Biography

Hilmi Ali Sharif was born in the city of Sulaymaniyah in 1930. In 1948, he was imprisoned in the city of Sulaymaniyah during a demonstration against the Portsmouth Treaty between the British Empire and the Kingdom of Iraq, was sent to Baqubah prison, was later released, and remained in exile in that city. In 1949, as an exile, he completed his high school education in the city of Baqubah.

In 1949, he was admitted to the College of Engineering at the University of Baghdad. In 1968, he was admitted to the College of Political Science at the University of Baghdad. In 1976, he received a bachelor's degree in Law from Al-Mustansiriya University in the city of Baghdad. On July 4, 1998, he passed away in the city of Baghdad due to illness and was buried in the Saywan cemetery in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He was proficient in the Kurdish and Arabic languages.

Struggle Record

Hilmi Ali Sharif was imprisoned for two years by the royal authorities of Iraq in 1950 due to his political activities. In 1951, within the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was among the supporters of the faction of the lawyer Hamza Abdullah Omar (1915-1998) . In 1953, he was a founding member of the Kurdistan Students Union, and in the same year, he was a member of the preparatory committee for the first congress of the Kurdistan Students Union and was elected as a member of the administrative board at the Congress.

On July 16, 1958, in the city of Sulaymaniyah, he participated in a meeting to send a Kurdish delegation to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and supported the overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy by the army and the declaration of the Republic of Iraq. In the same year, he was made the head of the Khanaqin regional committee of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party. On January 8, 1960, he was a member of the founding committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the phase of open work, and in 1960, at the Fifth Congress , he was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In the Year 1961, he was the person in charge of the Peshmerga forces of Garmian and Garmasar. In 1963, he commanded the battle of Horin village in the Khanaqin region, which is part of Diyala Governorate, against the militants of the Iraqi Communist Party. In the same year, he was wounded in a counter-attack by the armed forces of the Iraqi Communist Party at the Belula Pass in the Khanaqin region and was forced to retreat. In 1963, he was the head of the Voice of Kurdistan radio station in Gardarash on the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate.

In the Year 1964, at the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , because of his support for the Political Bureau faction and deviation from the bylaws, he was expelled from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , and in the same year, he went with the forces of the Political Bureau faction towards Hamadan in the Country of Iran and remained there until the Year 1965. Later, he was granted amnesty by the leader Mullah Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) and returned to Southern Kurdistan.

On January 28, 1966, together with Jalal Talabani (1933-2017), the lawyer Omar Mustafa, and Ali Askari, he secretly headed from the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate towards the border under the authority of the Iraqi government and stood against the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and commanded an armed force of the Ibrahim Ahmad and Jalal Talabani group, which had been armed by the Iraqi army to attack the positions of the Peshmerga of the Aylul Revolution in the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate, and they were initially successful but were later defeated.

In 1966, with the intention of connecting with Jalal Talabani, he visited the village of Kalosh by helicopter with Abdul Khaliq Samarraie. On June 19, 1966, in the city of Baghdad, he met separately with Dr. Abdul Rahman al-Bazzaz (1914-1973), the Prime Minister of Iraq, and Lieutenant General Abdul Rahman Muhammad Arif (1916-2007), the President of Iraq, with the intention of cooperating with the Iraqi army against the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution.

. On December 27, 1970, he participated in the final meeting of the Ibrahim Ahmad and Jalal Talabani group, and the Kurdistan Democratic Party was not willing to accept him back into its ranks. In 1972, he became a member of the leadership of the Kurdistan Revolutionary Party, which was affiliated with the regime of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party of Iraq. On July 4, 1998, he passed away in the city of Baghdad due to illness. 

Among his works:

  1. The Epic of Newroz and the Newroz of Kurdistan - 1991.
  2. Geopolitics, State, Foreign Policy, and the Fate of the World - 1995.
  3. Two Political Studies - 2001.
  4. A Comparison Between 1966 and 1996 - No Year.
  5. Gorbachev's Beliefs and Actions in the Balance - 2014.
Sources:
  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.
  2. History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Congress and Conference (Program and Internal Bylaws), Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board, Volume One, (Erbil - Roxana Printing House - 2021).
  3. Ali Sinjari, The Kurdish Cause and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq, Part Three, (Duhok - Khani Printing House - 2012 AD).
  4. Chris Kutschera, The Kurdish National Movement, translated by Ibrahim Younesi, second edition, (Tehran - Negah Publishing Institute - 1377 AH).
  5. Shwan Muhammad Amin Taha Khoshnaw, Erbil Between the Years (1958 - 1963), A Study of the Political Situation, (Erbil - Rojhalat Printing House - 2012 AD).
  6. Shwan Muhammad Amin Taha Khoshnaw, Erbil Between the Years 1963 - 1970, A Historical Study of the Political Situation, (Erbil - Salahaddin University Printing House - 2016 AD).
  7. Jamal Nabaz, Memoirs of Those Days That Will Never Return, (Sulaymaniyah - Shvan Printing House - 2017 AD).
  8. Shawkat Khaznadar, Journeys and Stations of the Iraqi Communist Party ... A View from the Inside, (Beirut - Dar Al-Kunooz Al-Adabiya - 2005 AD).
  9. Expulsion of Talabani and Hilmi Sharif, Ettela'at Newspaper, Issue 12016, Tehran, Saturday, 11 Tir 1345 AH, p. 3.
  10. Habib Muhammad Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (In Key Stations), 1946 - 1993, (Duhok - Khabat Printing House - 1998 AD).
  11. Hilmi Ali Sharif, Two Political Studies, (Sulaymaniyah - Sardam Publishing and Printing House - 2001 AD).
  12. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Volume Three, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Printing House - 2002 AD).
  13. Mahmud Othman, Kurdistan Revolution, (Location unknown - Kurdistan Democratic Party - Political Bureau - 1970 AD).
  14. Ali Sinjari, The Kurdish Issue and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq, Part Three, (Duhok - Khani Press - 2012 AD).