Politician Salih Haydar Asim, known as Salih Haydari and Bakhtiar, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Year 1957 and was appointed as a member of the Political Bureau of the Party. During the years (1957-1958), he was on the editorial board of Khabat newspaper, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In Year 1959, at the second conference in Baghdad, he was suspended from membership in the Party leadership due to leftist tendencies, and in the same year, at the Fourth Congress he was removed from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iraq due to leftist tendencies. In Year 1963, he rejoined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces and became a member of the editorial board of the Voice of Kurdistan of Iraq radio during the Aylul Revolution. In Year 1968, he was the editor-in-chief of Kadr magazine, an organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party . In Year 1971, he was a member of the editorial board of Al-Ta'akhi newspaper.

Biography

Salih Haydar Asim was born in Year 1922 in the city of Erbil and is from the Haydari family. His uncle, Ibrahim Effendi, held the rank of Sheikh al-Islam in the Ottoman Empire in 1919 and was appointed Minister of Awqaf during the monarchy in Iraq. His mother, Fazila Wali Chalabi (1898-1983), was from a merchant family in Erbil and was a relative of the martyr Khayrullah Abdulkarim. In 1940, he completed his secondary education at the Baghdad Secondary School, and in the same year, he was admitted to the Higher Teachers' College in Baghdad. In 1942, he left his studies and was appointed as an employee of the Baghdad Railways. In the same year, he was transferred to the Erbil Court of First Instance, and in 1943, he was transferred to the Baghdad Court.

In 1943, he was admitted to the Law Department of the College of Law in Baghdad, but was deprived of his studies due to political activities. During the years (1947-1948), he was imprisoned by the authorities of the Iraqi monarchy and was detained and under surveillance in the prisons of Karkh in Baghdad, the Criminal Investigation Department in the city of Baghdad, the Central Prison of Baghdad, Kut, and Nugra Salman.

In Year 1961, he completed his law degree at the University of Baghdad and was accepted into the Reserve College of the Iraqi Army as a reserve officer, attaining the rank of reserve second lieutenant. He was proficient in the Kurdish and Arabic languages.

Career‌

Salih Haydar Asim joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Year 1957 and was appointed as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Third Unification) and was active under the pseudonym Bakhtiar. In 1957, he was appointed as the head of the Second Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. During the years (1957-1958), he was on the editorial board of Khabat newspaper, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1958, he was a founding member of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate and was the licensee and editor-in-chief of Rizgari magazine.

In Year 1959, at the second conference in Baghdad, he was suspended from membership in the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party due to leftist tendencies, and in the same year, at the Fourth Congress of the Party, he was removed from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iraq due to leftist tendencies.

In Year 1961, he completed his law degree at the University of Baghdad and was accepted into the Reserve College of the Iraqi Army as a reserve officer, attaining the rank of reserve second lieutenant.

In Year 1963, he rejoined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces and became a member of the editorial board of the Voice of Kurdistan of Iraq radio during the Aylul Revolution. In Year 1968, he was the editor-in-chief of Kadr magazine, an organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In Year 1969, he distanced himself from the Aylul Revolution and, with the help of lawyers Awni Yusuf Ahmed (1908-1988) and Hamid Osman Abu Bakr (1927-1993), they founded the Rizgari Party, but after the March 11, 1970 Agreement, they dissolved this party.

In Year 1974, he turned his back on the Aylul Revolution and was appointed as a member of the Central Committee in the puppet party that the Ba'ath Party of Iraq had established. In Year 1990, he returned to the city of Erbil, and on August 6, 2001, he passed away and was buried in the Sheikhalla cemetery in the city of Erbil.

Among his works:

  1. Fi al-Din wa al-Dawla, manuscript.
  2. Kurdistan khilal a'wam al-harb al-'alamiyya al-thaniya 1939-1945, manuscript.
  3. Rihlat al-Mata'ib 1947-1980, manuscript.
  4. Al-'Alaqa al-Wataniyya wa al-Mas'ala al-Kurdiyya 1969-1975, manuscript.
  5. Mudhakkarat wa lamhat min ta'rikh al-haraka al-wataniyya wa al-thawriyya fi Kurdistan al-Iraq, manuscript.
  6. Mudhakkarat wa lamhat min ta'rikh al-haraka al-wataniyya wa al-thawriyya fi Kurdistan wa al-Iraq, manuscript.
Sources:
  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.
  2. Aziz Hassan al-Barzani, Al-Haraka al-Qawmiyya al-Kurdiyya al-Tahruriyya fi Kurdistan al-Iraq 1939-1945, (Duhok - Dar Spirez for Printing and Publishing - Ministry of Education Press - 2002).
  3. Mahdi Muhammad Qadir, Pishehata siyasiyekani Kurdistani Iraq 1945-1958, (Sulaymaniyah - Kurdistan Center for Strategic Studies - 2005).
  4. I'dad Mumtaz al-Haydari, Mukhtarat min mudhakkarat Salih al-Haydari, Second Edition, (Sulaymaniyah - Ranj Press - 2004).
  5. Jabbar Jabbari, Ta'rikh al-Sahafa al-Kurdiyya fi al-Iraq, (Baghdad - General Directorate of Kurdish Culture - Al-Umma Press - 1975).
  6. Habib Muhammad Karim, Ta'rikh al-Hizb al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdistani-al-Iraq (fi mahattat ra'isiyya) 1946-1993, (Duhok - Khabat Press - 1998).
  7. Salih al-Haydari, Mukhtarat min mudhakkarat Salih al-Haydari, Second Edition, (Sulaymaniyah - Ranj Press - 2004).
  8. Ali Abdullah, Mezhuy Partii Dimokrati Kurdistan-Iraq ta bastni kongrey seyemi, (No location - 1968).
  9. Mumtaz Haydari, Haydariname, Volume One, (Erbil - Mumtaz Haydari Library and Archive - Rojhalat Press - 2018).