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9-765: Franso Hariri was born in the city of Harir (70 km from Erbil ) in 1937, and graduated from the Erbil Teaching Institution in 1960. He worked for the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the early 1960s and was a close friend of the late Kurdish leader Mustafa Barzani . Franso held important positions in the KDP during the Kurdish Revolution. He was elected a member of the KDP Central Committee in 1979 and

18-657: A disciple of Sheikh Adi. The settlement of Salahaddin , where the residence of Masoud Barzani is situated, is believed to have been the ancestral estate of Pir Hassan ibn Mam (other name - Pir Mam). Harir is mentioned by Evliya Çelebi in Seyahatnâme in the 17th century as part of Kurdistan . The district was ruled by Mir Xanzad of the Soran Emirate during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV ( r.  1623–1640 ). The town

27-688: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Harir, Iraq Harir ( Kurdish : ھەریر , romanized :  Herîr ) is a town and sub-district in Erbil Governorate in Kurdistan Region , Iraq . The town is located in the Shaqlawa District . In the town, there was a church of Mar Yohanna. According to the Yazidi tradition , the ruler (Mîr) of Harîr was Pîr Hesinmeman (Pir Hassan ibn Mam), who

36-576: The Iraqi government and used to intern over 300 Kurdish families of the Barzani tribe from the village of Argush who were forcibly deported there on 26 June 1978. Amidst the 2003 invasion of Iraq , over one thousand paratroopers of the US 173rd Airborne Brigade landed at the airfield at Harir via airdrop on 26 March as part of Operation Northern Delay . This Kurdistan geographical location article

45-732: Was assassinated on his way to work on February 18, 2001 by four Kurdish Ansar al-Islam members. Two previous attempts had been made on his life in Erbil on 1994 and 1997 at the same place and the same street but he escaped from both. In honor of Hariri, the Kurdistan Regional Government declared three days of mourning and renamed the Erbil football stadium the Franso Hariri Stadium . Kurdistan Democratic Party This article about an Iraqi politician

54-492: Was destroyed and its population displaced by pro-government militia, who settled at Harir, in 1963 during the First Iraqi–Kurdish War , prior to which there were over 90 Assyrian households. The discovery of a mass grave, in which 37 Assyrians from Harir were buried, was announced by Kurdistan Regional Government 's Minister of Human Rights on 18 February 2006. A concentration camp was later established at Harir by

63-467: Was one of the close companions of Sheikh Adi and is considered Pîr of forty Pîrs (' Pîrê çil Pîra ') and head of the Pîr caste . Initially, upon hearing about Sheikh Adi's arrival, Pîr Hesinmeman declared a war on him with his 700 riders and decided to banish him. But when he came to Lalish and saw the dervish dressed in the garment, i.e. Sheikh Adi, he had a vision, after which he left worldly life and became

72-752: Was rebuilt in 1928 by Assyrian refugees, all of whom were adherents of the Church of the East and were originally from Shemsdin in the Hakkari mountains in Turkey , after they had departed the refugee camp at Baqubah in the aftermath of the Assyrian genocide in the First World War . The church of Mar Yohanna was built soon after. By 1938, Harir was inhabited by 485 Assyrians in 78 families. The town

81-489: Was the head of the KDP delegation in the Kurdistan regional parliament, the governor of Erbil, and a minister in the third Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil. He supported projects for the beautification and modernization of the city of Erbil . He was also well known as a strong supporter of education, health, and sport projects in the city. His son Fawzi Hariri was a former Minister of Industry of Iraq. Hariri

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