Shahab Sheikh Nuri
| Shahab Shiekh Nuri | |
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| Founder and First Secretary General Komala | |
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In office June 10, 1970 – November 21, 1976 |
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| Succeeded by | Nawshirwan Mustafa |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1932 Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan
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| Died | November 21, 1976 |
| Political party | Komalay Ranjdaran, then Patriotic Union of Kurdistan |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Revolutionary |
Shahab Nuri Salih Barzinji was a Kurdish politician born in the city of Suleimani in 1932. Shahab Nuri was the son of renowned Kurdish poet, Sheikh Nuri Sheikh Salih Sheikh Ghani Barzinji and grandson of Mahmud Barzanji. Shahab Shiekh Nuri had three brothers; Janab, Nihad and Daro [Daro was also a founding member of the Komalay Ranjdaran Party] and two sisters, Galawezh and Pershing.
Shahab Nuri was the founding member of the Komalay Ranjdaran political organization; Shahab Nuri Sali formed the Komalay Ranjarani Kurdistan on June 10, 1970. Khala Shahab, as he was referred to by those who worked with him, was considered one of the most influential modern Kurdish politician, whose progressive ideology help shape the politics and political ideology of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. Khala Shahab grew up yearning to help the oppressed and was not bound by borders. On a number of occasions, Khala Shahab traveled to Lebanon, Yemen and Syria making contact with global liberation leftist organizations. Khala Shahab inspired his cousin Shaswar Jalal [Shahid Aram] Faraidoun Abdul Qadir and a number of other Kurdish nationalist to make international contacts and put forward the Kurdish cause. Prior to forming the Komalay Ranjdaran Khala Shahab joined the mainstream Kurdish movement and partook in the September Revolution and joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
In late 1975 the Komalay Ranjdaran was faced with a series of arrests against their cadres. The first to get arrested was Anwar Zorab in the city of Baghdad by the Iraqi Secret Security Organization Amin al Khas. After the arrest of Anwar Zorab, Shahab Nuri and a number of his associates, Omar Sayid Ali, Ali Pichkol, Mamosta Jafar Abdulwahid and Awat Abdulghafur headed towards the Iranian border. Shahab Nuri and his four associated were arrested by the Iranian authorities and held at a SAVAK detention center on September 20, 1975. The Komalay Ranjdaran leadership was handed over to the Iraqi Government on January 1, 1976.
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