$Biography$
He was born in 1933 in Erbil and completed his primary and secondary education in Erbil and high school in Baghdad. He graduated from the College of Law in 1958 and worked in the ranks of the Kurdish liberation movement and began his struggle as a fighter in the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), where he became acquainted with Jalal Talabani.
Shamsaddin Mufti started his struggle as a revolutionary from the Kurdistan Students Union and founded the Erbil branch of the Kurdistan Students Union in 1954. He was the president of the union for a while when Jalal Talabani was the secretary of the organization.
After the July 14 revolution, he represented the late Mullah Mustafa Barzani and lawyer for the Barzanis to settle in Erbil, and was one of the 10 people who officially received permission for the PDK.
His house in Baghdad became a hiding place for revolutionaries and strugglers such as Mam Jalal and Dr. Abdulrahman Qasemloo.
He went to the mountains for several months before the outbreak of the revolution in order to prepare and organize secretly to face any eventuality. Five months before the outbreak of the September Revolution, he was arrested by the Abdulkareem Qasim government.
He always wanted to fulfill his national duties in secret without being announced or mentioned, so until the end of his life he was an example of an honest man and loved by his people and always a respected personality close to the working people, especially farmers.
Shamsaddin Mufti was previously a member of foreign relations and the revolution's representative in Tehran. After the collapse of the September Revolution, he had the will to defend his nation, so he actively participated in organizing the ranks of the Kurdish movement. Through his friendship with Mam Jalal, he participated in supporting the efforts and working for the revolutionary tasks and re-declaring the revolution in 1976.
He joined the ranks of the Kurdish revolution in 1977. He was one of those who always advocated the unity of the Kurdish people.
After the 1991 uprising, he benefited from his strong relations with all the forces of the Kurdish arena and played an important role in the parliamentary elections and the formation of the government. He has been asked several times by the PUK and KDP to take government positions, but he had refused.
He died on #05-09-2012# in the Netherlands.[1]