Sarteep Shawket Beg Ahmed Beg  Manhood Pasha Jeff

Sarteep Jeff was born on 20 July 1944 in Kalar, and despite the fact that his father owned most of the lands in Shahrazoor district and (Sarawi Siobhan Agha), his father decided that it was preferable to stay in Kalar village with his uncles Dawood Beg and Kareem Beg the leader of the Jaff tribe. His mother Ameena Khanum the daughter of Reza Beg ben Fattaah Beg ben Mohamed Pasha Jaff.  

Sarteep completed his elementary school in Kalar, and then moved, with his family to Baghdad in 1959 to continue his secondary schooling in at the Sharqeia School. He involved himself in politics from early age when in 1960 he became in-charge of the Kurdish student union of the Sharqeia, and he had not reached 16 years of age yet, and also joined the Kurdish Democratic Party.  

 In 1961 he joined AlHikma University (the American University) in Baghdad to study civil engineering, while also heading the Kurdish organizations in the university.  

 He moved to Baghdad University and obtained a Diploma in industrial engineering; and became a member of the students committee at Baghdad University. Afterwards he moved to the Mustanseria University and obtained a degree in civil engineering with honours, and came top of his group. He then studied law and politics to obtained a degree in that field.  

In 1963, and because of changing political conditions in Iraq when Kurdish parties began facing restrictions on their activities and became unable to function openly, the Kurds reverted to underground struggle.  

 Sarteep Jaff played prominent part at that time when Mr. Nosherwan Mostafa, the person in-charged of the Party, asked him to hold a secret meeting at his father’s house in Baghdad, a meeting that was attended by the martyr Mohamed Sideeq, Mohamed Abdul Wahab, Ali Kamal Haj Abdulla, and Nosherwan Mostafa, to draw out a plan for the Kurdish political activities regardless of the difficult circumstances at the time.  

 In 1966 he was a member of the leadership committee of the students in Baghdad together with Dr. Nozad Salih, engineer Salar Jalal, and Mohamed Abdul Wahab when they were visited by Mr. Jalal Talibani (Mam Jalal) during a secret meeting of the students’ committee to give them the necessary instructions.  

 In 1968 he became member of the Baghdad district committee and in-charge of the Kurdish Students Union in Baghdad together with Mr. Shah Zad Saeeb, Serbest Bamerni, and Mohamed Abdul Wahab. He was also a candidate at the students union’s conference in Gla Zerde in Sulaimania; then he became member of the leadership committee of Kurdish civil servants in Baghdad with the martyr Rushdi Ali Shereef, Kamal Shali, and Ibrahim Beshda Ry.  

 In 1968 and during the meeting of the local committee in Baghdad, he was asked to accompany Mr. Jalal Talibani to conference in his own car to the conference with martyr Rushdi Ali Shereef and Kamal Shali. In 1970 he was elected to the administrative council of the Iraqi engineers union representing Jalal  Talibani’s group.  

 Sarteep Jaff was a member of the delegation that visited Sudan with Chairman of the Iraqi engineers, where pamphlets and books were distributed delegates from all parts of the word to enlighten them of the Kurdish case and the struggle for the achievement of their national rights of the Kurdish people.  

Sarteep was a committee member that undertook to unify the two groups of the Barzani and Talibani, and contacted engineer Sami Abdul Rahman and engineer Dara Tawfeeq and it agreed to hold a combined meeting that was attended by Mr. Dara Tawfeeq, engineer Sardar Abdul Rahman, engineer Kamal Arif, and other Kurdish engineers.  

In 1974 and due to personal circumstances, he left to Western Germany where he learnt the language and was recruited by a German company (Lewis Fetcher) to become its representative in the Middle East and Iraq.  

 In 1976 he became the manager of a project of the company in Dewaneia for the construction cotton-weaving factory there. At that time thousands of Kurds were deported to the south of Iraq living in miserable conditions, unemployed, and deprived of livelihood. Sarteep Jaff employed many of them, and about 500 of the Barzani deportees.  

Sarteep Jaff continued the work and executed projects for the company for more than 10 years, where most of the employees were Kurds. He later worked on his own in contracting, business, and industrial works in Baghdad and Kurdistan. He was involved in philanthropy helping needy families.  

He developed tendencies to Sufism and became an advocate of the thoughts of Sheikh Abdul Qadir AlGelani, and visited the Holy Kaaba.

He married Taban Jaff the daughter of Dawood Beg Jaff & have four daughter ,Shler , Sham ,Sima , and Saiah & one son , Ahmad.

Taban

Shler

Sham

Sima