Politician Mirza Abdulkarim Mustafa, known as Mirza Haji Abdulkarim the Blacksmith, Mirza Fandi Abdulkarim, joined the ranks of the Party in the year 1946, and in the year 1960 and at the Fifth Congress he was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Biography

Mirza Abdulkarim Mustafa was born in Erbil in the year 1914. Initially, he was placed in religious education. In the year 1931, he completed the primary stage in the town of Koya, and in the same year, he was admitted to the Baghdad Science House (Dar al-Ulum). Later, he was appointed as a clerk at the Koya Court of First Instance, and then he worked as a clerk in the Peace Courts of Pishdar and Erbil, the Kirkuk Court, the Kirkuk Criminal Court, and the Shaqlawa Court.

In the year 1958, he was the Deputy President of the Settlement of Rights Court in Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, and later he was transferred to the Erbil Court. In the year 1960, he was appointed as an assistant to the President of the Agricultural Land Settlement Court in Nasiriyah, and later he was transferred to Erbil with the same rank. In the year 1975, he was retired from government service. In the summer of 1979, he passed away in Erbil due to a fatal illness and was buried in the Darwish Khidr cemetery in the town of Koya, affiliated with Erbil Governorate. He was proficient in both Kurdish and Arabic languages.

Struggle Record

Mirza Abdulkarim Mustafa joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Resurrection Society in Eastern Kurdistan in the year 1942 and was among the editorial staff of the Blise publication. During the years (1943-1945), he supported the second Barzani revolution. In the year 1946, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the year 1950, he was a clerk at the Erbil Court and, using the Erbil Court typewriter, he secretly printed stencils of the Rizgari newspaper, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the same year, he was the head of the Erbil District Committee and an administrator of the Second Branch Committee. In the year 1951, he was transferred as a clerk to the Kirkuk Court and printed the newspapers and statements of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in his own home in the city of Kirkuk. He was a representative of the Third Congress 1953, Fourth Congress 1959 and Fifth Congress 1960, and in the last congress, he was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

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