Kemal Kirkuki
Kemal Kirkuki is an Iraqi Kurdish politician of the Kurdistan [Democratic Party].
Kirkuki was born as Mohammed Qadir Abdullah in Kirkuk in 1954, and studied in a medical college. He joined Peshmerga at the age of fourteen. He was a member of the political bureau of Kurdistan Democratic Party. He was elected Speaker of the Iraqi [Kurdistan Parliament|Parliament] from August 2009 to February 2012. Later, Kirkuki was a regional commander of Peshmerga forces against ISIS.