Biography

Omar Sharif Abdullah was born in 1941 in Kirkuk Governorate. He completed his primary and middle school stages in the city of Sulaymaniyah and his high school stage in the city of Kirkuk. He is a high school graduate. In 1958, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union.

Struggle Record

Omar Sharif Abdullah joined the ranks of the Party in 1958. In 1959, he was the head of the Kirkuk Workers' Union. In the Year 1961, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces, and in the same year, he participated in the Khalobazian battle on the border of Kirkuk Governorate against the ground forces of the Iraqi army. In the Year 1962, he participated in the Kirkuk city campaign. In the Year 1964, he stood against the decisions of the broad Mawet meeting that had been organized by the Political Bureau group of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and supported President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979).

In early June 1964, he was elected as a member of the preparatory committee for the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the Year 1964, at the Sixth Congress, he became a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which was nominated by President Mustafa Barzani . In the Year 1964, he was made the head of the Fourth Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the same year, he was designated as the head of the Third Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the Year 1964, in the city of Kirkuk, he participated in the burial of the martyr Sayed Wali Bicycle-chi, one of the members of the Third Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, who was killed by racist Turkmen with the cooperation of the Kirkuk Security Directorate of the Iraqi government, and he recited a poem at the martyr's grave. Despite the fact that a reward of ten thousand dinars had been placed by the Iraqi authorities for his arrest, in the Year 1964, he was a representative of the Qaladize Congress (Second of the People), and in the same year, he was designated as a member of the Revolution Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan.

 He participated in the battles of Zanbur and the Zangana area on the border of Kirkuk Governorate against the ground forces of the Iraqi army. In the Year 1965, on foot and for the purpose of strengthening the organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and without guards, he toured all areas of Sulaymaniyah and Kirkuk governorates. In April 1966, by the group of Ibrahim Ahmad — Jalal Talabani and by the plot of the commander of the Qaradagh force affiliated with the Third Army, who had turned against the Aylul Revolution and had joined the regime and the Iraqi army, he was detained along with a group of his comrades in the village of Qirge on the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. On June 12, 1966, by the gunmen of the group of Ibrahim Ahmad — Jalal Talabani he was taken as a prisoner to the village of Krzhe on the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate, executed, and his grave is still unknown, and it is not known where he was martyred. On August 16, 2018, President Masoud Barzani awarded him the Medal of the Immortal Barzani, and instead of him, it was given to his daughter named Jiyan Omar Sharif, who was a poet. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, and Turkmen languages.

Sources:

  1. Archive of the Encyclopedia of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. 

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  6. David McDowall, A Modern History of the Kurds, (Beirut - Dar al-Farabi - 2004), p. 484.

  7. Tawfiq Mala Sadiq, My Memories of the Days of Party Work, Peshmerga Life, and My Exile, Second Edition, (Erbil - Shahab Printing House - 1996), p. 92.

  8. Shakib Aqrawi, Years of Ordeal in Kurdistan: The Most Important Political and Military Events in Kurdistan and Iraq from 1958 to 1980, Second Edition, (Erbil - Manara Printing House - 2007), p. 157.

  9. Martyr Omar Sharif Zangana, Khabat Newspaper, Organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 632, Erbil, Sunday, August 16, 1992, p. 5.

  10. Martyr Comrade "Omar Sharif" the Leader, Brayati Newspaper, Organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - United, Issue 2334, Erbil, Wednesday, May 21, 1997, p. 6.