Shawkat Ahmed Aziz Ahmed, Known as Engineer Shawkat Akrayi, an engineer and politician, worked in the engineering department of the Voice of Kurdistan Radio in Year 1963, participated in the Koya Congress (First of the People) in Year 1963, and in Year 1966 by the representatives of the Seventh Congress was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Biography‌

Shawkat Ahmed Aziz Ahmed was born in the city of Akre in Year 1927, received his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Leeds in Britain in Year 1956, was appointed as an official in the city of Sulaymaniyah in Year 1957, and began working as a chief engineer in the Ministry of Municipalities of the government of Iraq in Year 1958. At the beginning of Year 1961, he was a member of the delegation of the Iraqi Engineers Syndicate to visit the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. On November 10, 1980, in the city of Baghdad, he was poisoned with thallium by the Intelligence Agency and security of the Iraqi government, and he passed away due to the effects of that poisoning and was buried in the town of Akre. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, and English.

Struggle Record

In Year 1940, he joined the ranks of the Hiwa Party of the Kurd, and in Year 1945, he joined the ranks of the Rizgari Kurd Party. In Year 1945, his house in the city of Baghdad was a hideout for Mirhaj Ahmed Tahir (1911-1988), Known as Akrayi, and through Mohammed Amin Agha Akrayi, he attempted to help him escape to the Barzan region. In Year 1945, due to his support for the Second Barzan Revolution, he was arrested and sentenced to one year of imprisonment in the Central Prison of Baghdad. Shawkat Ahmed Aziz Ahmed joined the ranks of Kurdistan Democratic Party in Year 1946. In January 1949, in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, he was a member of the founding committee of the Kurdish Students Association in Europe. In Year 1959, he was a representative of the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Kurdistan - Iraq, in the city of Baghdad. In Year 1960, he was a representative of the Fifth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Baghdad. In Year 1961, with the help of lawyer Jerjis Fathullah (1920-2006), he secretly printed the Khabat newspaper, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the city of Baghdad. In Year 1962, he was detained for a short period in the General Security Prison of Baghdad. In Year 1963, he was aware of the February 8, 1963 coup against Brigadier General Abdul Karim Qasim (1914-1963).

In Year 1963, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. In Year 1963, he worked in the engineering department of the Voice of Kurdistan Radio. In Year 1963, he participated in the Koya Congress. On March 30, 1963, as a representative of the First Congress of the People, he arrived in the city of Baghdad as a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation for negotiations with the government of the Republic of Iraq. In Year 1963, he was the representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party to the city of Cairo in the Arab Republic of Egypt. In Year 1963, he was a member of the Iraqi National Assembly (Al-Tajammu' al-Qawmi al-Iraqi) in Cairo against the regime of Abdul Karim Qasim. In Year 1963, he met with Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. In Year 1963, together with journalist Eric Rouleau (Rouleau) of the French newspaper Le Monde, they spoke about the Kurdish cause and the Western world. In Year 1964, he was a representative of the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the town of Qaladiza in Sulaymaniyah Governorate. During the years (1964-1966), he was the second official of the Voice of Kurdistan radio station. In Year 1965, he assisted Dana Adams Schmidt in writing the book (Journey Among Brave Men).

In the middle of Year 1965, at the request of the Iraqi government, he was expelled by Egyptian authorities from the city of Cairo. In Year 1965, he sought refuge in the Kingdom of Jordan and was assisted by Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal (1919-1971) to reach the Kingdom of Iran legally with a Jordanian passport. From there, he went to the liberated areas of the Aylul Revolution. In Year 1966, he was appointed by the Central Committee as a member of the preparatory committee for the Seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party . In Year 1966, he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Seventh Congress . In Year 1966, he was made the official of the Third Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In May 1967, he was on the editorial board of the Brayati newspaper, a supplement to the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Ta'akhi published in Baghdad. In Year 1967, he was one of the founders of the Arabic-language newspaper (Al-Ta'akhi) . On Saturday, April 29, 1967, in the first issue of the Arabic-language newspaper (Al-Ta'akhi), he was a member of the editorial board. In the middle of Year 1967, he opened his own engineering office in the city of Baghdad. In Year 1967, he was an assistant director-general in the Ministry of Municipalities of the government of Iraq. In Year 1968, he was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party negotiating delegation to the Iraqi government.

During the years (1968-1971), he was the director-general of rural electricity and small projects in the Ministry of Municipalities of the government of Iraq. In Year 1967, he was on the editorial board of the Brayati magazine in Baghdad. In Year 1970, he was a representative of the Eighth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party He was born in the village of Nawpirdan in Erbil Governorate. On December 8, 1974, by order of the Ba'ath Revolutionary Command Council, he was retired from the rank of Assistant Director General of Water and Electricity Projects at the Ministry of Municipalities. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Socialist Movement, but in 1976 he returned to the Iraq government, and in 1977 he was an advisor to the Minister of Industry and Minerals of the Iraq government. In 1977, he was the Director General of the Samawa Cement Factory (with the intention of keeping him away from the gathering of Kurds in Baghdad). On November 10, 1980, in the city of Baghdad, he was poisoned with thallium by the Intelligence Agency and security of the Iraq government, and he passed away under the influence of that poisoning and was buried in the town of Akre. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, and English.

Source:

1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.