Biography

Omar Mustafa was born in 1923 in the Qalat neighborhood of the city of Koya, affiliated with Erbil province. He is a graduate of primary and middle school in Koya and a graduate of the College of Law in Baghdad (1946-1951).

Struggle Record

Omar Mustafa joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1948 in Baghdad. In 1951, at the Second Congress of the Party in Baghdad, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the votes of the congress representatives. In the same year, he was imprisoned for a period due to political activity, but was released after a short time.

In 1953, at the Third Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and later became a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1956, he was appointed as a member of the Central Committee. In 1959, by the representatives of the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he was elected as a member of the Party's Central Committee.

He was among the 60-person group requesting an official license for the Kurdistan Democratic Party to operate in the public phase. In 1960, at the Fifth Congress he was elected by the votes of the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee and then the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1961, he was an envoy of the Party's Political Bureau to President Mustafa Barzani with the purpose of informing him about the Iraqi government's attack on Kurdistan and conveying the position of the Political Bureau in this regard.

 In 1962, he was among the participants of the broad meeting of the wanderers of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in that same year, he participated in the Battle of Rayat Citadel. In 1963, he was a candidate of the revolution leadership for holding a high position in the Iraqi government. He was a participant in the Koya General Congress of 1963 and was later appointed as a member of the Party's negotiating delegation with the Iraqi government. He was among the organizers of the Mawata meeting held in April 1964. In that same year, 1964, he joined the group of Jalal Talabani – Ibrahim Ahmad, and at the Sixth Congress, he was removed from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the majority vote of the congress representatives. On January 29, 1992, he passed away in the city of Sulaymaniyah and was buried in the city of Koya. He was proficient in Arabic and English.

Source:

-Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.