Jafar Pasha Mustafa ibn Abdul Rahman al-Askari ( September 15, 1885 , Baghdad , Ottoman Empire - October 30, 1936 , Baghdad , Kingdom of Iraq ) - Iraqi politician and statesman, brother-in-law of Prime Minister Nuri al-Saeed . First Minister of Defense of Iraq . Prime Minister of Iraq : from November 22, 1923 to August 3, 1924 and from November 21, 1926 to December 31, 1927 [3] .
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 | Iraqi Minister of Defense | |
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| May 17, 1935 - October 30, 1936 |
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| Predecessor | Rashid Khojah |
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| 2nd Iraqi Foreign Minister | |
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| October 19, 1931 - November 3, 1932 |
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| Predecessor | Abdullah Bey al-Damluji |
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| Successor | Abdul Qadir Rashid |
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| Iraqi Minister of Defense | |
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| March 23, 1930 - December 15, 1930 |
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| 6th Prime Minister of Iraq | |
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| November 21, 1926 - December 31, 1927 |
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| Predecessor | Abd al-Muhsin al-Saadoun |
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| Successor | Abd al-Muhsin al-Saadoun |
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| 4th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq | |
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| November 21, 1926 - January 18, 1928 |
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| Predecessor | Abd al-Muhsin al-Saadoun |
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| Successor | Ibrahim Naji al-Suveidi |
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 | 3rd Prime Minister of Iraq | |
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| November 22, 1923 - August 3, 1924 |
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| Predecessor | Abdul al-Muhsin Bey Al-Saadoun |
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| Successor | Yassin al-Hashimi |
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| 1st Iraqi Minister of Defense | |
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| October 16, 1920 - November 18, 1922 [1] |
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Born in the family of an Ottoman army officer, raised in Mosul. His surname comes from the name of the town of Askar, located near Kirkuk, in which his ancestors, who moved from the Medina, lived from the 16th century.
In 1901 he graduated from a military school in Baghdad, and in 1901 , with the rank of second lieutenant, he graduated from a military academy in Istanbul. In the years 1910-1912. held military training in Germany. During the First Balkan War, he was recalled and appointed company commander of the 11th Regiment of the 2nd Corps. After being wounded in October 1912, he was transferred to the General Staff of the 10th Corps. Enver Pasha was the head of the corps at that time. After the end of the Balkan Wars, he worked as an instructor at the military academy in Aleppo and passed exams at the academy of the General Staff.
During the First World War, he served as an officer in the Ottoman army , until at the Battle of Akakir (1916) he was captured by British troops. He managed to escape from captivity to the east of the empire, where he joined the Great Arab Revolt of 1916 [4] , becoming the commander of the Arab army after Aziz al-Misri, who fell out of favor. He took part in the approval of Emir Faisal on the Syrian and Iraqi throne. In 1919, Faisal appointed Jafar the Military Governor of Aleppo . He became one of the first members of the new Iraqi government under a British mandate. [5]
At the end of the First World War, he served as inspector general of the Syrian army (1919-1920) and military governor of the province of Aleppo. In 1920, King Faisal I included him in the first Iraqi government, where he became Minister of Defense. In 1923 and 1924 served as diplomatic envoy in London.
He served as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister twice. In this post in 1923 he was engaged in convening the Constituent Assembly and the approval of the British-Iraqi Treaty (1924). In the government of Yassin al-Hashimi, Jafar al-Askari took up the post of Minister of Defense. In October 1936, officers led by General Bakr Sidki, with the support of the leader of the nationalist organization Al-Ahani , Hikmet Sulaiman, carried out a military coup. During the coup, Jafar al-Askari was killed [6] . About 25 km north of Baghdad, his car was stopped by six officers, who fired about 30 shots [7] .
