The jurist, politician, and military figure Arif Tayfur Arif Ali, known as Arif Sheikh Tayfur Sargallui Barzanji, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union in 1959 and joined the ranks of the Party in 1963, and in the same year, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Peshmerga Forces. He was a delegate to the 8th Congress in 1970, and in the 11th Congress in 1993 and the 12th Congress in 1999, he was elected as a member of the Party's Central Committee. In 2010, at the 13th Congress, he was elected as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 2018, he was appointed as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Biography

Arif Tayfur was born in 1945 in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He completed his middle school stages in Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah, and in 1967, he received a Bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Baghdad. In 2004, he was appointed as a member of the Iraqi Interim National Council (Al-Majlis al-Watani al-Mu'aqqat al-Iraqi), and in 2005, he was a candidate for the Kurdistan Alliance list for the Iraqi National Assembly. After being elected, he became the Second Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly. He is proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, English, and Persian.

Struggle Record

 In 1959, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union, and in 1963, he joined the ranks of the Party, and in the same year, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Peshmerga Forces.

He was a delegate to the 8th Congress in 1970, and in the 11th Congress in 1993 and the 12th Congress in 1999, he was elected as a member of the Party's Central Committee. In 2010, at the 13th Congress, he was elected as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 2018, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1970, at the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union, he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Students Union, and a year later, he was made a member of the Secretariat Bureau of the Kurdistan Students Union.

During his work within the ranks of the Party, he held several tasks and responsibilities, such as administrator of the Third Branch Committee in 1973, person responsible for the Fourth Branch Committee in Sulaymaniyah in 1994, person responsible for the Fifth Branch Committee in Baghdad in 2003, person responsible for the Fourth Branch Committee in Sulaymaniyah in 2004, and head of the Leadership Council of Sulaymaniyah-Halabja Province in 2018.  

In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution , he went to the country of Iran as a refugee, and there he was tasked by President Masoud Barzani with preparations for the Gulan Revolution . In 1976, he was a member of the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Berlin Conference), and after the martyrdom of Lieutenant Said Karim, he took his place and became a member of the Political Bureau.

In 2004, he was appointed as a member of the Iraqi Interim National Council (Al-Majlis al-Watani al-Mu'aqqat al-Iraqi), and in 2005, he was a candidate for the Kurdistan Alliance list for the Iraqi National Assembly. After being elected, he became the Second Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly. In 2015, he was the supervisor of the Kurdistan Peshmerga Forces on the Khazir front (Duhok) against the ISIS forces.

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