Biography

Abdulrahman Gomeşini was born in 1917 in the village of Goptepe in the Shorsh district, which is part of the Koya district of Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he had two wives; his first wife was named Jawahir Muhyiddin and his second wife was named Nayla Hamad Rasul. He had four sons named Ziyad, Zagros, Bege, and Aware. Abdulrahman studied in the Soviet Union and received a degree in forestry. While in the Soviet Union, he married a woman named Kafiya, and they had two daughters named Raya (1954) and Vera (1957).

After returning from the Soviet Union, he worked as an agricultural supervisor at the Kelek Forestry Office. In 1960, he was transferred to the Koya Forestry Office. After the collapse of the September Revolution, he returned to Koya from Nasiriyah in 1978. In the same year, he returned to his profession and became a training commander. He spoke both Kurdish and Russian. He passed away on July 22, 1979, in Koya and was buried in the Gomeşini cemetery.

Work History

Abdulrahman Gomeşini joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943. On August 8, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Mergasor police base. On August 19, 1945, by the decision of the Iraqi Military Court, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated.

After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution on October 11, 1945, he crossed into East Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in Barzani's force of the Army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez area. After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naqada and Oshnavieh on March 19, 1947. He was one of the Peshmerga who returned to the Sherwan and Mazuri regions on April 19, 1947, via Khwakurk and the Berazger Plain through North Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Ergoş on May 15, 1947, and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he went to the Soviet Union with General Mustafa Barzani and participated in the Battle of Qotur Valley and the Battle of the Mako Bridge. After many hardships and difficulties, he crossed the Aras River on the border of Iran and the Soviet Union into the Soviet Union on June 18, 1947.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in a closed camp in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days, which was surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. Later, by the decision of the Soviet state, they were distributed in the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and underwent 8 hours of military training daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they received four hours of Kurdish language lessons daily from some of their educated companions.

After the bad treatment of Jafar Bakirov towards his companions, it was decided on August 29, 1948, to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Chirchik community near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and they continued their military training there.

In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farms (lands that people had received from the state and then gave a share to the government).

After much effort and the sending of several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the suffering and pain of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and in the end, the committee's decision was to gather them all in the city of Vriviski. For this reason, the aforementioned went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, a general amnesty was granted to him and his companions on February 25, 1959, according to articles 3 and 7, paragraph (a) of article 10, and article 11 of the 1959 amendment law.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, the aforementioned returned to Kurdistan with his companions via the ship Girozya through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1960, he was a representative to the Fifth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and was later appointed as an administrator of the Koya District Committee and was responsible for the military organization. For six months, he was the deputy of the 3rd Battalion and was responsible for the military department. In 1961, he participated in the September Revolution , participated in the battles of Jaldiyan, the battles of Bawaji, Zozik, Qopchi, and Kores. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution , he migrated to Iran. In 1978, he returned to Kurdistan, then was transferred by the Iraqi government to southern Iraq for a month and settled in Nasiriyah.

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