Sadegh Sharafkandi

Sadegh Scharafkandi (Persian صادق شرفکندی, Kurdish: Mihemed Sadiq Şerefkendî, also known as Dr. Said, born January 1, 1938 Bukan, † September 17, 1992 in Berlin) was a Kurdish politician from Iran. He was chairman of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan.

The elementary and middle school he attended in Mahabad. In 1959 he made ​​his diploma in Tehran chemistry. Scharafkandi was then to 1965 chemistry teacher in the cities of Urmia and Mahabad. Because of his political activities, he was transferred by the government only after Arak and then Karaj. It was later appointed lecturer in chemistry in Tehran.

In 1972, Scharafkandi for Doctorates to France, where he met Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou 1973 and where he in 1976 at the University Pierre and Marie Curie his Ph.D. received in Analytical Chemistry. He returned to Iran in the same year.

In 1979 he left after the Islamic revolution and the flight of the Shah of Iran in Tehran, the Kurdish movement joined and was elected a member of the Central Committee of the KDP -I. In 1980 he was promoted to the Politburo of the Party. After negotiations on Kurdish autonomy with the Tehran government failed, fighting broke out. Tehran had declared in August 1979 the " jihad " against the KDP -I and other Kurdish organizations.

After the assassination of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlous 1989 by Iranian agents in Vienna, took over as acting Scharafkandi the party presidency of the KDP -I. On the IX. He was then elected chairman of Party Congress in late 1991. In 1992 he traveled to Berlin to attend a meeting of the Socialist International from 15th to 17th of September. A few hours after the end of the meeting Scharafkandi and other politicians were shot by Iranian agents at a dinner in the restaurant Mykonos.

Family

Scharafkandi was married and had three children. Besides Kurdish, he spoke fluent Farsi, Arabic, Turkish and French. His brother was the famous poet Hejar.

Source

  • Biography (English), on the side of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
  • Politicians (Iran)
  • Politicians (Kurdistan)
  • Kurd
  • Iranian
  • Born in 1938
  • Died in 1992
  • Man
Kurdish people Arak, Iran Iranian Revolution
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