Awni Yusuf was an Iraqi Kurdish politician and lawyer. He served as a judge at the Kirkuk Court of Cassation,Dann, Uriel. Iraq Under Qassem: A Political History, 1958-1963. Jerusalem: Israel University Press, 1969. p. 220 and was appointed Minister of Public Works in Abd al-Karim Qasim's cabinet in mid-July 1959.Farouk-Sluglett, Marion, and Peter Sluglett. Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship. London [u.a.]: Tauris, 2001. p. 70
Yusuf was considered as close to the Iraqi Communist Party and the United Democratic Party of Kurdistan. He was dismissed from the cabinet on November 15, 1960.Farouk-Sluglett, Marion, and Peter Sluglett. Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship. London [u.a.]: Tauris, 2001. p. 76Ghareeb, Edmund, and Beth Dougherty. Historical Dictionary of Iraq. Historical dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East, no. 44. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2004. p. 359
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