Nawshirwan Mustafa

Nawshirwan Mustafa
Nawshirwan Mustafa
General coordinator of the Movement for Change (Gorran)
In office
1 April 2009  19 May 2017
Succeeded byOmar Said Ali
Deputy Secretary General of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
In office
1 November 1976  30 November 2006
Preceded byKosrat Rasul Ali
Komala
Personal details
Born(1944-12-22)22 December 1944
Sulaymaniyah, Kingdom of Iraq
Died19 May 2017(2017-05-19) (aged 72)
Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
CitizenshipIraq & UK
NationalityKurdish
Political partyMovement for Change
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionHistorian, Author, Scholar, Revolutionary, Peshmerga (Guerilla) Commander
Military service
Allegiance Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
Branch/servicePeshmerga
Battles/wars

Nawshirwan Mustafa (22 December 1944 – 19 May 2017) (Kurdish: نەوشیروان مستەفا) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the General Coordinator of the Movement for Change and the leader of the opposition in the Kurdistan Region from 1 April 2009 to his death on 19 May 2017.