Karim Salam Taha, Known as Lieutenant Sayid Karim and Lieutenant Sheikh Karim, an officer and politician, joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces in the Year 1973, in the Year 1974 he was made a battalion commander in the Zmnako force, the same year he was the commander of the Fourth Battalion of the Khabat force, in the Year 1991 at the Qalachwalan Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Independence Party (PASOK) he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau, in the Year 1992 he ran on the Unity list for the Kurdistan National Assembly, in the Year 1992 after the rapprochement of the Kurdistan Democratic Independence Party (PASOK), the Kurdistan Democratic People's Party and the Socialist Party of Kurdistan, at the first congress he became a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Unity Party, in the Year 1992 he was made the head of the military apparatus (Kurdistan Unity Party), in the Year 1993 with the unification of Kurdistan Democratic Party at his eleventh congress he became a member of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Biography

Karim Salam Taha was born in the city of Sulaymaniyah, he is from the family of the sheikhs of the Qadiri Glazarda order of Sulaymaniyah province, he completed his primary, middle and high school stages in the city of Sulaymaniyah, in the Year 1962 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union, in the Year 1968 he was accepted into the College of Arts at the University of Baghdad, in the Year 1970 he was accepted into the Baghdad Police College on the list of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1973 he graduated from the Baghdad Police College with the rank of Second Lieutenant, he was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, Swedish and Persian languages, he passed away on August 2, 1995 in a hospital in the city of Urmia in Eastern Kurdistan and on August 4, 1995, in the presence of President Masoud Barzani, he was laid to rest in the Pirmam cemetery (Erbil). He has a work titled (Eagle of Asia - 1981).

Struggle Record

Karim Salam Taha joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces in the Year 1973, in the Year 1974 he was made a battalion commander in the Zmnako force, the same year he was the commander of the Fourth Battalion of the Khabat force, in the Year 1974 in the Kingdom of Iran he participated in an anti-aircraft artillery course, in the Year 1974 he was severely wounded in the Battle of Amar Agha Pass on the Rawanduz front belonging to Erbil province, in the Year 1975 after the collapse of the September Revolution he headed to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee and after a short period he returned to Southern Kurdistan, in the Year 1975 after his return from the Kingdom of Iran he was exiled to the city of Amara and remained there until the Year 1977, in the month of November of the Year 1978 he became a Peshmerga for the second time and joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the Kurdistan Socialist Party (PASOK), in the Year 1979 he became a member of the PASOK leadership, in the Year 1979 with his unit on the Sardasht front he went to assist the Peshmerga forces of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, in the Year 1983 he was wounded in the Battle of Sinjaqoli belonging to Sulaymaniyah province.

In the Year 1985 as a commander he participated in the Battle of Shiramarr on the border of Halabja province, in the Year 1986 as a member of the leadership of the Kurdistan Socialist Party he signed a peace agreement with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, in the month of February 1987 in the Battle of Qaradagh on the border of Sulaymaniyah province he was severely wounded by the bombing of the Iraqi Air Force, on December 13, 1987 in the village of Gwizila on the border of Sulaymaniyah province, which was the headquarters of the leadership of the Kurdistan Socialist Party (PASOK), he welcomed Ali Bapir Wathman, a member of the leadership of the Islamic Movement in Iraqi Kurdistan and commander of the Hamza force, and they spoke about coordination and joint cooperation, on June 12, 1988 as a representative of the Kurdistan Socialist Party (PASOK) at the Khwakurk headquarters of the Iraqi Communist Party he signed the bylaws and program of the Kurdistan Front, in the Year 1988 he participated in the Epic of Qaywan (Sulaymaniyah) as a commander and was wounded by chemical weapons, in the Year 1988 he participated in the Epic of Khwakurk on the border of Erbil province, on the days of September 3 to 4, 1989 he was the representative of the First Congress of the Kurdistan Jurists Union in Nawkan at the zero point of the international border of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Iraq, on the days of March 8 to 10, 1990 as a representative of the Kurdistan Socialist Party (PASOK) he participated in the broad meeting of the Kurdistan Front, in the Year 1991 he participated actively in the defense of the city of Sulaymaniyah.

In the Year 1991 he took charge of the command of the Battle of Arbat against the ground forces of the Iraqi Army and captured a general of this campaign, in the Year 1991 he participated in the second uprising of Sulaymaniyah, on the days of October 7 to 10, 1991 he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau by the representatives of the Qalachwalan Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Independence Party (PASOK), in the Year 1992 he ran on the Unity list for the Kurdistan National Assembly, in the Year 1992 after the rapprochement of the Kurdistan Democratic Independence Party (PASOK), the Kurdistan Democratic People's Party and the Socialist Party of Kurdistan, at the first congress he became a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Unity Party, in the Year 1992 he was made the head of the military apparatus (Kurdistan Unity Party), in the Year 1993 at the eleventh congress after the unification of the Kurdistan Unity Party and the Party he became a member of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the years (1993-1994) he was the head of the Fourth Branch Committee, on Wednesday, October 6, 1993 at the Bashmakh border crossing on the border of Sulaymaniyah province as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and head of the Fourth Branch Committee of Sulaymaniyah he welcomed the procession of President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) and Idris Barzani (1944-1987) who were on their way from the Islamic Republic of Iran to their final resting place in the village of Barzan belonging to Erbil province.

In the Year 1995, he was appointed as the commander of the Ziyarat axis (Erbil). He participated in the battles of the Year 1974 at Garu Omar Agha and Erbil, the Year 1980 at Ahmed Burna, the Year 1980 at Saqqez in Eastern Kurdistan against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Year 1983 at Samaquli and Erbil, the Year 1987 in the epic of Qaywan, Mawat, and Sulaymaniyah, and the Year 1991 at Arabat and Sulaymaniyah. On July 11, 1995, he commanded the counter-attack forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Ziyarat (Erbil). On July 31, 1995, on the Ziyarat front in Erbil Governorate, he was severely wounded by bullets from the forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. On August 2, 1995, he passed away in a hospital in the city of Urmia in Eastern Kurdistan.

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