{"id":"tahir-yahya","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tahir-yahya","language":"en","name":"Tahir Yahya","name_en":"Tahir Yahya","name_ne":null,"description":"Iraqi politician and former prime minister (1916−1986)","headline":"Iraqi politician and former prime minister (1916−1986)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Tahir Yahya was Prime Minister of Iraq twice, from 1963 to 1965 and a short term in 1967 to 1968. He was educated at the Baghdad Military College and the Staff College. Born in Tikrit 1916, he was the 4th child to Mulla Yahya el-ogaily, a prominent tobacco merchant between North and Central Iraq. At the age of sixteen, he joined the Baghdad Teachers College, then became a teacher in Baghdad for one year after graduation. He then pursued further education in military sciences. He was a cavalry officer and played polo for the Iraqi army. He led the Iraqi armored company where he was wounded in the battle at the Kfar Masaryk, earning two medals bestowed by Crown Prince Abd al-Ilāh.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1916","date":"1916"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1799369#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Tikrit","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165444"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1799369#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"19 May 1986","date":"1986-05-19"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1799369#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Baghdad","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1530"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1799369#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Iraq","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q796"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1799369#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1799369#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Arab Socialist Union","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16825331"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1799369#P102"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Prime Minister of Iraq (10 July 1967 – 17 July 1968)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1476165","start":"1967-07-10","end":"1968-07-17"},{"text":"Minister of Defense (2 March 1964 – 3 September 1965)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22690703","start":"1964-03-02","end":"1965-09-03"},{"text":"Prime Minister of Iraq (20 November 1963 – 6 September 1965)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1476165","start":"1963-11-20","end":"1965-09-06"},{"text":"Chief of the Iraqi General Staff (8 February 1963 – 20 November 1963)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110517194","start":"1963-02-08","end":"1963-11-20"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1799369#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahir_Yahya","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1799369"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Tahir Yahya born?","a":"Tahir Yahya was born on 1916 in Tikrit."},{"q":"What positions has Tahir Yahya held?","a":"Positions held by Tahir Yahya include: Prime Minister of Iraq (1967–1968); Minister of Defense (1964–1965); Prime Minister of Iraq (1963–1965); Chief of the Iraqi General Staff (1963–1963)."}],"related":[{"name":"Saddam Hussein","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/saddam-hussein"},{"name":"Jalal Talabani","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jalal-talabani"},{"name":"Nouri al-Maliki","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nouri-al-maliki"},{"name":"Masoud Barzani","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/masoud-barzani"},{"name":"Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ahmed-hassan-al-bakr"},{"name":"Haider al-Abadi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/haider-al-abadi"},{"name":"Abdul-Karim Qasim","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdul-karim-qasim"},{"name":"Nuri al-Said","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/nuri-al-said"},{"name":"Yasin al-Hashimi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yasin-al-hashimi"},{"name":"Abdul Muhsin al-Sa'dun","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abdul-muhsin-al-sa-dun"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/tahir-yahya-23e50ad696.jpg","width":450,"height":600,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Unknown author Unknown author","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tahir_Yahya_1.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Tahir Yahya","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahir_Yahya","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q1799369","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1799369","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Tahir Yahya 1.jpg by Unknown author Unknown author (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tahir_Yahya_1.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Tahir Yahya, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Tahir Yahya 1.jpg — Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain.","cite":"\"Tahir Yahya\". DigiNepal. Last updated 7 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/tahir-yahya. Retrieved 21 October 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-07T11:48:10Z","facts_checked":"2026-10-21","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/tahir-yahya","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/tahir-yahya","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/tahir-yahya?lang=ne"}}