Omer Fattah Hussain | |
Office: | 4th Prime Minister of Kurdistan (PUK) |
President: | Jalal Talebani |
Term Start: | 4 July 2004 |
Term End: | 14 June 2005 |
Predecessor: | Barham Salih |
Successor: | Position abolished |
Office2: | 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan |
Term Start2: | 1 March 2006 |
Term End2: | 24 February 2009 |
President2: | Massoud Barzani |
Primeminister2: | Nechervan Barzani |
Predecessor2: | Post Created |
Successor2: | Imad Ahmad Sayfour |
Birth Date: | 1948 |
Birth Place: | As-Sulaymaniyah, Iraq |
Spouse: | Kafia Sleman |
Children: | Ara Omer Fatah, Ava Omer Fatah |
Residence: | Sulaymanyah |
Nationality: | Kurdish |
Omer Fattah Hussain (Born: As-Sulaymaniyah) is the former deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government[1] (KRG) in Iraq. Due to political problems in the PUK, he handed his resignation in on 24 February 2009.[2] He also served as acting Prime Minister of Jalal Talebani's Suleimaniyeh based Kurdish administration from July 2004 (when Barham Salih resigned to become Deputy Prime Minister for the Iraqi Interim Government until June 2005 with the re-unification of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous Republic.[3]