Officer, economist, and politician Mohammed Musa Sadiq, known as (Mohammed Fayli). In 1950, at the first Baghdad conference, he was elected by the conference delegates as a Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party. In 1953, he was on the Founding Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. In the same year, at the first congress of the Kurdistan Students Union, he was elected as a Member of the Executive Committee. In 1953, he became the first Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. After the Mawet conference, he left the Party. He passed away in 2007 in Baghdad.

 

Biography

Mohammed Musa Sadiq was born in 1927 in Baghdad. He was from a family of Feyli Kurdish merchants, and he himself was involved in the trading business. In 1953, he received a bachelor's degree from the College of Commerce and Economics at the University of Baghdad. He passed away in 2007 in the city of Baghdad and was buried in the Najaf cemetery. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, and English.

Career

Mohammed Musa Sadiq made contact with the ranks of the Kurdish Democratic Party in 1947 through Dr. Jaafar Mohammed Karim (1910 - 2000). In 1950, at the first conference in the city of Baghdad, he was elected by the conference delegates as a Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party, and after Dr. Jaafar Fayli, he is considered the second Feyli Kurd to be in the leadership of the Kurdish Democratic Party.

 

He was a Delegate to the second (1951), third (1953), fourth (1959), and fifth (1960) congresses of the KDP. In 1953, he was on the Founding Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union in the city of Baghdad and became the first Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union, and in the same year, at the first congress of the Kurdistan Students Union, he was elected as a Member of the Executive Committee.

 

In 1959, he participated in the second Baghdad conference of the Kurdistan United Democratic Party in the city of Baghdad and voted against Hamza Abdullah regarding their remaining until the fourth congress of the KDP. In 1964, during the splits within the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he ceased his party activities.

Source:

1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.

2- History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Congresses and Conferences (Programs and Internal Regulations), Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board, Volume One, (Erbil - Roksana Press - 2021).

3- Mahdi Mohammed Qadir, Political Developments in Iraqi Kurdistan 1945 - 1958, (Sulaymaniyah - Kurdistan Strategic Studies Center 2005).

4- Habib Mohammed Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (Key Stages) 1946 - 1993, (Duhok - Xebat Press 1998).

5- Newzad Fuad Rashid, A Bouquet of Flowers on the History of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union, (Erbil - Welat Press 2014).

6- Mam Jalal, On the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the founding of the Kurdistan Students Union, Al-Ittihad Newspaper, The Central Newspaper of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Issue 306, Seventh Year, Sulaymaniyah, Friday, February 19, 1999.