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Nawshirwan Mustafa, General coordinator of the Movement for Change (Gorran) (born 1944)
Nawshirwan Mustafa
Nawshirwan Mustafa 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.
Gorran Movement
The Gorran Movement or just Gorran (Change) is a Kurdish political party in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The party is led by Dana Ehmed Mecîd, it was formerly under the leadership of Umer Seyid Elî, and was founded in 2009 by Newşîrwan Mustefa and Qadir Hacî Elî. Gorran is the sixth largest party in the Kurdistan Region, having lost almost all of its voters (95%) since its foundation, and is now no longer represented in the Iraqi parliament.