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Mam Jalal and a half-century of politics
Published on Tuesday, 18 January 1 / December 2012 20:42 | Written by: mg-ah | | | Views: 73
BAGHDAD / obelisk: Jalal Talabani, or Mam Jalal (Uncle Jalal) also known among the Kurds and one of the most prominent politicians of the Iraqi Kurds. Elected by the Iraqi Transitional National Assembly as president of the republic in 2005. Then re-elected president after the 2010 elections. The first non-Arab president of a state with an Arab majority, and in a period that witnessed the throes of a constitutive difficult to democracy, partnership and pluralism.
Born Talabani, Kurdish leader and political veteran, in the village of Klkan affiliated to spend Kuysanjaq near Lake Dukan (12 November 1933). , The son of Sheikh Husamettin Talabani Sheikh way Qadiriya in Kirkuk, northern Iraq. During five decades has continued to present the Kurdish and Iraqi arena. Taking one of his predecessors Taliban title and name consists of two parts Tala any bitter, Alban any high place, and there is a plant once in the village took the label, and also was the name of the request of religious sciences with his family, says one of his relatives.
Talabani, who was like to be a doctor entered the political arena early. He says he joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) led by Mullah Mustafa Barzani in 1947 and was nominated for the Central Committee in 1950 and did not accept because he is young, and in 1952 was elected a member, and in 1953 became a member of the Politburo.
Was one of the first journalists Kurds also In the forties newspaper published his "Rzakary" secret, which was issued Kurdish Aldemocrdoa Party a short article to him under a pseudonym, a "Iakr" Any "fire."
In the forties also participated in the newspaper "the people", which was the National Democratic Party led by the late Kamel Chaderchi, issued and thus became مواظبا to read "the people" every day. Elected in 1959 a member of the Council of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate, which was headed by the great poet Mohammed Mehdi Jawahiri. And was said to be the difference in votes between them was so small that the jeweler said, "This boy will be significant." Talabani was in April 1948 had listened at the Student Union to a jeweler cast his poem tagged (Martyr's Day), and later became a big fan of his poetry and later became one of his friends, and one of the keepers of his poems. Has ordered before the transfer one of Saddam's palaces to a cultural center in the name of the jeweler.
Before that time more than reading in Arabic that proficient manner made him at the Summit in Baghdad seems Jahzaa accent Kurdish diluted amid Excellencies and Highnesses some of whom were apparently speaking a language acquired, not the native language, as if to say to them that stocks knowledge and struggle and harmony in Djapti O my people.
The authors الدائميين newspaper "Khabat" as well as the newspaper, "light", which were issued in the first Baghdad in Arabic 1959-1961 and the second 1969-1970. The most newspaper articles "spark" which was issued by the Kurdish uprising of his writings .
Since the publication of the newspaper (Union) central newspaper of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan became Talabani Arphiha his articles and writings.
In 1948, known year jump, which landed the Treaty Portsmouth and formed when the Ministry of Mohammed Sadr Under atmosphere relative freedom provided by the Wathba elections student across Iraq to elect representatives of students to participate in the General Conference, was that elected Jalal Talabani representative of students Kuysanjaq and participated in the conference Iraq's first students held
Completed his after the revolution of July 14 at the Faculty of Law, which entered in 1953, and graduated in 1959. Then he entered the Faculty of reserve officers, as he also says, and the school became an officer shields Fourth Tank Battalion.
In 1957, traveled to Moscow and Damascus promoter of a Kurdish state, and persuaded the Egyptian government to open the Kurdish radio from Cairo also visited President Ahmed Ben Bella in Algeria, and in 1961, participated in the Kurdish uprising against the government of Abd al-Karim Qasim. And after the last coup, led Talabani, the Kurdish delegation for talks with the new prime minister Abdel Salam Aref 1963. The representative of Barzani in a tour of several European countries in the same year.
In the mid-sixties of the last century joined a faction of dissidents from the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and formed what was called the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Ibrahim Ahmed which Sahirh Talabani after he married daughter Hirokhan and whom he had two sons.
Talabani explains bolting with Ibrahim Ahmed that it was a new trend in the Kurdish movement and moved over the reins to intellectuals, students, teachers and lawyers after it was in the countryside. And crystallized this turn in the eighties at the hands of Kurdish intellectuals and differed in slogans, and adopted brothers - Kurdish and Arab struggle - the joint against colonialism Kurdish and reactionary governments, and called for Arab-Kurdish cohesion, and was a stranger in the current time. And participated with the Iraqi government in a military campaign against the forces of Mullah Mustafa Barzani, but dissident faction dissolved in 1970 after Mullah Mustafa held an agreement with the Iraqi government in what was known as a statement March 11 / March or autonomy agreement for the Kurds.
After the collapse of the Kurdish movement led by Mustafa Barzani, in the aftermath of the Algiers Agreement, which resulted in the withdrawal of support the Shah of Iran to the movement of Barzani, stop the armed conflict between the Kurds and the Iraqi government, in 1972 he traveled outside Iraq and stayed for a while in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and foundations in recent with a number of his comrades Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in 1975. The party adopted a leftist trend and later he became a member of the Socialist International, but did not cut its links with the West and the United States. After forming his own party by enacting, Talabani began an armed movement against the central authority, and the concentration of military activity in the Sulaimaniya region, which subsequently became the stronghold. With the start of the Iran-Iraq war early eighties stop military activity for a short period. And failed attempts by the central authority to negotiate with him, because of what was said to pressure from the Turkish government. Has used that war to maneuver in relations between Iran and Syria on the part of power in Baghdad by another, which support its position in Kurdistan, particularly after the death of Barzani father in 1979. And then resumed fighting again, and Iraqi government forces launched fierce campaigns on Kurdish areas have his forces suffered a setback after 1988 with the end of the war and the control of the Iraqi army on the Kurdistan region, forcing him to resort to Iran.
After the Kuwait war, and the decision to fly the Western alliance and the formation of Iraqi air safe haven for Iraq's Kurds in their region Jalal Talabani returned to Iraqi Kurdistan, along with the rest of the Kurdish movements. In 1992 formed a joint administration of the two parties in the Kurdistan region. However, the tension between them has led to a military confrontation in the year 1994 and then in 1996. And settled the matter on the existence of two departments and one in Arbil, Barzani and second Talabani in Sulaimaniyah. After vigorous U.S. efforts and the intervention of British, and the result of numerous meetings between delegations of the two parties signed the Barzani and Talabani, a peace agreement in Washington in 1998.
After the U.S. invasion of Iraq and topple the regime of Saddam, the form of joint bipartisan leadership. The two entered in the Interim Governing Council and then became Barzani, president of Kurdistan region and Talabani as president of the Republic of Iraq.
With this long journey with twists and policy takes some variability in attitudes, but the man answered that he was driving the boat hamstrung by waves of regional and international wills as well as the repressive authorities and internal conflicts. And then there was only a narrow margin of maneuver, to keep the issue of the Kurdish people present on the scene. Tried to balance between the presidency and national affiliation, but has prevailed for the latter, according to some. However, he lectured to extinguish fires of political differences and defuse hot and cooling surfaces and inflamed Boatnha. A seasoned negotiator, leaving his interlocutors puzzled than planned. Rapid transformation and is able to find holes that escapes them Astasaouath.
Exposure Mam Jalal, who popularized the bit of fun at the meetings of politicians, to many Aloekat and setbacks health in recent years, toured Kurdistan fighting and make in its valleys sweat is struggling against systems of tyranny and solicit away in Baghdad, and perhaps one of the few presidents of Iraqis who will not die behind a horse not executions, no murder, no "meat and climbed down coal" as a slave Salam Aref in mysterious circumstances, died a quiet death in and around the government companions reassured about his health together and disagreed yesterday. He was trying that gathered them at the table, but putting them on the bed of his illness. Did not think before his death that aside Anhoh to increase his illness and hurts as Saddam did with former President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. It's the difference between tyranny and the election, is the difference between dying amid three prime ministers to revive, and to live with ghosts dead make death tyrant death scene behind a horse or executions or murders, he difference between Democrat who dies amid fellow presidents and prime minister to revive and tyrannical, which sends their turn to the cemetery before he dies alone does not nominated by one.
President goes and leaves with his legacy and political struggle crutch But as she passed, as if to say to them that not only rifle stands States but some will remind you of this wor Kaz accidents.
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