Sadegh Sharafkandi
| Sadegh Sharafkandi | |
|---|---|
| Native name | سادق شەڕەفکەندی |
| Born | January 11, 1938 Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran |
| Died | September 17, 1992 (aged 54) Berlin, Germany |
| Cause of death | Assassination |
| Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France |
| Citizenship | Iran |
| Education | Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry |
| Alma mater | University of Paris VI |
| Title | Secretary-General of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) |
| Term | 1989–1992 |
| Predecessor | Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou |
| Successor | Vacant, later Mustafa Hijri |
| Political party | Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) |
| Children | 3 |
Sadegh Sharafkandi (Kurdish: Sadiq Şerefkendî ; 11 January 1938 Bukan – 17 September 1992 Berlin) was a Kurdish political activist and the Secretary-General of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDKI).
Sharafkandi was born on 1 January 1938, in Bukan, West Azerbaijan, Iran. He spent two years of his elementary studies in his native village, then his family moved to Mahabad, where he completed his primary and secondary education. In 1959, he received his degree in chemistry at the Institute of Higher Education in Teheran.
After graduation, up to 1965, Sharafkandi taught chemistry in the Kurdish towns of Bukan and Mahabad. Because of his political activities, he was transferred first to Arak, then to Karaj by the Shah's regime, before being appointed assistant lecturer in chemistry at the Teachers’ Higher Training College in Teheran. In 1972, he went to France to study at the University of Paris VI, where he received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 1976. While studying in Paris in 1973, he met Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, the Secretary-general of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), and joined the Party. Upon his retum to Iran, he became Ghassemlou’s representative in his country. In 1976, he went back to Iran to teach at the Teachers’ Higher Training College in Teheran. After the fall of the Shah’s regime in February 1979, he resigned from his position and joined the reawakening Kurdish movement, which in August became the target of a “Holy War” decreed by Ayatollah Khomeini.
In February 1979, after the fall of the Shah’s regime, the PDKI’s activities became illegal. Dr. Sharafkandi was elected alternate member of the Central Committee and appointed as the Party’s official in Teheran. During the summer of 1979, he became a permanent Party cadre and in 1980, during the following Congress, he acceded to the Political Bureau. From then onwards, up to the assassination in July 1989 in Vienna of Dr. Ghassemlou by Iranian emissaries, he was regularly re-elected and put in charge of the Party’s publications. In 1986, he also took office as assistant Secretary-general of PDKI. After Ghassemlou’s assassination, he temporarily took over the Party’s leadership until December 1991, when he was unanimously elected Secretary-general during the IXth Congress.
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