Biography

He was born in 1925 in the village of Bedod, affiliated with the Piran sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. On June 21, 1932, he and his family fled to the Republic of Turkey. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a bachelor's degree from Tashkent University in the Department of Road Engineering. In 1959, after returning from the Soviet Union, he was appointed as an employee in the Erbil Agriculture Department. He knew Kurdish, Persian, Turkish, and Russian. He passed away on July 19, 2016, and was buried in the Darwish cemetery in the village of Bedod.

Struggle Record

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On September 5 of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Maydan Morik police station.

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he and his family headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzan Force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region, and he participated in the battles of Khalawa and Jaldian.

He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region on April 19, 1947, via (Khwakurk and the Barazgar plain) through the territory of Northern Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or head towards the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and head towards the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur and the Battle of the Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air complex surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military camp 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, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate.

After the poor treatment of his companions by Jafar Bagirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farms (Kolkhozes) (lands that people rented from the government and later gave a portion back 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 hardships of his companions, and he immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. Eventually, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, and in accordance with both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (a) of the tenth article and the implementation of the eleventh article, based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were granted a general amnesty.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan via the ship Grozia through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. 

 In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and participated in the battles. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he headed to Iran as a refugee and went to the Zewe complex and later settled in the city of Tabriz.

 In 1979, he participated in the Gulan Revolution and was a Sarpal (Platoon Leader). In 1980, he participated in the Battle of Haji Omaran, and in 1988, he participated in the Battle of Khwakurk. In 1991, he participated in the Uprising. In 1994, he returned to Kurdistan and settled in the village of Bedod. On December 16, 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, due to his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the journey towards the Soviet Union, and the Aylul Revolution، Gulan Revolution and the Uprising, by President Masoud Barzani he was awarded the Barzani the Immortal Medal.

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