Sheikh Nuri Sheikh Salih Sheikh Ghani Sheikh Abdul Qadir was an Iraqi Kurdish newspaper editor, activist, and poet. He was from the Barzinji tribe of Kurdistan.

Sheikh Nuri was born in the Sulaimaniyah neighbourhood of Ashaba Spi in 1896. Sheikh Nuri was related to the last Kurdish King, Shiekh Mahmud Barzanji

Mahmud Barzanji

Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji or Mahmud Berzenji was the leader of several Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was sheikh of a Qadiriyah Sufi family from the city of Sulaymaniyah, which is now in Iraqi Kurdistan...

. From a young age, Sheikh Nuri partook in Kurdish activism and had a love for poetry, he was inspired by his love for his country, family and friends. Sheikh Nuri has authored a number of poetry books, one being Diwani Shweikh Nuri Sheikh Salih published first in the 1970s.

Positions Held

Under Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji's reign, Sheikh Nuri was the Persian Editor of the Bangi Kurdistan newspaper and the Editor in Chief of the Roji Kurdistan newspaper. Sheikh Nuri held many government posts including the district administrator of Sangaw and Rawanduz Kurdistan.

Children

He had several notable children. His eldest son was Sheikh Janab. His second eldest was Sheikh Shahab Shahab Sheikh Nuri

Shahab Sheikh Nuri

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...

, the founder of the Komalay Ranjdarani Kurdistan. Khala Shahab was executed by the Baathist regime under the direct order of the then Iraqi Vice President Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

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 on November 21, 1976 in the Abu Ghraib

Abu Ghraib

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 Prison. His third son was Sheikh Nihad, who died during the 1991 Kurdish exodus

1991 uprisings in Iraq

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 on the Iraq/Iran border and was buried in the Kurdish village of Kani Dinar. The fourth son was Sheikh Daro, who held many positions within the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa...

 (PUK). At one point Sheikh Daro was a member of the PUK Politburo and in the late 1990s was the Deputy Prime Minister for the Kurdistan Regional Government

Kurdistan Regional Government

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. Sheikh Nuri's two daughters are Galawezh and Pirshang. Pirshing is the only one of Sheikh Nuri's offspring still alive.