Mohammed Haji Mahmoud is an Iraqi Kurdish politician and leader of the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party. He is widely known in Kurdistan as 'Kaka Hama' and gained a reputation for bravery fighting against Saddam Hussein's forces in the 1980s. More recently, he has led a Peshmerge force in the fight against Islamic State. Mahmoud is politically aligned with

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. In 2014 his son Atta Haji Mahmoud was killed in the village of Tal Ward, south of Kirkuk in a battle with the militant group

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. Mahmoud stated in a talk at Cambridge University in 2016 that he hoped to see an independent Kurdistan “working closely” with a stabilised Iraqi state. Mahmoud has said that issues between the Iraqi Kurdish parties are affected by the oil companies which each of them set up. “The Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Change Movement, the Kurdistan Islamic Union and the Kurdistan Islamic Group established five oil companies. They are also shareholders of oil. But their issues are about the amount which this nehas less than the other.”

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