Furat was born in 1934 in Erzurum, North Kurdistan. He graduated in sociology from Amed Technical Institute. Kurdish figure Abdulmalik Furat is the spiritual leader of the Freedom and Rights Party in Turkey and the author of Life in Exile in Mesopotamia. He was twice elected to the Turkish parliament as a representative of Erzurum, the first time in 1957 and the second time in 1991.
As a Kurd and a Kurdish personality, he has always had good relations with prominent figures in the political movement in the Kurdistan Region. In his book, he describes in detail the life of exile of Sheikh Saeed and his descendants and supporters after the collapse of their revolution at the hands of the nationalists of the Union and Progress Association in the middle and late second decade of the last century. He died on 29-09-2009 in Ankara.[1]