Politician Ismail Arif Abdul Ghafur Haji Ali, known as Samko-Sarbast, in the year 1947 and after the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan under the command of General Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) participated in the resistance against the army of the country of Iran, in the year 1959 he was a delegate of the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq in the city of Baghdad, in the year 1960 and in the Fifth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he was a candidate of President Mustafa Barzani for membership in the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the year 1964 and in the Sixth Congress he was elected as a member of the Central Committee and in the first meeting of the Central Committee he became a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the years (1964-1965) he was the secretary of President Mustafa Barzani.

Biography

Ismail Arif Abdul Ghafur Haji Ali is by lineage a descendant of the poet Baba Tahir Hamadani and was born in the year 1924 in Sulaymaniyah, in the year 1930 he began his religious studies in the city of Sulaymaniyah and in the year 1941 he completed the middle stage and an accounting course, in the year 1941 he joined the ranks of the Iraqi Royal Army and in the year 1946 he left the ranks of the Iraqi army with the rank of Sergeant and joined the Republic of Kurdistan, he passed away on the 16 of February 1999 in Azadi Hospital in the city of Duhok. He was proficient in the Kurdish, English, Arabic, and Persian languages.

Struggle Record

Ismail Arif Abdul Ghafur Haji Ali, in the year 1947 after the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan under the command of General Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) participated in the resistance against the army of the country of Iran and in the same year after the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan he returned to Southern Kurdistan and was imprisoned and tortured on charges of participating in the Republic of Kurdistan and they sentenced him to death, in the year 1958 after the fall of the Iraqi royal regime he was released from prison by the Free Officers and joined the United Kurdistan Democratic Party and in the year 1959 he was a delegate of the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq in the city of Baghdad and a year later he was a member of the founding committee of the public phase of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq.

In the year 1960 and in the Fifth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party which was held in the city of Baghdad, he was a candidate of President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) for membership in the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the year 1961 he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and in the year 1963 he was the director of the cadre training school in the village of Mawat, belonging to the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate.

In the year 1964 after the large meeting of Mawat, he attempted to form a third faction and later he deemed the President's faction better and joined President General Mustafa Barzani. In the same year and in the Sixth Congress he was elected as a member of the Central Committee and in the first meeting of the Central Committee he became a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and was appointed as a member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the years (1964-1965) he was the secretary of President Mustafa Barzani. Delegate of the Seventh Congresses 1966 and Eighth Congress 1970 of the Party.

In the year 1974 and after the deterioration of relations between the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, for the second time he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and in the years (1975-1976) after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he lived as a refugee in Iran and in the year 1976 after returning to Southern Kurdistan, he was first exiled to Southern Iraq and later to the city of Baghdad and in the year 1982 he was granted permission by the Iraqi government authorities to return to the city of Sulaymaniyah.

In the year 1991 he participated in the uprising of Southern Kurdistan against the regime of Saddam Hussein (1937-2006). He passed away on the 16 of February 1999 in Azadi Hospital in the city of Duhok.

Among his works:

  1. Memoirs - Manuscript.
  2. The play 'Kurdish Girl' - 1991.
  3. Flower of Freedom - 1991.
  4. Diwan of Sarbast - 2017.
Sources:
  1. The passing of one of the militants of the Aylul Revolution, Ismail Arif, into eternity, Khabat Newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 912, Erbil, Friday, 19 February 1999 AD.
  2. Habib Muhammad Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (in key stations) 1946 - 1993, (Duhok - Khabat Press - 1998 AD).
  3. Hassan Latif Al-Zubaidi, Encyclopedia of Iraqi Parties, (Beirut - Al-Aref Institution for Publications - 2007 AD).
  4. Shakib Aqrawi, Years of Ordeal in Kurdistan, the most important political and military events in Kurdistan and Iraq from 1958 to 1980, Second Edition, (Erbil - Manara Press - 2007 AD).
  5. Sha'ban Ali Sha'ban, Some Political and Historical Information, Third Edition, (Erbil - Rojhalat Press - 2013 AD).
  6. Ali Sinjari, The Kurdish Issue and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq, Part Three, (Duhok - Khani Press - 2012 AD).
  7. Ali Sinjari, Pages from the Source of My Memory in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, (Duhok - Khani Press - 2015 AD).
  8. Muhammad Mulla Qadir, Struggle Record: A Brief History of the Party and the Culture of the Immortal Barzani, Second Edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - 2007 AD).
  9. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Volume Three, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Press - 2002 AD).
  10. Brayati Office, Patriotic Personality and Peshmerga of the Aylul Revolution, Ismail Arif has passed away, Brayati Newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - United, Issue 2780, Erbil, Thursday, 18 of February 1999 AD.