Nawshirwan Mustafa (22 December 1944 – 19 May 2017) (Kurdish: نەوشیروان مستەفا) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the General Coordinator of...

under the leadership of Omar Said Ali, and was founded in 2009 by Nawshirwan Mustafa. Gorran is the sixth largest party in the Kurdistan Region, having...

of Bafel Talabani. The PUK was founded in 1975 by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum, Adel Murad, Ali Askari and Abdul Razaq Feyli Dawood Mohammed...

Cameroonian politician Nawshirwan Mustafa (1944-2017), Kurdish politician Abu Mustafa (1925–1966), Pakistani cricketer Abu Ali Mustafa (1938-2001), Palestinian...

2018) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician whom along with Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Kamal Fuad, Ali Askari, Fuad Masum and Abdul Razaq Faily, was the...

party profoundly. The second most important political PUK figure, Nawshirwan Mustafa, was the founder of Gorran, who took advantage of sentiments among...

raids by the PUK against Iraqi government were not favorably considered by Mustafa Barzani, the leader of the KDP. In the aftermath of the Second Iraqi–Kurdish...

death of PUK leader Jalal Talabani and the Kurdish opposition leader Nawshirwan Mustafa, the alliance was seen to have the potential to change the Kurdish...

office was part of the Presidency Council of Iraq. Nawshirwan Mustafa was Talabani's deputy until Mustafa resigned in 2006 and formed an opposition party...

linguist, mathematician, politician, author, translator and writer. Nawshirwan Mustafa (1944–2017), politician, historian and media proprietor Barham Salih...

is a Kurdish language news television network founded in 2008 by Nawshirwan Mustafa, the leader of the Change Movement political party. It is operated...

Islamiya Kurdistan) Movement for Change (Bizutnaway Gorran) – led by Nawshirwan Mustafa Kurdistan Toilers' Party (Parti Zahmatkeshan Kurdistan) Kurdistan...

(1944–2000) Nawshirwan Mustafa (1944–2017) Yitzhak Mordechai (1944–) Aref Tayfour (1945–) Bahaedin Adab (1945–2007) Munzur Çem (1945–2022) Mustafa Hijri (1945–)...

a third Kurdish party, the Movement for Change (Gorran) headed by Nawshirwan Mustafa. As members of the security forces voted on Monday 28 April, six different...

death of PUK leader Jalal Talabani and the Kurdish opposition leader Nawshirwan Mustafa, the alliance was seen to have the potential to change the Kurdish...

Commanders and leaders Massoud Barzani Roj Shaweis Jalal Talabani Nawshirwan Mustafa Kosrat Rasul Ali Abdullah Öcalan Ibrahim Parlak Kani Yilmaz Cemil...

newspaper of record. Rozhnama was founded in 2007 at the behest of Nawshirwan Mustafa, who claimed he wanted a daily newspaper in the Kurdistan region which...

made by his younger brother Mustafa Barzani in 1943, but that revolt failed as well, resulting in the exiling of Mustafa to Iran, where he participated...

of Kurdistan, the second largest party, and the opposition leader Nawshirwan Mustafa. In September 2017, Barham Salih, a former prime minister of Iraqi...

Foad Mostafa Soltani Abdullah Mohtadi Sedigh Kamangar Jalal Talabani Nawshirwan Mustafa Najmadin Shukr Rauf Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou Sadegh Sharafkandi Abdullah...

2006–09) and Barham Salih (PUK; 2009–12). When former PUK official Nawshirwan Mustafa broke away to form the new Movement for Change (Gorran) party, the...

organizations. This was set up of the Marxist–Leninist group, Komala, led by Nawshirwan Mustafa and the Kurdistan Socialist Movement (KSM) led by Ali Askari. During...

Morley Safer, Canadian-born American journalist (b. 1931) 2017 – Nawshirwan Mustafa, General coordinator of the Movement for Change (Gorran) (b. 1944)...

– The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded by Jalal Talabani, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Fuad Masum and others. 1978 – The first international applications...

al-Jaafari 18.15 70 −35 Kurdistan List Barham Salih 14.59 43 −10 Gorran Nawshirwan Mustafa 4.13 8 +8 Tawafuq Adnan al-Dulaimi 2.59 6 −38 Unity Alliance Ahmed...

  First party Second party Third party   Leader Nechirvan Barzani Nawshirwan Mustafa Barham Salih Party KDP Gorran PUK Last election 30 25 29 Seats won...

founding member of the Movement for Change under the leadership of Nawshirwan Mustafa. He was initially the movement's official spokesman and is now responsible...

Ibrahim al-Douri Ali Hassan al-Majid Massoud Rajavi Jalal Talabani Nawshirwan Mustafa Massoud Barzani Osman Hajy Marouf Strength 90,000 20,000 Casualties...

surname originates from his birthplace of Barzan. He is the grandson of Mustafa Barzani, a legendary Kurdish leader who led the Kurdish Revolution and...

the Kurdistani List. They were challenged by the Change List led by Nawshirwan Mustafa, the former deputy secretary general of the PUK and Jawhar Namiq,...