Politician Mustafa Karim Ghafur, known as Mustafa Hamamchi, in the Year 1950 at the First Baghdad Conference was a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , later he defected from the Party and was not prepared to implement the decisions and directives of the Party, in the Year 1953 during the holding of the Third Congress he was requested by the Congress management committee to participate in the Congress but he did not participate and together with Salih Rushdi they established a new organization called the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iraq.

Biography‌

Mustafa Karim Ghafur was born in the Year 1924 in Sulaymaniyah, in the Year 1947 he was accepted into the sports department of the Primary Teachers' House in Baghdad, on 14 February 1993 he was martyred in the explosion of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society warehouse in the city of Sulaymaniyah which had been carried out by the Kirkuk Security belonging to the Ba'ath Party and was buried in the Sheikh Awla cemetery in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages.

Struggle Record

Mustafa Karim Ghafur in the Year 1939 joined the ranks of the Brotherhood Society and in the Year 1941 was a non-commissioned officer in the British Levy Army on the island of Cyprus, in the Year 1946 he joined the ranks of the Party and in the Year 1950 and at the First Baghdad Conference he was a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in the Year 1951 was the director of the secret printing press of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, later he defected from the Party and was not prepared to implement the decisions and directives of the Party and return the printing machine that was in his possession to the Party.

After his departure from the ranks of the Party, he began to reveal the secrets of the Party. In the Year 1953 during the holding of the Third Congress he was requested by the Congress management committee to participate in the Congress but he did not participate and together with Salih Rushdi they established a new organization called the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iraq, which dissolved in the second half of the Year 1952 and most of its members returned to the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

On 14 February 1993 in the explosion of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society warehouse in the city of Sulaymaniyah which had been carried out by the Kirkuk Security belonging to the Ba'ath Party, he was martyred and was buried in the Sheikh Awla cemetery in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages.

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