Omer Fattah Hussain

Omer Fattah Hussain
4th Prime Minister of Kurdistan (PUK)
In office
4 July 2004  14 June 2005
PresidentJalal Talebani
Preceded byBarham Salih
Succeeded byPosition abolished
1st Deputy Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan
In office
1 March 2006  24 February 2009
PresidentMassoud Barzani
Prime MinisterNechervan Barzani
Preceded byPost Created
Succeeded byImad Ahmad Sayfour
Personal details
Born1948
Sulaymaniyah, Kingdom of Iraq
NationalityKurdish
Political partyPatriotic Union of Kurdistan
SpouseKafia Sleman
ChildrenAra Omer Fatah, Ava Omer Fatah
ResidenceSulaymanyah

Omer Fattah Hussain (Born: Sulaymaniyah) is the former deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Kurdistan Region. Due to political problems in the PUK, he handed his resignation in on 24 February 2009. He also served as acting Prime Minister of Jalal Talebani's Suleimaniyeh based Kurdish administration from July 2004 (when Barham Salih resigned to become Deputy Prime Minister for the Iraqi Interim Government until June 2005 with the re-unification of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous Republic.