Ahmed Mukhtar Jaff (1898–1934) was the son of

Osman Pasha Jaff Osman Pasha Jaff, supreme ruler to the Jaff tribe, and an Ottoman ruler in the Mosul vilayet, that contributed to women's suffrage in the Middle East. In 1888 and 1889, Sultan Abdul Hamid II had Osman replace his more violent brother, Mahmood P ...

, Ottoman Kurdish ruler of Mosul Vilayet, and Adela Kahnem AKA Adela Jaff (

Lady Adela Lady Adela Jaff or Adela Khanem, called the ''Princess of the Brave'' by the British was a Kurdish ruler of the Jaff tribe and one of the first famous woman leaders in the history of Kurdistan. The Jaff tribe is the biggest tribe in Kurdistan an ...

) . He was one of the most prominent leaders of the Jaf family, as well as a poet and a novelist. Ahmed Mukhtar Jaf was a member of

Iraqi parliament The Council of Representatives ( ar, مجلس النواب, Majlis an-Nuwwāb al-ʿIrāqiyy; ku, ئه‌نجومه‌نی نوێنه‌ران, ''Enjumen-e Nûnerên''), usually referred to simply as the Parliament is the unicameral legislature o ...

and mayor of

Halabja Halabja ( ku, هەڵەبجە, Helebce, ) is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the capital of Halabja Governorate, located about northeast of Baghdad and from the Iranian border. The city lies at the base of what is often referred to ...

. He was born in the year 1898 in the province of Halabja. He had two sons, Afrasiab Jaf and Ghandi Jaf, as well as three daughters, Shamsa Jaff, Roonak Jaff and Hameeda Jaff. He was a patriot Kurd who called for Kurdistan's independence and opposed the English occupation. He was only 32 when he was killed by the River Meer or River Sirwan in 1934.

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{{reflist Kurdish people from the Ottoman Empire 19th-century Kurdish people 1898 births 1934 deaths