Biography

Abdullah Ismail Ahmed, known as Abdullah Mala Ismail, Mala Awla Haji Smail, and Mala Mator, was born in the city of Erbil in 1927, and died in the city of Erbil on Saturday, April 22, 2000. He was fluent in both Kurdish and Arabic.

Struggle Pages

He joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1949, was a worker in the Railway Directorate in 1950, became a cadre in the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1950, took responsibility for the Erbil local committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq in 1954, was arrested for a short period by the Iraqi royal authorities in 1954, took responsibility for the Erbil local committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq in Year 1955, was one of the founders of the Railway Workers Union and the Construction Union in 1954, supervised the Mosul organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1956, visited the embassy of the Egyptian Republic on October 15, 1956, accompanied by a representative of the Iraqi Communist Party, and they submitted a protest memorandum from the masses of Erbil against the tripartite aggression of the British Kingdom, the French Republic, and the State of Israel on the Egyptian Republic, was within the second team as responsible for the first branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq in 1956, was arrested and thrown into Kirkuk prison and tortured because of his Kurdayeti activities, despite the payment of 200 dinars as bail for the purpose of his release, but he was not released and remained in prison until the beginning of 1958, was appointed deputy responsible for the third branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq in 1959, was a Member of the Central Committee for the preparatory committee of the Fourth Congress of the Party in Baghdad in 1959, took command of a section of the volunteers of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq affiliated with the Erbil organizations in 1959 following the rebellion of Sheikh Rashid Lolan in the Sidakan area in Erbil Governorate and participated in the battles, and on June 30, 1959, he delivered a message from the Second Conference - Baghdad of the Unified Kurdistan Democratic Party to the wing of the lawyer Hamza Abdullah Omar (1915-1998) regarding their freezing in the ranks of the Party.

He was elected Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq by the Congress Representatives of the Fourth Congress in 1959, delivered the speech of the Unified Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Erbil at the mass rally on the occasion of International Workers' Day, was in 1959 responsible for the third branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq during the disturbances in the city of Kirkuk with the Support of the British Kingdom consulate and the Turanist supporters, and stood against any clashes inside the city, was a member of the founding body of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the public phase on Saturday, January 8, 1960, and was in 1960 a member of the conference body 5th Congress of Kurdistan Democratic Party for a part of the Garmian region, he was elected Member of the Central Committee by the Congress Representatives of 5th Congress of Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1960, was a member of the Revolutionary Organizations Committee and responsible for Bahdinan for the Kurdistan Democratic Party in November 1960, was in Year 1961 with the outbreak of the revolution against the regime of the Iraqi Prime Minister Lieutenant General Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914-1963), and he was entrusted with the supervision of the Kurdistan Democratic Party organizations in Mosul Governorate.  

He supervised in 1961 the assassination of Sadiq Miran Khoshnaw in the Shaqlawa district in Erbil Governorate, who was one of the friends and supporters of the leader Lieutenant General Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914-1963), joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces in 1961, and was sent by the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party as the first commander of the Kurdistan Democratic Party to the Badinan region in Mosul Governorate and distributed the Peshmerga Forces into three branches. On August 20, 1961, in cooperation with Shams al-Din Muhammad Othman (1933-2012), known as Shams al-Din al-Mufti, and with a faction of the Peshmerga, he attacked the Jash of the village of Ispindara in Erbil Governorate and they were able to achieve victory and seize large quantities of weapons and ammunition.

On November 1, 1961, he led an attack on the Iraqi Army ground forces in Balisan in Erbil Governorate, participated in 1961 in the expanded Owdalan meeting and was with the resistance and the revolution, and was appointed company commander in the Erbil plain area, was appointed commander of the first branch forces - Erbil by the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party on January 1, 1962,  

He participated on December 18-23, 1961, in the meeting of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Owdalan (Sulaymaniyah) and voted in favor of continuing Aylul Revolution, and participated in May 1962 in the battle of Mount Balisan in Sulaymaniyah Governorate against the Iraqi Army forces, was sent in 1963 by the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party to the border of the second branch committee area of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the purpose of distributing aid to the Peshmerga and the organizations of the Kurdistan Peshmerga Forces, participated in 1964 in the expanded Mawet meeting and spoke against the leader Mustafa Barzani, he was removed from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the year 1964 due to his support for the Political Bureau wing in the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He went into hiding in the city of Erbil while his comrades took refuge in Hamadan in the Iranian Kingdom, he participated in the first gathering of the Ibrahim Ahmad-Jalal Talabani group in the Timar (Garmian) area on August 28, 1966, he was elected as a Member of the Central Committee among the Ibrahim Ahmad-Jalal Talabani group in the village of Kalar in Kirkuk Governorate on May 22, 1967, he was subjected to gunfire near the Republican Hospital in the city of Erbil in an ambush set up by the Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Democratic Party on January 14, 1967, but he survived the ambush, and he did not accept returning to the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party on December 27, 1970, when it was decided to dissolve the Ibrahim Ahmad-Jalal Talabani group and its return to the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he supervised the disarmament of the forces of the Ibrahim Ahmad-Jalal Talabani group in Kalar after the March 11, 1970 agreement, he was a Member of the Preparatory Committee for the Kurdistan Revolutionary Party loyal to the Ba'ath Party in early January 1973, he participated in a gathering of a section of the cadres of the dissolved Kurdistan Revolutionary Party in the city of Baghdad on October 30, 1973, and was expelled from the gathering by those present due to his opposition to rushing the organization of the gathering, he re-issued the Arabic newspaper Al-Nur (second cycle), the mouthpiece of the Ibrahim Ahmad-Jalal Talabani group, in the city of Baghdad, he was settled in 1974 with the protection of the Iraqi government forces to control the city, he held the Position of Minister of State (Iraq) in 1974-1988, he was appointed by republican decree as Acting Minister of Transport on February 12, 1977, on May 7, 1977, he was appointed by republican decree as Acting Minister of Irrigation in the year 1977, his name appeared in 1977 on the assassination list of the Martyr's Blood Organization (Haloy Soor) affiliated with the Marxist-Leninist Association. He was awarded the Officers' Medal by the President of the Republic of Mali in 1981, he was retired from the Iraqi government in 1989.

 

Among his works:

1- Sarbarday Zhyani Siasim - Bargi Yakem - 1990.

Sources

1. P.D.K., File No. AJ-54, History of the Committee of Branch One of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, p. 1.

2. Chris Kutschera, The Kurdish National Movement, translated by Ibrahim Younesi, second edition, (Tehran - Negah Publishing Institute - 1377 A.H. Solar), p. 376.

3. Shwan Muhammad Amin Taha Khoshnaw, Erbil between the years (1958 - 1963) A study of the political situation, (Erbil - Rojhalat Printing House - 2012 A.D.), pp. 89 - 90, 94 - 95, 100, 160, 173, 176, 203, 251, 258, 262, 268, 277.

4. Shwan Muhammad Amin Taha Khoshnaw, Erbil between the years 1963 - 1970 A historical study of the political situation, (Erbil - Salahaddin University Printing House - 2016 A.D.), pp. 32 - 33, 37, 250 - 251.

5. Abdul Fattah Ali Al-Butani, Studies and Research in the History of the Kurds and Contemporary Iraq, (Erbil - Spirez House for Printing and Publishing - Haji Hashim Printing House - 2007 A.D.), p. 382.

6. Tawfiq Mullah Sadiq, My Memories of the Days of Party Work, Peshmerga Life, and My Exile, second edition, (Erbil - Shahab Printing House - 1996 A.D.), pp. 27, 104.

7. Ahmad Dildar, Memories of My Life Days, (Erbil - Ministry of Culture and Youth - Shahab Printing House - 2019 A.D.), p. 221.

8. Bwar Noureddin, Kurds and Kurdistan Bibliography and Index in Kurdish Books, Volume Two, (Tehran - Tehran Printing House - 2016 A.D.), p. 132.

9. Talib Moriasi, Searching for the Truth, Volume One, (Erbil - 2004 A.D.), pp. 116, 132.

10. Habib Muhammad Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (In Key Milestones) 1946 - 1993, (Duhok - Khabat Printing House - 1998 A.D.), pp. 61, 68, 91.

11. Khurshid Shera, Struggle and Blood: Memories of the Years of Peshmerga Struggle, third edition, (Erbil - Haji Hashim Printing House - 2015 A.D.), p. 120.

12. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Volume Three, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Printing House - 2002 A.D.), p. 144.

13. Nouri Shawis, From My Memoirs, (No location - Publications of the Kurdistan Democratic People's Party - 1985 A.D.), p. 82.