Idris Barzani: Difference between revisions

On 10 March 1970, the Iraqi regime then finally reached an agreement with the Kurds for the creation of an autonomous region in Northern Iraq.<ref>{{Cite book|url=|title=Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights|last=Hannum|first=Hurst|date=2011-10-12|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|year=|isbn=9780812202182|location=|pages=190-193|language=en}}</ref> Idris Barzani played a major role in processing the agreement, he and president [[Masoud Barzani|Barzani]] went to [[Baghdad]] on 11 March 1970, coming before a rally of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people who were celebrating the day.

 

Following the collapse of the peace accord in 1975, Barzani, along with his family and thousands of Kurdish families settled in [[Iran]] and the KDP went through a chaotic period as it attempted to reorganize itself in face of the defeat at the hands of the Ba'ath in Iraq.{{Authority control}}

Idris Barzani suddenly died with a heart attack on 31 January 1987, he was buried in Iranian Kurdistan in [[Oshnavieh]]. On October 1993, his body was brought across the border from Iran to Iraqi Kurdistan to be reburied in [[Barzan, Iraq|Barzan]].