The characteristic Sheikh Ezaddin Hosseini (in Kurdish Şêx Êzedîn Hisênî) who was famous for its national and religious role, lost his life due to illness four years ago in a hospital in Sweden. This is a short presentation of his character. He was born in 1921 in the city Bane, East of Kurdistan (Rojhelat). He grow up in a religious family.
Sheikh Ezaddin and his father performed a constant struggle and process against Reza Shah Pahlavi, who was in power in Iran during that time. He also had a close and continuous contact with Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji (in Kurdish, Şêx Mehmud Berzencî) who was a Kurdish leader in town Silêmanî in Southern Kurdistan.
Despite of being a religious person, however he joined a Kurdish political community (JêKaf, Komeley Jiyanewey Kurdistan) as a member in Bokan city in 1943. After the Iranian revolution overthrew in 1979, fled the leader Reza Shah. During this time it was Kurdistan for a short time under control, and neither the Iranian forces or the government had no control of the Rojhelat. He was elected as a member of the Kurdistan diplomatic representative groups in order to negotiate with the new next in the Iranian regime, and he was elected as the all Kurdish political passenger portions and the people of Kurdistan. He was actively attended almost all the meetings with the Iranian regime existing rights of the Kurds in Rojhelat and Iran.
After the massacre and the bloody crimes of the Iranian regime in Sine in 1979, he attended a meeting with the regime’s leaders, Rafsanjani, Bani Sadr, Beheshti and Taleghani. He asked, what is the difference between a crown and a turban? Where he answer that they do not exist any difference, but that the crown has been replaced with a turban, they was no change and nothing has changed in reality, they both are same to the Kurds. After some ongoing and regular meetings with the Iranian regime, he pronounced that because of the lack of clarity about containing and quality of those authorities and the Iranian regime promised to the Kurdish parties, and Kurds decided to boycott the referendum of the Iranian Islamic regime.
About a month later, he was invited by the Iranian regime to a meeting in Tehran and Qom, during the journey to meet Khomeini, the Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan and a number of officials in the Iranian Islamist regime. After Khomeini’s declaration of Jihad against Kurdish nation in November 1979, Sheikh with many fighters went to Kurdistan mountains.
Later on, because the Iranian governments responded Kurdish demand for freedom and their rights by attacks, mass killings and massacres, Sheikh Ezaddin invited Kurdish people to join the fight against the Islamic Republic of Iran. As a result, Thousands of Kurds in Rojhelat joined the Kurdish freedom fighters to protect themselves and fight for their rights and freedom.
In 1985 he went towards the border of South Kurdistan mountains and continued his struggling. Finally, he went to Sweden in 1990. Again he continued his national campaign for Kurdish question and played an important role in the establishment of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK).
Sheikh Ezaddin died on February 10, 2011, in “Akademiska sjukhuset” a hospital in Uppsala, city of Sweden.
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