Draft:Arshad al-Salihi
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Arshad al-Salihi (Arabic: أرشد الصالحی, Turkish: Erşat Salihi) is an Iraqi Turkmen politician[1] who has led the Iraqi Turkmen Front since May 2011[2] and has served as a member of the Iraqi Parliament since 2010.
Birth and Education
Al-Salihi was born in 1959 in the Musalla district of Kirkuk. He completed his primary and secondary education in Kirkuk and enrolled in the College of Science at the University of Baghdad in 1978.
Professional Activities
After finishing high school, al-Salihi began participating in pro-Turkmen political activities, which led to his arrest by the Ba'athist government in 1979. He spent nine years in Abu Ghraib Prison as a political prisoner. His older brother was executed by the government, and his family was exiled to southern Iraq.
Following the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, al-Salihi became the representative of the Iraqi Turkmen Front in his hometown of Musalla. After 2004, he served as the party's representative in Syria for four years. In 2008, at the Iraqi Turkmen Congress, he was elected as the party's president in Kirkuk. Arshad al-Salihi was elected to the Iraqi Parliament from Kirkuk in the 2010 parliamentary elections.
In 2011, his home was damaged in a mortar attack, and he survived an assassination attempt in 2013. In May 2011, he succeeded Saadeddin Erguch and assumed leadership of the Iraqi Turkmen Front. In 2014, he became the vice president of the party. Also in 2014, al-Salihi was elected as the head of the Human Rights Committee of the Iraqi Parliament.