Narmin Othman

Narmin Othman
نيرمين عثمان
Othman in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2008
Minister of Environment
In office
May 2005 – 21 December 2010
Preceded byAbderrahman Sadik Karim
Succeeded bySargon Lazar Slewa
Minister of Women's Affairs
In office
2004 – May 2005
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byAzhar Abdel Karim al-Shaikhli
Personal details
SpouseDaro Sheikh Noori (died 2004)

Narmin Othman[a] (born c. 1948) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician. She served as Minister of Environment in the government of Nouri al-Maliki, a post she also held in the Iraqi Transitional Government. She also served as Minister of Women's Affairs in the Iraqi Interim Government and a Minister of Education in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region from 1992.

She escaped an assassination attempt in August 2005 when gunmen attacked her convoy.[1]

Her family were active in the Kurdish peshmerga fighting Saddam Hussein, the latter of whom had her uncle and brother-in-law executed. Her husband, Daro Sheikh Noori, was imprisoned for five years where he was tortured.[2] She and her husband went into exile in Sweden in 1984, returning to Iraq in 1992. Her husband was a PUK Politburo member, who died in 2004, the same year that she was offered a post in the national government.

Notes

  1. ↑ Arabic: نيرمين عثمان; Kurdish: Nermîn Osman

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