Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo
| Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo ܣܪܟܝܣ ܐܓܓܢ ܡܡܢܕܘ |
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| Minister of Finance and the Economy | |
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In office 1999 – 7 May 2006(In office unofficially until 2008 when another person was given the position) |
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| Prime Minister | Nechervan Idris Barzani |
| Succeeded by | Bayiz Saeed Mohammad |
| Representative in the Kurdish Parliament | |
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In office 1992–1999 |
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| Leader | Masoud Barzani |
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| Born | 1962 Diana, Iraq |
| Political party | Kurdistan Democratic Party |
| Religion | Assyrian Church of the East |
Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo (Syriac: ܣܪܟܝܣ ܐܓܓܢ ܡܡܢܕܘ), (born 1962) is an Iraqi Assyrian politician who was appointed Minister for Finance and Economy in the cabinet of Iraqi Kurdistan on 7 May 2006.
Sarkis was born in Diyana, Erbil Governorate of Iraqi Kurdistan in 1962. He is a Nochiya-Assyrian of the Assyrian Church of the East denomination with family origins from the district of Shamezdin in the Hakkari Province of Turkey. He was first elected into the Kurdistan National Assembly in the first Iraqi Kurdistan elections in 1992, beginning his political career. Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo was also the Minister for Finance and the Economy from 1999 to 2006, and Deputy Prime Minister from 2004 to 2006 in the Arbil & Dohuk administration. Aghajan appears to owe his ascendancy within the Kurdistan Democratic Party power structure to his personal relationship with Nechervan Idris Barzani, the Kurdish prime minister. His supporters say that as young men, the two were forced to flee Iraq with their families in 1975 after the United States withdrew its support of the Barzani clan, and so Nechervan grew up with Sarkis on the Aghajan family estate in Iran.
Sarkis is known, in addition to his political roles, for massive development and aid programs he has begun in which he built or repaired dozens of Churches, roads, schools and Assyrian settlements throughout northern Iraq through the "Higher Committee for Christian Affairs" that he established. He is also a major funder and owner of the new Assyrian TV channel Ishtar TV, which is broadcast in three languages (Syriac, Arabic, and Kurdish).
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