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Nawshirwan Mustafa
2017May, 19

Nawshirwan Mustafa

Nawshirwan Mustafa, General coordinator of the Movement for Change (Gorran) (b. 1944)
Nawshirwan Mustafa (22 December 1944 – 19 May 2017) (Kurdish: نەوشیروان مستەفا) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the General Coordinator of the Movement for Change and the leader of the opposition in the Kurdistan Region from 1 April 2009 to his death on 19 May 2017.

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