Abd al-Karim Murad Fathullah, known as Yadulla Abd al-Karim, Yadulla Fayli, Kaka Yadi and Zal, politician, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Year 1950, in the Year 1959 by the votes of the members of the Fourth Congress he became a member of the Inspection and Oversight Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in the Year 1960 he was a member of the fifty-person committee supporting the establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the phase of open work, and in that same year and at the Fifth Congress he was elected by the votes of the congress members as a member of the Supreme Oversight and Inspection Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1964 at the Sixth Congress and in the Year 1966 at the Seventh Congress he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Biography

Abd al-Karim Murad Fathullah was born in the Year 1934 in the city of Baghdad, he was raised in a Kurdish Fayli merchant family in the city of Baghdad and he himself was engaged in commercial work, he is a high school graduate, in the Year 1942 he went to religious studies in the city of Baghdad, in the Year 1943 he went to primary school and because of his intelligence he was placed in the third grade of primary school, in the Year 1949 he finished the Ja'fari middle school, in the Year 1954 he was appointed as an employee in the Department of Construction Materials, he passed away on 19 September 2022 in the city of Erbil. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic and Persian languages.

Struggle Record

Abd al-Karim Murad Fathullah joined the ranks of the party in the Year 1950 and was active in the ranks of the party under the secret name Zal, in the Year 1951 he was made a member of the Baghdad Regional Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1953 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union, in the Year 1957 he became the head of the Baghdad Regional Committee of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1958 he was a member of the delegation welcoming President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) at Muthanna Airport in the city of Baghdad, in the Year 1958 he was a member of the five-person committee overseeing the Sarkawtin Club in the city of Baghdad, in the Year 1959 he participated in the Second Baghdad Conference of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1959 by the representatives of the Fourth Congress he was elected as a member of the Inspection and Oversight Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, on Saturday 8 January 1960 he was a member of the fifty-person committee supporting the establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the phase of open work.

In the Year 1960 by the representatives of the Fifth Congress he was elected as a member of the Supreme Oversight and Inspection Committee of the party, on 30 July 1961 he was detained for a short time in the city of Baghdad by the Iraqi General Security forces on the charge of distributing a statement of the Kurdistan Democratic Party against Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914-1963) which discussed the violation of the constitutional and political rights of the Kurd, in the Year 1961 he participated in the last meeting of the party leadership and the Supreme Inspection Committee, which was held to find a solution for dealing with Abd al-Karim Qasim and his violations against the Kurd at the house of Dr. Murad Aziz (1918-1980) in the Karrada al-Sharqiya neighborhood of the city of Baghdad, at the end of September 1961 he visited the Pishdar region located on the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate with the intention of connecting with the uprising tribes and preparing for a nationwide revolution, in the Year 1963 he was a representative of the First People's Congress in the city of Koya, on 30 March 1963 as a member of the Kurdish delegation he arrived in the city of Baghdad to negotiate with Iraqi officials to secure the rights of the Kurd in Iraq, in the Year 1963 he was imprisoned by the National Guard (Al-Haras al-Qawmi) forces and was severely tortured, in the Year 1963 he was imprisoned in Hilla prison and was tortured and later transferred to the Central Prison of Baghdad, in the Year 1964 after his release from prison he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces, in the Year 1964 he was Known as the hero of Kurdistan for his defense and resilience in the face of torture. In the Year 1964 he participated in the broad Maweti meeting and was the representative of the head of the Supreme Oversight and Inspection Committee and stood against the decisions of the meeting and supported President Mustafa Barzani in the Year 1964 by the representatives of the Sixth Congress he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1964 he was a representative of the Second People's Congress in the city of Qaladiza, in the Year 1964 he was a member of the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the Year 1964 he was a member of the Finance Committee affiliated with the Executive Office (Al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) affiliated with the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan.

In the Year 1964 he was made the second head of the Fifth Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at the end of the Year 1965 he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at the end of the Year 1965 he was made the head of the Fifth Branch, in the Year 1966 by the representatives of the Seventh Congress He was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On April 15, 1967, he was a representative at the Kani Samak military-political conference in Erbil. At the end of August 1967, he was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party leadership committee for resolving the problem of the two wings of the Kurdistan Students Union in the village of Nawprdan, Erbil Province. On Friday, June 12, 1970, by order of President Mustafa Barzani, he became a member of the Party delegation to visit the city of Najaf in central Iraq to participate in the funeral of the great Ayatollah Abdul Muhsin al-Hakim (1889-1970), the great Shia Marja of the world. On June 17, 1970, by order of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914-1982), Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, he was appointed as the manager of the Anbar Construction Materials Contracting Company in Baghdad. In 1970, he was made the mayor of Anbar city in western Iraq. In 1970, he was the head of the founding committee of the open phase of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. On Saturday, December 7, 1970, he participated in the opening of the main headquarters of the Kurdistan Women's Union in Baghdad. In 1971, he played a role in thwarting an attempt to assassinate Idris Barzani in Baghdad by the Iraqi General Security Agency. In June 1971, he was appointed as the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. On Sunday, June 20, 1971, at the main headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union in Baghdad, he welcomed a delegation from the Soviet Youth Union.

On February 2, 1972, as the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union, he participated in the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union in Erbil. On March 30, 1972, as the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union, he delivered a speech at the Seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union in Sulaymaniyah. In 1972, he was elected by the representatives of the Second Congress as the Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. In 1974, he was elected by the representatives of the Third Congress as a member of the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. In 1974, for the second time in his life, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. On April 28, 1974, after his house was seized by the Iraqi government, his family was expelled to the liberated areas. In 1974, he was made an administrator of the Seventh Branch Committee. In 1974, he was made a member of the supervisory committee for the refugee camps of Southern Kurdistan in the Kingdom of Iran. In the years (1975-1976), after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he was a refugee in the Kingdom of Iran. In 1976, he returned to Baghdad and resided there. In 1992, he left Baghdad and headed to the Kurdistan Region. In 1999, he was a representative of the Twelfth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Erbil. On Thursday, August 24, 2000, he published an article in the Brayati newspaper, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On January 8, 2001, he was made a Minister of State in the Fourth Cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government. In 2003, he was one of the founders of the Democratic Movement for the Faili Kurds (Harakat al-Dimuqratiyah lil-Kurd al-Failiyah). In 2010, he was a representative of the Congress Thirteenth of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Erbil.

Source:

1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.