Dr. Cercîs Hesen Ebdula, known as (Dr. Cercîs), was born in 1944 in the village of Xenis, which belongs to the Sheikhan district in the Mosul governorate. He completed his primary, middle, and high school education there. In 1967, he was admitted to the College of Arts at the University of Mosul. In 1971, he went to the Soviet Union for studies and resigned from his membership in the Secretariat of the Kurdistan Students Union. Later, he went to the Republic of Austria and returned to East Kurdistan in 1979. From (1996 - 1999) he was the Minister of Education of the Kurdistan Regional Government. He passed away in 2024 due to illness. He was an expert in the Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, German, and Persian languages.
Work History
In 1967, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union. On July 15, 1970, he was elected by the congress delegates as Deputy President of the Kurdistan Students Union at the (sixth congress). In 1971, he was a member of the Mosul district committee of the Nineveh Branch of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1979, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the (ninth congress). From (1980 - 1985), he was the head of the First Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1980, he jointly commanded the Bêgofa battle on the border of the Duhok governorate with the forces of the Iraqi Communist Party. On July 16, 1985, he was appointed as a member of the organization department and a member of the relations department. In 1983, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau by the members of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1985, he was appointed as the head of the first branch committee for the twelfth worker. At the end of 1985, he was a teacher of "History of the Kurdish Liberation Movement in the Twentieth Century" at the eighth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre institute in the village of Rajan in East Kurdistan.
In 1986, he was a member of the Central Inspection Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1988, as a leader, he participated in the Xwakurk epic on the border of the Erbil governorate against the ground force offensive of the Iraqi army. In 1989, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the tenth congress. In 1989, at the first meeting of the Central Committee, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau. On December 13, 1990, he was appointed as the head of the financial committee. At the beginning of 1992, he was appointed as the supervisor of the branch for the twenty-fifth worker of the Second Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On March 19, he participated in the meeting of the Kurdistan Front with the aim of determining the date of the elections for the Kurdistan National Council (Kurdistan Parliament) and the economic and security situation of South Kurdistan.
At the beginning of 1992, he participated in the meeting of the Kurdistan Front on behalf of the Kurdistan Democratic Party with the aim of establishing the high committee for supervising the elections of the Kurdistan National Council. During 1992, he was a candidate for the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Yellow List) for the Kurdistan National Council. On Wednesday, August 11, 1993, he published articles in the newspaper Xebat, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1993, he was the owner of the license for the magazine Alternatîv. In 1993, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party ـ United, he was elected at the eleventh congress. In 1993, at the first meeting of the Central Committee, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau. In 1994, he was the owner of the license for the magazine Kadîr (second session), which is a theoretical magazine of the Kurdistan Democratic Party ـ United. On May 4, 1994, at the joint meeting of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, he signed the ceasefire and the normalization of the situation in South Kurdistan. On Wednesday, November 9, 1994, at the headquarters of the Secretariat, the lawyer Celal Husamedîn Nuredîn (1933 - 2017), known as Jalal Talabani in the city of Erbil, he was present at the joint meeting of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party ـ United and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which was with the aim of ending the tensions between the two parties.
On February 8, 1996, with the aim of participating in the seventeenth anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, he led the delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party ـ United, he visited the city of Tehran. On May 27, 1996, together with the engineer Mihemed Mehmud Ebdulrehman (1933 - 2004), known as Sami Abdulrahman in the town of Pirmam, which belongs to the Erbil governorate, he welcomed a delegation from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. On Friday, January 8, 1999, in Pirmam, with President Masoud Barzani he welcomed Jalal Talabani and the delegation with him. In 1999, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the eleventh congress. In 2000, he became the Head of the Board of Financial Audit of the Kurdistan Regional Government (fourth session). In 2005, he was appointed as a member of the central inspection and audit board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 2010, he was a delegate to the thirteenth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Erbil.
His works:
1 - Turkey in American Strategy after the Fall of the Shah 1990.
2 - Kurdistan al Iraq al muletehab 1984 - translation.
Source :1 - Archive of the Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia.
2 - Aso Karim - Memory of a Peshmerga and some notes - Part two - Birayati newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - number 1655, Erbil - Thursday 27 May 1993 - page 6.
3 - Aso Karim - Voice of Kurdistan Radio and some notes, part two - Birayati newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - number 1656 Erbil - Friday 28 May 1993 - page 6.
4 - Ashtî, receiving a high-level delegation from the Kurdistan Communist Party - Gulan al Arabi magazine - Gulan Foundation for Culture and Media - issue 61, sixth year Erbil 30 June 2001 - page 6.
5 - Awder Sheikh Omar, the return of refugees continues - Kurdistani Nwe newspaper - organ of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - number 2494, tenth year - Sulaymaniyah, Monday 2 July 2001 - page 1.
6 - Awder Sheikh Omar - The high committee for relations between the P.U.K. and the K.D.P. met in Salahaddin - Kurdistani Nwe newspaper, organ of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - number 2440, tenth year - Sulaymaniyah, Monday 30 April 2001 - page 1.
7 - Awder Sheikh Omar - The high committee for peace met - Kurdistani Nwe newspaper, organ of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - number 2506 - tenth year, Sulaymaniyah, Monday 16 July 2001 - page 1.
8 - Awder Sheikh Omar - Both delegations of the political bureau of the P.U.K. and K.D.P. met - Kurdistani Nwe newspaper, organ of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - number 2521 - tenth year, Sulaymaniyah, Thursday 2 August 2001 - page 1.
9 - Awder Sheikh Omar - Both delegations of the political bureau of the P.U.K. and K.D.P. met - Kurdistani Nwe newspaper, organ of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - number 2512, tenth year, Sulaymaniyah, Monday 23 July 2001 - page 1.
10 - Awder Sheikh Omar - The delegation of the political bureau of the Union and the Party met - Kurdistani Nwe newspaper, organ of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - number 2620, tenth year, Sulaymaniyah, Monday 26 November 2001 - page 1.
11 - Awder Sheikh Omar - The delegation of both political bureaus of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party met - Kurdistani Nwe newspaper, organ of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, number 2609, tenth year, Sulaymaniyah, Tuesday 13 November 2001 - page 1.
12 - Ahmed Sharif Lek - Interpretation of historical events - volume two, ( Erbil ـ Rojhilat printing house 2019 ) - page 102.
13 - Asad Edo - Continuing or the uprising of the revolution - Birayati newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, number 1251, Erbil, Saturday 22 May 1993 - page 3.
14 - Ismail Tenya - The Socialist Party of Kurdistan, rise and fall and spread - ( Erbil ـ Rojhilat printing house 2019 ) - page 26.
14 - Arnold Wilson - The Iraqi Revolution - translation and commentary by Ja'far al-Khayyat ( Beirut ـ Dar al-Kitab printing house - 1971 ) - page 197 - 199.
15 - New Issue - Voice of Kurdistan newspaper - The Kurdistan Democratic Party ـ Iraq / Lebanon office, issue 33, mid-August 1990 - page 11.
16 - Election of members of the central committee for the Kurdistan Democratic Party ـ Iraq, Gulan al Arabi magazine, Gulan Foundation for Culture and Media - issue 41, fourth year, Erbil 31 October 1999 - page 15.
17 - Election of a new central committee composed of 31 members and 9 reserve members - Khabat newspaper, mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, issue 946, Erbil, Friday 15 October 1999 - page 15.
18 - The Honorable Minister of Education met with a delegation from our Union's secretariat - Zeng newspaper, Kurdistan Students Union, number 4 second cycle, Erbil - Salahaddin University printing house, Sunday 7 November 1998 - page 1.
18 - Kurdistan Democratic Party, President, number 13 - 10 January 1990 - page 6.
19 - Kurdistan Democratic Party, political bureau, decision, number 1075 - 14 November 1986 - page 1.
20 - Kurdistan Democratic Party, political bureau, to all sections of the militant P.B., number 6775 - 18 July 1985 - page 1.
21 - Jarjis Hassan, strategy of national security and the Kurdish liberation movement - Khabat newspaper, mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, issue 687, Wednesday, 11 August 1993 - page 5.
22 - Habib Mohammed Karim - history of the Kurdistan Democratic Party ـ Iraq (in main stations) 1946 - 1993, ( Duhok ـ Khabat printing house 1998) - page 159 - 174 - 182.
23 - Hussein Osman Kelesh (Babe Kovan), A Peshmerga life and memories (1961 - 1991), ( Duhok ـ Khani printing house 2015) - page 73 - 128.
24 - Hama Salih Farhadi - a page from the history of the Kurdistan Students Union - Peshkewtin newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Students and Democratic Youth Union, number 27, beginning of July 1992 - page 2.
25 - A request from the general directorate of media, Birayati newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party ـ United, number 2019, Monday 15 August 1994 - page 4.
26 - History of the Party's cadre courses, from mountain to city, ( Erbil ـ Center for Research and Evaluation and the Party Academy ـ Rojhilat printing house 2019) - page 68.
27- Sasan Awni - Kurdistan Students Union is an aspect of struggle and history, ( Erbil ـ secretariat bureau of the Kurdistan Students Union ـ Ministry of Education printing house 1998) - page 32.
28 - Suleiman Mustafa Hassan - Kurds and the first experience, (Erbil – Karo printing house 2017) - pages 28 - 31 - 69 - 74 - 75 - 102 - 270.
29 - President Barzani received Mr. Talabani - Birayeti newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Yekgirti, issue 2753, Erbil, Saturday 9 January 1999 - page 1.
30 - Sha'ban Ali Sha'ban - some political and historical information, third edition, (Erbil – Rojhilat printing house 2013) - pages 118 - 121 - 124 - 126.
31 - Abdalhadi Rahman Suleiman - azafa axrî alî xezîn al zakiriye, Gulan al Arabi magazine, Gulan al a'lamiye foundation, issue 20, Erbil, Ministry of Culture printing house 25 January 1998 - page 63.
32 - Abdalhadi Rahman Qassab - a page from the history of the Kurdistan Students Union, Branch of Nineveh 1967 - 1970 (Erbil – Cultural and Media Office of Branch Two 2015) page 24.
33 - Irfan Aziz Aziz, congresses and conferences of the Kurdistan Students Union (Erbil – project of writing the history of the Kurdistan Students Union – Rojhilat printing house 2012) pages 60, 63.
34 - Ali Sinjari, al qeziye al Kurdiye wel hizb al Ba'as al Arabi al Iştiraki fi al Iraq, part three, (Duhok – Khani printing house 2012) page 168 - 170.
35 - Omer Osman - Life of a Kurd, volume one, (Erbil – Haji Hashim printing house 2005) page 285.
36 - Fihrist Tayib Abdalle, Kurdistan Students Union (March - 1970 April 1991) a historical political – study, unpublished master's thesis, University of Zakho – College of Education 2012 - page 4.
37 - Ferhad Awni, my days passed like this - volume one, (Erbil – Rojhilat printing house 2016) pages 245, 248, 290.
38 - Ferhad Awni, the Kurdistan Students Union has always been the leader of the students of Kurdistan, Birayeti newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Yekgirti, issue 1876, Friday 18 February 1994 - page 3.
39 - Fazledin Ahmed Nerweyi, migration is the experience of people who lived for years far from their people and homeland, (Duhok – Khani printing house 2008) page 85.
40 - Feysel Khalil, political maturity within the party, Sivil magazine, issue 122, Erbil, Roksana printing house, Saturday 25 February 2012 page 11.
41 - Qaeme basma al ceraed altî acazetha Wezara al seqafiye fî hikumiye aqlîm Kurdistan minz am 1993, Xebat newspaper, the official voice of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – al muhed, issue 870, Erbil, Friday 17 April 1998 - page 19.
42 - Karwan Mehwi - congresses of our party the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Shirove magazine, central office of research and evaluation, issue 14, Erbil, Haji Hashim printing house, autumn 2010 - page 21.
43 - The meeting of the two political bureaus and with the presence of Mr. Masoud Barzani was organized, Gulan weekly, issue 30, Erbil, 10 November 1994 - page 1.
44 - Congress, announces the results of the election of the central committee of our party, Birayeti newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Yekgirti, issue 1729, Erbil, Friday 27 August 1993 - page 1.
45 - The 12th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party elected a new central committee, Birayeti newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, issue 2948, Erbil, Sunday 17 October 1999 - page 3.
46 - Branch Two, branch two in half a century of struggle, (Erbil – Aras printing house 2010) - page 42.
47 - Loqman Xerib, martyr Haji Abdulrahman - a phase of much giving in the history of the student and youth movement, (Erbil – Rewshenbiri printing house 2003) - page 77.
48 - List of names of candidates of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the National Council in Kurdistan, Peshkewtin newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Students and Youth Union – Iraq, issue 26 May 1992 - page 4.
49 - Mihemed Haji Mahmud, diary of a Peshmerga 1976 - 1996, volume four, (Sulaymaniyah – Dilan printing house - 2009) - page 520.
50 - Mihemed Mela Qadir, xebatname short history of the party and the culture of the Immortal Barzani, second edition, (Erbil — Aras Printing and Publishing Agency 2007) - page 97.
51 - The Sixth Conference of the Kurdistan Students Union of Iraq, Al-Taakhi newspaper, issue 496, Baghdad, Dar Al-Jahiz Press, Monday, July 27, 1970 - page 3.
52 - Hashim Ramadan - The Burned Kurds, Part One, (Erbil — Al-Haji Hashim Press 2005) - page 138.
53 - Kurdistan Region, Birayeti newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, issue 2187, Friday, September 27, 1992 - page 1.
54 - Kurdistan Region of Iraq, National Council of Iraqi Kurdistan, National Council of Iraqi Kurdistan protocol 1992 - volume thirteen, (Erbil — Ministry of Culture Press 1998) - page 86.
55 - Kurdistan Region of Iraq, National Council of Iraqi Kurdistan, protocol, volume twenty-five, (Erbil — Ministry of Education Press 2001) - page 337, 339.
56 - The delegation of our party's leadership participated in the ceremony of the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran - Birayeti newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party — Unified, issue 2157, Pirmam resort, Thursday, February 15, 1996 - page 1- 11.
57 - A delegation from our party participated in the ceremony of the celebration of the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran - Birayeti newspaper, issue 2156, Pirmam, Wednesday, February 7, 1996 - page 1.