked under the pseudonym Birusk. In 1959, he joined the Kurdistan Students Union. From 1959 to 1962, he was a member of the Organizational Committee of the University of Baghdad for the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In 1963, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces and was a political official within the Qeredax force. In 1963, he participated in the Zenbûr battle against the Iraqi army in Kirkuk province. In 1963, he was an administrator of the Third Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In 1964, he worked as a broadcaster in the Turkmen language section of the Voice of Kurdistan Radio. In 1964, he became the second official of the Fifth Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In 1964, he opposed the decisions of the Mawet General Meeting, which had been organized by the Political Bureau faction of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and supported President Mustafa Barzani.

In 1964, he was a member of the twelve-person negotiation delegation of the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which had gone to the Political Bureau faction with the approval of President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) to participate in the Sixth Congress, but the delegation did not succeed due to the insistence of the Political Bureau faction not to participate. In 1964, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) by the representatives of the Sixth Congress. In 1966, he was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) by the representatives of the Seventh Congress. In 1966, he was appointed as the official of the Third Branch Committee. In 1967, he was arrested by Iraqi government authorities and held in the Neqliyet, General Mawqif, and Rumadiya prisons, where he was severely tortured. He was released at the end of 1969. In 1969, he was the director of the Gelale Middle School, which was the only middle school of the September Revolution In 1969, he became a member of the editorial board of Tişk magazine. On August 5, 1970, in the village of Nawpirdan in Erbil province, he was a representative of the Third Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union. In 1970, he was a representative of the Eighth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the village of Nawpirdan in Erbil province. In 1970, he was appointed as the second official of the First Branch Committee headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) from the eleventh staff.

In 1970, he became the supervisor of the First Branch Committee. In 1971, he welcomed the world boxer Ednan Qeysî at the headquarters of the Fourth Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In 1972, he was a representative of the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union in Erbil. In 1972, he was the official of the Kirkuk branch of the Kurdistan Teachers Union. In mid-1973, he was a member of the founding committee of the Kurdish Cultural Association in Kirkuk. In 1973, he was elected as a member of the executive committee of the Kurdistan Writers Union, Kirkuk branch. From February 1 to 3, 1974, he was a representative of the Fifth Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union in Sulaymaniyah. In 1974, he was appointed as the official of the Kurdistan Teachers Union, Kirkuk branch. In 1974, he became the official of the Sîrwan district committee under the Third Branch Committee. In 1975, he was wounded by the Iraqi army in the Tûzxurmatû battle in Kirkuk province.

In 1975-1976, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he was a refugee in the town of Nexede in Iran. In 1976, after returning to South Kurdistan, he was deported to central Iraq. He spent his life in exile in Diwaniyah from 1976 to 1982. From 1982 to 1991, he spent his life in exile in Baquba, the center of Diyala province. In 1991, he was transferred to Erbil as a teacher, and in 1991, he was appointed as the second official of the Bureau of Mass Organizations (Komi) of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In 1992, he was a candidate for the first round of the Kurdistan Parliament on the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) list. In 1992, he facilitated the organization of the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union. From 1992 to 1994, he was the General Director of Education in Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Regional Government.

In 1993, he was a representative at the eleventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified in Erbil, in the years 1993-1994 he was an administrator of the second branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified in Erbil, in 1995 he entered the Federal Republic of Germany as a refugee, in the years 1999-2001 he was the head of the Berlin Organization of the Sixth European Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in the years 2001-2005 he was a Member of the Kurdistan Parliament, on April 4, 2002, he became a member of the Committee on Education and Higher Education Affairs of the first term of the Kurdistan Parliament, in 2005 he was appointed as the head of the Human Rights Office in Kirkuk province, on November 12, 2002, he became a member of the Committee on Education and Higher Education Affairs of the first term of the Kurdistan Parliament, in the years 2011-2019 he worked as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kirkuk-Garmian province of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), he passed away on Monday, November 2, 2020.

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