Khurshid Salim Shera joined the ranks of the Party in the Year 1954, and in the Year 1954 he was active as an active cadre of the farmers of the Erbil plain, in the Year 1958 he was the head of the military line of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1979 he was a member of the preparatory committee 9th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, after the 1991 uprising he held several administrative positions in the cabinets of the Kurdistan Regional Government such as Director General, Governor, etc., in the Year 2005 he was a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly.

Biography

Khurshid Shera was born in Erbil in 1938, completed high school in 1953, married Mamz Khadr Pirot Shera in 1959, and in 1963 his mother and wife were imprisoned by the authorities of the government of Iraq and his second son was born in Erbil prison.

In 1992, in the first cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government, he was the Director General of the Diwan of the Ministry of Interior, in 1994 in the second cabinet he was made Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation of the Kurdistan Regional Government, from (1994-1996) he was the Governor of Erbil, in 2000 in the fourth cabinet he was appointed as Deputy Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs of the Kurdistan Regional Government, in 2005 he was a member of the second term of the Kurdistan National Assembly. He knows three languages: Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian.

Struggle Record

Khurshid Shera was the head of the military line of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1958, and was a member of the preparatory committee for the congresses of the Fifth 1960, the Sixth 1964, the Seventh 1966 and the Eighth 1970 of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and participated in the congresses.

In the Year 1962, with his information while he was in the ranks of the Iraq army, the second battalion of the third brigade of the Iraq army in the Zakho valley fell into an ambush by the Peshmerga Forces and was destroyed, and in the same year he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and participated in the Battle of Balisan Mountain, the Battle of Kospi Spi, the second Battle of Safin on the border of Erbil province, and the Battle of Qaradagh on the border of Sulaymaniyah province against the forces of the Iraq army, and at the end of 1963 he was a platoon leader in the Asos branch in the first battalion of the Kawa force.

In the Year 1965, he was the head of the Koya district committee affiliated with the second branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the same year he became a member of the sixth staff of the second branch committee and was appointed as an administrator of the branch committee.

In the Year 1965, he participated in the epic of Safin and was wounded, and in the same year he was one of the commanders of the six-pronged battle (Shargah battle) in the Koya region against the Iraq army and they recorded a victory, and he participated in the Battle of the Erbil plain, the second epic of Safin, and the Battle of Bestana.

Until the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he remained as a branch administrator, and in the Year 1979 after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he became a refugee in Iran, in the Year 1979 he was a member of the preparatory committee of the 9th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and was appointed as the head of the second branch committee.

In 1989, he was a member of the preparatory committee for the 10th Congress of the Party of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Eastern Kurdistan, and in 1991 he was one of the commanders of the Peshmerga Forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party who reached the Pishdar region and participated in the liberation of the town of Ranya, the town of Koya, and Erbil.

In 1992, in the first cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government, he was the Director General of the Diwan of the Ministry of Interior, and in 1993 he was appointed as the head of the administrative committee of the Eleventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, in 1994 he was made Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and during the years (1994-1996) he was the Governor of Erbil.

In 1999, he was a representative of the Twelfth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Erbil, and because of his struggle in the Aylul Revolution and Gulan Revolution and the stage of the uprising of Southern Kurdistan and the stage of sovereignty, by President Masoud Barzani he was awarded the Medal of the Immortal Barzani.

In 2000, in the fourth cabinet, he was appointed as Deputy Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs of the Kurdistan Regional Government. In 2005, he was elected as a member of the second term of the Kurdistan National Assembly and during that period he was made a member of several different committees of the Kurdistan National Assembly, and in 2010 he was a representative of the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Erbil.

Among his works:

  1. Struggle and Blood: Memoirs of the Years of Peshmerga Struggle - 2006.
Sources:
  1. Asaad Ado, The Six-Pronged Battle or the Shargah Battle, Brayati Newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, No. 1765, Erbil, Saturday, October 9, 1993 AD.
  2. Ali Sinjari, The Kurdish Cause and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq, Part Three, (Duhok - Khani Press - 2012 AD).
  3. Shwan Muhammad Amin Taha Khoshnaw, Erbil between the years (1958 - 1963) A study of the political situation, (Erbil - Rojhalat Press - 2012 AD).
  4. Shwan Muhammad Amin Taha Khoshnaw, Erbil between the years 1963 - 1970 A historical study of the political situation, (Erbil - Salahaddin University Press - 2016 AD).
  5. Ari Faruq Hassan Nanakali, Institutions of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Aylul Revolution between the years 1961 - 1975, (Erbil - Ravza Press - 2016 AD).
  6. Jamal Murtka, The Mountain Writes Itself, Volume One, (Erbil - Hevi Press, 2012 AD).
  7. Ahmed Sharif Lak, Analysis of Historical Events, Volume Two, (Erbil - Rojhalat Press - 2019 AD).
  8. Hamid Gawhari, Barzani Medal, the Highest Honor Award, Volume Two, (Erbil - Immortal Barzani Charity Foundation - Haji Hashim Press - 2015 AD).
  9. Habib Muhammad Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (In Key Stations) 1946 - 1993, (Duhok - Khabat Press - 1998 AD).
  10. Khurshid Shera, We were Peshmerga so that we would die and the nation would live, Khabat newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, issue 1531, Erbil, Monday, August 16, 2004.
  11. Khurshid Shera, Struggle and Blood, Memoirs of the Years of Peshmerga Struggle, third edition, (Erbil - Haji Hashim Printing House - 2015).
  12. Ali Kamal Barzi, Prominent Kurdish Personalities in the Twentieth Century, Volume One, (Erbil - Barzi Project - University Printing House - 1999).
  13. Fatih Rasul, Several Pages from the History of the Struggle of Our Kurdish People, Volume One, (Sweden - Halabja Printing House - 1991).
  14. Kayfi Hadi, recounts his memories regarding the beginnings of the struggle and Peshmerga work for the readers of our magazine, Derin magazine, organ of the Media Office of the Erbil Branch Committee, issue 1, Erbil, Ministry of Education Printing House, Saturday, June 4, 2005.
  15. Mala Shakhi, The Uprising and.. The Liberation of Kirkuk, second edition, (Kirkuk - Martyr Azad Hawrami Printing House - 2012).
  16. Heval Gulbakh recounts a part of the epic of the uprising, Brayati newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, issue 1889, Erbil, Saturday, March 5, 1994.