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| ALAN | 27th August 2013 - 01:13 AM |
 
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Jihad Dlpak, hero’s struggle with cancer “I will return to art and acting.” These were the lasts words of Jihad Dlpak to be heard by his family and friends, Jihad Dlpak who rose to fame in the Zhalla drama series has now been stricken with cancer and is in a poor state of health. Jihad Dlpak, who is from Kirkuk, has been struggling with cancer for the past three months. Kirkuk Now, along with his family members and friends, visited Dlpak in the Hiwa Hospital on Wednesday, August 21. The family and friends told the last words of Dlpak to Kirkuk Now saying “Nothing can separate me with acting; if I get well, I will return to art and acting.” Jihad Dlpak, who is a well-known Kurdish actor, is 65 years old now and his acting career dates back almost four decades starting in 1971 when for the first time he played in Zhyani Kcha Lalaka (The life of the mute girl). Nasr Hassan, director and close family friend of Dlpak, was in the hospital as well and told Kirkuk Now “We have been working together since 1974. I met him during a festival in Baghdad, and he was participating in a play under the name of Blast for which they won the best play award at the festival.” He described Dlpak as one of the honest and expert actors, as he has been giving every minute of his life to art and acting with his most successful work probably being the Zhalla drama series in which Dlpak had the leading role. “His works have always been popular among the people and they were always the center of attention; he has talent, abilities and skills, but he has been struggling with health issues in the past decade and he has been in a very poor condition recently. I wish that he can make it,” Hassan added. Jihad Dlpak has visited Europe to undergo treatment and he was appearing to be getting better until recently when he was seen to be struggling with a poor health condition. “If I get well, I will return to art and acting and I will continue to serve Kurdish art.” These were the last words of Dlpak, as he cannot speak now, Hassan said. Runak Rauf, Dlpak’s spouse, who was sitting by the bed looking at her husband’s eyes told Kirkuk Now “His health has deteriorated in the past two months, and it gets worse day by day. He was previously diagnosed with prostate cancer but it has now spread all over his body.”  Jihad Dlpak in Kirkuk Four drama series in 2012 “The doctors have tried everything possible and yet he is getting worse day by day.” “The government officials, friends and fans have been in touch with us and I appreciate their support,” she added. Jihad Dlpak’s last work is the Gardalul drama series which tells the story of Kurdish revolutions in the Iraqi Kurdistan in the 1970s and Dlpak depicts Mama Risha, a famous Kurdish Peshmarga at that time. Profile: Jihad Zorab Ahmad, better known as Jihad Dlpak, was born in 1948 in Kirkuk. He finished his education in Kirkuk and graduated from Kirkuk Teachers College and started his acting career in 1971. His first play in 1971 wad under the name of Zhyani Kcha Lalaka (The Life of the Mute Girl) and his first drama series work in 1972 under the name of Bahari Dzraw (Stolen Spring). He has played and acted in numerous plays, drama series and movies. He married in 1983 and has five children, who all have chosen careers in acting. Ako Karim – Kirkuk Now Read more: http://kirkuknow.com/english/index.php/2013/08/jihad-dlpak-heros-struggle-with-cancer/#ixzz2d5Xat4lX |
| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour throu the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip & his studies later in 1879, in the 4th volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50,000 people, & he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen & Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
 
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