Mustafa Hijri
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Mustafa Hijri (1945- ) ( in Kurdish: Mistefa Hicrî ) is the current General Secretary of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan(KDPI). He was born in Naghadeh, in Western Azarbaijan province. He graduated from the College of Agriculture in Urmia in 1963, and began working as a teacher in Saqez. Later on he attended University of Tehran and received a Bachelor in Persian literature.
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He was elected as a member of Central Committee and Poltical Bureau of KDPI in 1979. On Sept. 17, 1992, Mustafa Hijri was appointed as General Secretary of KDPI. He promotes federalism as a model for governance and power sharing in Iran. In his view, federalism must based on geography and ethnicity, and this helps in resolving grievances of different ethnic groups in Iran. In addition he advocates peaceful coexistence between Kurds and Azeri people in northwestern Iran.
