Biography

Ali Abdullah Ali, known as (Ali Kurresh and Ali Hejar), was born in 1942 in the city of Erbil. He completed his primary and secondary education in the same city. In 1957, he was accepted into the Primary Teachers' Institute of Erbil. He is a 1962 graduate of the Erbil Teachers' Institute. In 1962, he was a member of the founding committee of the Kurdistan Teachers Union. In 1962, he was a representative at the First Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union. In 1962, he was responsible for the Erbil branch of the Kurdistan Teachers Union. In 1962, he was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Denge Mamosta". In 1962, he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Rejne".

In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he headed to the Kingdom of Iran. In 1979, he received a bachelor's degree in law from Mustansiriyah University in the city of Baghdad. On November 24, 1983, he was executed in Kirkuk prison, and his body was buried in an unknown location by Iraqi government officials. He knew Kurdish, Arabic, and English.

Work History

In 1957, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1958, representing the Kurdistan Students Union in the city of Erbil, he welcomed President Mustafa Barzani (1903 - 1979). In 1962, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. In 1963, he became a member of the Erbil Regional Committee affiliated with the Second Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1964, representing the Second Branch Committee, he participated in the Mawet meeting, but he did not share the views of the Political Bureau faction against President Mustafa Barzani . In 1964, he was a representative at the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1964, he was a member of the twelve-member negotiating delegation of the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which, with the approval of President Mustafa Barzani , went to the Political Bureau side with the aim of their participation in the sixth congress, but due to the insistence of the Political Bureau faction on not participating, the delegation was not successful in its mission.

In December 1965, he was a member of the committee for collecting taxes from the wealthy of the city of Erbil for the Peshmerga forces of the September Revolution on the Erbil border, and he was successful in this task. On February 10, 1965, as the person responsible for the Erbil Regional Committee, he assisted Ismail Aziz Mustafa, known as Sheikh Aziz Mela Aziz, the person responsible for the Second Branch Committee, for the success of the Erbil city market strike aimed at pressuring the Iraqi government, which was distancing itself from implementing the June 1966 agreement, and this strike ended successfully.

In 1965, he became the person responsible for the Balek Regional Committee affiliated with the Second Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In February 1966, he was a representative at the Second Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union. In mid-1966, he was appointed by the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party as a member of the Preparatory Committee for the 7th Congress. In 1966, he was a representative at the Eighth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1967, he became the person responsible for the Farmers' Regional Committee of the Erbil Plain affiliated with the Second Branch Committee. In 1968, he was on the editorial board of the magazine "Sefin", the organ of the Second Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1968, he participated in the battle of Bestane and Kani Bizre on the border of Erbil Governorate. In 1970, in the twelfth session, during the tenure of Faris Hemed Bawe (1933 - 1995), who is known as Faris Bawe , he became an administrator of the Second Branch Committee. In 1970, he was a member of the Erbil branch of the Kurdish Writers Union. In 1970, he was elected by the congress representatives as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Eighth Congress). At the end of 1970, for the first time in the twelfth staff of the Second Branch Committee, during the tenure of Faris Hemed Bawe, he became an administrator of the Second Branch Committee and the person responsible for the workers and farmers section. At the beginning of 1973, for the second time, he was appointed as an administrator in the session of the Second Branch Committee, during the tenure of Mihemed Qadir Ehmed (1934 - 2019), who is known as Mihemedê Mela Qadir. In 1973, he became an administrator of the Third Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On February 1, 1974, he was a representative at the Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union in the city of Sulaymaniyah.

In 1974, he was a teacher of the curriculum and internal regulations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and its congresses in the sixth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's cadre training school in the village of Zinewey Shexi, affiliated with Erbil Governorate. In 1974, he was the person responsible for the Organization Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1983, due to his connection with the Socialist Party of Kurdistan, he was arrested by the intelligence agency of the regime of Saddam Hussein (1937 - 2006), who is known as Saddam Tikriti, and after his arrest, he was subjected to severe torture. On November 24, 1983, he was executed in Kirkuk prison, and his body was buried in an unknown location by Iraqi government officials. On Saturday, April 9, 1994, the Erbil Second Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Unified organized a mourning ceremony for him.

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