Politician Adham Osman Sheikh Ahmed Sheikh Muhammad, known as Adham Barzani, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1976, and in 2010 at the thirteenth congress he was elected as a member of the Party's Leadership Council, and in 2016 he was made the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's Sulaymaniyah Provincial Leadership Council.

Biography

Adham Barzani was born in the city of Erbil in the year 1962 and is from the family of the sheikhs of the Barzan Tekkiye and is the grandson of Sheikh Ahmed Barzani (1892-1969). In 1969, he went to school in the village of Barzan, and in 1974, he completed the sixth grade of primary school in the city of Baghdad and is a graduate of the third grade of middle school. He is proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian languages.

Struggle Record

Adham Barzani joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1976, and in 1980, as a refugee, he headed to the country of Iran and lived there until the uprising of Southern Kurdistan in 1991.

In 1980, as a Peshmerga of the Gulan Revolution he joined the right wing of the 2nd Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 1981, he was the head of the Iranian branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union.

He was one of the founders of the Kurdish Hezbollah, and later a wing separated under the name of the Revolutionary Kurdish Hezbollah, and he is known as the leader of this wing. In 2003, he dissolved his party and joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

During the years (2004-2008), he was the head of the Tribal Affairs Office affiliated with the Office of the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and during the years (2005-2009), he was a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly on the Kurdistan Democratic Party list.

In 2010 at the thirteenth congress he was elected as a member of the Party's Leadership Council, and in 2016 he was made the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's Sulaymaniyah Provincial Leadership Council.

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