Homayoun Ardalan

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Homayon Ardalan
ھۆمایون ئەردەڵان
Born2 February 1950
Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, Imperial State of Iran
Died17 September 1992(1992-09-17) (aged 42)
Berlin, Germany
Cause of deathAssassination
Resting placePère Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France
CitizenshipIran
TitleThe Official representative of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) in Germany
Term1989–1992
Political partyDemocratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI)


Homayoun Ardalan (Kurdish: ھۆمایون ئەردەڵان, Homayoun Ardalan; 2 February 1950 – 17 September 1992) was the official representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Germany and a member of the Central Committee of this party. Ardalan was killed along with Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli and Nouri Dehkordi during the 1992 Mykonos restaurant assassinations, Berlin.[1][2][3][4]

Early life and career[edit]

Homayoun Ardalan was born on 2 February 1950, in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, Iran. He was from the Ardalan family of Saqqez in Rojhalat and the son of Saifullah Khan Ardalan. With the beginning of the Revolution of 1978, he dropped out of Kurdistan University in Sanandaj and became a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran. In 1983, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Party, after which he was transferred to the Saqqez Party Committee. After the Eighth Party Congress in 1987, he left for Germany to represent the Democratic Party in that country. He lived in Frankfurt.[5]

Death[edit]

Graves of Fattah Abdoli, Sadegh Charafkandi and Homayoun Ardalan, three victims of the Mykonos assassination attempt, in the Père Lachaise Cemetery (Paris).

Ardalan was murdered in the Mykonos restaurant assassinations. On 17 September 1992.[6] On the evening of September 17, at 10:47 p.m., two masked men burst into the back room of Mykonos restaurant and began shooting at the four Kurdish exiles around the table. Three of them died where they fell: Dr Sadegh Sharafkandi, the Secretary General of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), Fattah Abdoli and Homayoun Ardalan both PDKI Central Committee members. The fourth person was Nouri Dehkordi, a Kurdish political activist who was serving as a translator. Dehkordi was struck by seven bullets and later died in hospital.[7][8]

In the Mykonos trial, the courts found Kazem Darabi, an Iranian national who worked as a grocer in Berlin, and Lebanese Abbas Rhayel, guilty of murder and sentenced them to life in prison. Two other Lebanese, Youssef Amin and Mohamed Atris, were convicted of being accessories to murder. In its 10 April 1997 ruling, the court issued an international arrest warrant for Iranian intelligence minister Hojjat al-Islam Ali Fallahian [9] after declaring that the assassination had been ordered by him with knowledge of supreme leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and president Ayatollah Rafsanjani.[10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ US Virtual Embassy reminds the Iranian people of Mykonos Terror, Kurdpa, 2018.
  2. ^ Murder at Maykonos: Anatomy of a Political Assessination, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, 2007.
  3. ^ 23rd Anniversary of the assassination of Iranian Kurdish leader Dr. Sharafkandi, Ekurd Daily, 2015.
  4. ^ A Vicious act of Terror, A Historic Verdict, Iran Round Table, 2014.
  5. ^ Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, Roya Hakakian, 2011.
  6. ^ Le triple meurtre d’opposants kurdes d’Iran à Berlin en 1992, kurdistan-au-feminin, 2018.
  7. ^ Iran: On the twentieth anniversary of the Mykonos restaurant assassinations, Worker Liberty, 2012.
  8. ^ "Hostage - 1". Yekta Uzunoglu. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  9. ^ Israel fails to prevent Germany freeing Iranian.
  10. ^ Hakakian, Roya (4 October 2007). "The End of the Dispensable Iranian". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 31 January 2009.

External links[edit]

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