Nawshirwan Mustafa
Nawshirwan Mustafa (22 December 1944[1] – 19 March 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician. He served as the General Coordinator (رێکخەری گشتی / rêkxerî giştî) of the Movement for Change (Kurdish: Bizûtinewey Gorran بزووتنەوەی گۆڕان ) from 2009 until his death in 2017. He served as the leader of the official opposition in the Kurdistan Region.[2] He was born in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.
Mistafa died in Sulaymaniyah due to lung cancer on 19 May 2017 at the age of 72.[3]
References
- ↑ Akkaya, Gülşah Neslihan; Torlak, Furkan; Baştürk, Levent; Küçükkeleş, Müjge; Demir, Zehra Senem; Ziya, Saliha (23 September 2013). Irak Siyasetini Anlama Kılavuzu. ISBN 9786054023295.
- ↑ Muir, Jim (24 July 2009). Iraqi Kurds vote in 'vibrant' elections. BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8167986.stm. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
- ↑ میدیاى فەرمى گۆڕان ڕایگەیاند، نەوشیروان مستەفا رێکخەری گشتی بزووتنەوەی گۆڕان کۆچی دواییکرد . Archived 2017-05-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Kurdish)