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Idris Barzani | |
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ئیدریس بارزانی (Îdirîs Barzanî) | |
 Idris Barzani (center) with Kaka Ziad Koya and Franso Hariri | |
| Born | 1944 (1944) Semel,Iraqi Kurdistan, Kingdom of Iraq |
| Died | 31 January 1987(1987-01-31) (aged 42–43) |
| Burial place | Barzan, Kurdistan Region |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Known for | Kurdish political leadership, diplomacy |
| Political party | Kurdistan Democratic Party |
| Children | 6, includingNechirvan Idris Barzani |
| Parent | Mullah Mustafa Barzani |
| Relatives | Massoud Barzani (brother) |
| Family | Barzani family |
Idris Barzani (Kurdish:ئیدریس بارزانی,romanized: Îdirîs Barzanî 1944 – 31 January 1987) was aKurdish politician in theKurdistan Region. He was the brother ofMassoud Barzani, the former president of the Kurdistan Region and the father ofNechervan Idris Barzani, the current president of theKurdistan Region. He was often on diplomatic trips for theKurdistan Democratic Party. He died on January 31, 1987, of a heart attack.
Idris Barzani was one of the most prominent political figures inKurdish politics, spending his entire life serving the Kurdish cause alongside his fatherMullah Mustafa and brotherMassoud Barzani. Barzani was known to be the peacemaker figure among the Kurdish parties after the1975 Algiers Agreement betweenShah Pahlavi andSaddam Hussein which led to the Collapse of the Peace Accord. In the 1980s, Idris Barzani repeatedly attempted to hold a Kurdish Congress gathering the Kurds to unify the Kurdish political parties but his early sudden death didn't allow him to finish his duty.
Idris was born in 1944 in Barzan, a village in Iraqi Kurdistan, he moved to Mahabad with his father, family and thousands of peshmergas to join the newly establishedRepublic of Mahabad which lasted only 11 months, afterward Barzani moved back to Barzan while his fatherMullah Mustafa and 500 of his followers went toSoviet Union; refusing to surrender to the neighbouring regimes who oppressed the Kurdish people. Barzani in an early age of his life joined thePeshmerge serving in 1960's revolutions.
On 10 March 1970, the Iraqi regime then finally reached an agreement with the Kurds for the creation of an autonomous region in Northern Iraq.[1] Idris Barzani played a major role in processing the agreement, he and presidentBarzani went toBaghdad on 11 March 1970, coming before a rally of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people who were celebrating the day.
Following the collapse of the peace accord in 1975, Barzani, along with his family and thousands of Kurdish families settled inIran and the KDP went through a chaotic period as it attempted to reorganize itself in face of the defeat at the hands of the Ba'ath in Iraq.
AfterMullah Mustafa's death in 1979 Congress of KDP held in 1979. Idris Barzani, became a KDP top strategist under the party leadership of his brother PresidentBarzani. He often represented the party in the west, lobbying for the Kurdish rights.
Idris Barzani suddenly died with a heart attack on 31 January 1987, he was buried in Iranian Kurdistan inOshnavieh. In October 1993, his body was brought across the border from Iran to Iraqi Kurdistan to be reburied inBarzan.
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