Mahmoud Othman

Mahmoud Othman
Member of the Council of Representatives
Assumed office
March 2005
Constituency Sulaymaniyah
Member of the National Assembly
In office
June 2004  March 2005
Member of the Governing Council
In office
July 2003  28 June 2004
Personal details
Born 1938 (age 7778)
Sulaymaniyah, Kingdom of Iraq
Nationality Iraq
Political party Independent
Other political
affiliations
Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party
Kurdistan Democratic Party
(1962 - 1980)
Alma mater University of Baghdad
Occupation Doctor and politician
Religion Sunni Islam

Mahmoud Ali Othman (born 1938) was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. A Kurd and Sunni Muslim, Othman was a member of the Political Bureau Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). He then founded the Kurdish Socialist Party. He was also the Chief Negotiator in the 1970 agreement with the Baath Party. He is now a leading member of the Iraqi National Assembly.

Othman was born in Sulaimaniyah. He became politically active at the age of 18. He completed a degree in Medicine at the University of Baghdad where he received first-class honours.He has five daughters and three sons.

He was also a key player in the Kurdish struggle for autonomy. Othman is now an independent politician best known for his press interviews. He was also a front runner in the 1992 election in the Kurdistan Region. He currently plays an advisory role towards kurdish national issues, taking no active part in recent elections in 2009.

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