Officer and politician Yunis Muhammad Salim Yunis, known by the names (Lieutenant Yunis, First Brigadier Yunis Rojbeyani), graduated from the military college in Baghdad in 1967. In 1971, he joined the ranks of the September Revolution. After the organization of the Peshmerga forces following the September Revolution, in 1977 he joined the Peshmerga forces of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1979, at the Ninth Congress, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On April 25, 1993, in the first cabinet, he became the Minister of Interior of the Kurdistan Regional Government. In the same year, at the Eleventh Congress, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified; in 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress, he was elected as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and he is a recipient of the Barzani the Immortal medal and retired with the rank of First Brigadier.

 

Biography

Yunis Muhammad Salim Yunis was born in 1944 in the city of Duhok. He completed his primary, middle, and high school education in the city of Mosul. On January 6, 1964, he was admitted to the Baghdad Military College and in 1967 received the rank of Second Lieutenant. After completing his studies, he was appointed to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and served in several different military locations and positions. He is proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian languages.

Work History

Yunis Muhammad Salim joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union in 1960, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1961, and joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the September Revolution in 1971, serving in several different locations, ranks, and positions as a Peshmerga and commander, and participated in battles and confrontations against enemy forces.

 

In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he migrated to the country of Iran. At the beginning of April 1975, by his comrade Masoud Barzani he was tasked with preparations for the Gulan Revolution and in 1976, by the order of Idris Barzani (1944 - 1987) and with the intention of contacting organizations, he secretly visited South Kurdistan.

 

On November 15, 1977, he participated in the broad final meeting of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the organization of Peshmerga forces and the reactivation of organizations. In 1979 at the Ninth Congress, 1997 at the Tenth Congress, 1989 at the Eleventh Congress, 1993 at the Twelfth Congress, and 1999 he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 1980 he was appointed as the head of the Third Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1988, he was appointed as the head of the Military Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in the same year became the head of the axis in the Xwakurk epic.

 

On May 19, 1992, in the first term, he was elected as a member of the Kurdistan National Council on the list of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and became the Head of the Peshmerga Affairs Committee. On April 25, 1993, in the first cabinet, he became the Minister of Interior of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

 

In 2004, he became the head of the Fourteenth Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul. In 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress, he was elected as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On February 16, 2017, he survived an assassination attempt in the city of Mosul, but two of his guards were martyred. Because of his resistance in the September Revolution, the Gulan Revolution, the uprising of South Kurdistan, and the phase of governance, he received the Barzani the Immortal medal from President Masoud Barzani himself.

 

His works:

Beginnings of partisan warfare in Kurdistan, 1986.

References:

1- Hamid Gawhari, Barzani Medal the highest award of appreciation, first book, second edition, (Erbil - Barzani Charity Foundation 2019).

2- Faisal Rasul Khoshnaw, Biography of Kurdish Officers, second part, (Tehran - Rojhilat Press - 2020).

3- Yunis Rojbeyani, Beginnings of partisan warfare in Kurdistan, (Location unknown - Xebat Press 1986).

4- Ahmed Sharif Lak, Interpretation of historical events, second volume, (Erbil - Rojhilat Press - 2019).

5- Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.    

6- Hamid Gawhari, Barzani Medal the highest award of appreciation, first volume, (Erbil - Barzani Charity Foundation - Haji Hashim Press 2014).

7- Habib Muhammad Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (in key stations) 1946 - 1993, (Duhok - Matbaa Xebat 1998).

8- Shaban Ali Shaban, Some political and historical information, third edition, (Erbil - Rojhilat Press - 2013).

9- Ali Sinjari, The Kurdish Cause and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq, part three, (Duhok - Matbaa Khani - 2012).