Muhammad Tahir Abdullah Mustafa, known as Muhammad Haji Tahir, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Year 1946, was a delegate to the Third Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1953, was a delegate to the Second Baghdad Conference in 1959, and in the same year became a delegate to the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1960, at the Fifth Congress, he became a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the middle of the Year 1963, he was a member of the joint committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Iraqi Communist Party in Khanaqin. In the Year 1964, he participated in the broad Mawet meeting to support the Political Bureau faction.

Biography

Muhammad Tahir Abdullah Mustafa, known as Muhammad Haji Tahir, was born in 1931 in Sulaymaniyah Governorate into a merchant family and was engaged in trade. He is a graduate of the second year of middle school. In 1948, he participated in the Baghdad city demonstration against the Portsmouth Treaty between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Iraq, with the slogan 'Freedom for the imprisoned Barzanis'. In the 1950s, he owned the Mawlawi Radio Shop on Mawlawi Street in Sulaymaniyah. He was proficient in Kurdish, Persian, and Arabic. He passed away on March 13, 2020, in Erbil and was laid to rest in the Sheikh Ahmed Cemetery in Erbil.

Struggle Record

Muhammad Tahir Abdullah Mustafa joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Year 1946. In 1947, he became a member of the Koya District Committee. In 1949, he was the head of the Sulaymaniyah District Committee. In 1953, he was a delegate to the Third Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In June 1954, he was a member of the joint committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Iraqi Communist Party. In 1954, for the election campaign of the Iraqi Chamber of Deputies (1914-2000) for the lawyer Ibrahim Ahmed Fattah, he went to the Qaradagh region with a group of Kurdistan Democratic Party supporters. On his return near Sulaymaniyah, he was arrested by the regime's police at the time and sent to the Saray Sulaymaniyah prison, and later transferred to the Kirkuk prison, and was released on bail after 15 days. In 1956, he was one of the founders of the Penjwen District Committee. In the middle of 1956, he was the liaison point between the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Iraqi Communist Party in Sulaymaniyah. In 1956, he participated in the Saray Gate demonstration to demand permission for Latif Mahmud Saeed (1917-1972), known as Sheikh Latif the Grandson, to perform the funeral prayer for his father's body, but they were heavily fired upon by the police.

In the Year 1958, he was the head of the Sulaymaniyah District Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1959, he was a delegate to the Second Baghdad Conference, and in the same year, he became a delegate to the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1960, at the Fifth Congress, he became a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He became the head of the Sulaymaniyah District Committee, affiliated with the Sulaymaniyah Branch Committee, and in the same year, he became a member of the Sulaymaniyah Peace Committee. In the Year 1961, he lived secretly in Sulaymaniyah and was engaged in organizational and media work. In the Year 1961, he was on the fourth staff of the Branch Committee Two during the supervision of Ali Abdullah as the head of the branch committee. In the Year 1961, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces and held the rank of squad leader in Dolbeshk (Sulaymaniyah). In the Year 1961, he was a commander of the Peshmerga forces in the Mawet region. In the middle of the Year 1963, he was a member of the joint committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Iraqi Communist Party in Khanaqin and was able to resolve the problem between the two sides peacefully. During the years (1963-1964), he was appointed as the head of the branch committee on the third staff of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's Branch Committee Two. In 1963, he was a delegate to the Koya Congress. In 1963, he was a member of the negotiating delegation to the Iraqi government for the purpose of resolving the Kurdish issue. In the Year 1965, after the return of the Political Bureau faction from Hamadan and their pardon by President Mustafa Barzani, he was made the head of Branch Committee Four.

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