Ibrahim Biro (, ; born July 7, 1965) is a Syrian Kurdish politician who served as the head of the

Yekiti Kurdistan Party – Syria The Yekiti Kurdistan Party – Syria (Previously: Kurdish Yekiti Party in Syria), (), (). or PYKS is a Kurdish party active in Kurdish areas of Syria, seeking Kurdish federalism in Syria. He is also active in areas and neighborhoods with a Kurdis ...

from March 2013 until December 2018. He was born in the city of

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, located in Syria’s

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. Biro completed his secondary education in Amuda and went on to study at the Intermediate Institute of Railways in

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, graduating in 1985. He later worked as a civil servant for the Syrian Railways Corporation.

Political activity

Syrian regime forces arrested BİRO in 1993 in the city of

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, in the province of

Hasakah Al-Hasakah (; / ; ) is a city in northeastern Syria and the capital of the Al-Hasakah Governorate. With a 2023 estimated population of 422,445, Al-Hasakah is populated by Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians and a smaller number of Armenians and Chechens. Al ...

, as a result of his political work among the Kurdish movement in Syria. In 2009 he was again arrested by the Syrian security forces and sentenced to eight months in prison. In March 2011, when the Syrian anti-Syrian demonstrations reached northern Syria, Syrian security forces arrested "Biro" for his participation in the current demonstrations. He was sentenced to 11 months in prison and released in March 2012. He was a member of the Kurdish Shegile Party in Syria (حزب الشغيلّة الكردي) in 1982. He was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Yekiti Kurdistan Party - Syria at his third conference in 2000 and was also elected a member of the political bureau of the Yekiti party in 2006. He was elected secretary of the party at his seventh conference in mid-March 2013, where he held the position until December 23, 2018. He served as president of the

Kurdish National Council The Kurdish National Council in Syria (KNCS, , ENKS; ) or Kurdish National Council (KNC) is a Kurds in Syria, Syrian Kurdish political party. While the KNC had initially more international support than the ruling Democratic Union Party (Syria), ...

in Syria and its military wing the Peshmerga Roj, which includes 13 parties of the Syrian Kurdish parties and a number of women's and youth organizations and independent figures opposed to the Syrian regime In 2013, representing all the mass In the

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. He was elected as secretary of the Yekiti Kurdistan Party - Syria at the 7th Congress in mid-March 2013 to 23 December 2018 through the 8th Congress of the Party. He was elected President of the

in Syria in 2015, to 11 December 2017

Abduction and exile

Biro was kidnapped by the

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forces of the Democratic Union Party of the Syrian branch of the

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on August 13, 2016, in the market of the city of

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. He was held in an unknown location until the next day, across the Syrian border with the

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of Iraq. After receiving several threats by the leaders and members of the Democratic Union Party, to decide the other exile outside

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