Biography

He was born in 1926 in the village of Shingil, affiliated with the Barzan district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a bachelor's degree in the mechanics department from the University of Sho in Moscow. In 1959, he was appointed as an employee at the spinning and weaving factory in Mosul. In 1970, he was re-appointed as an employee at the carpet factory in Erbil. He knew the Kurdish, Persian, and Russian languages.

Struggle Record

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

 After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, on October 11, 1945, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan. On April 29 of the same year, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region.

 After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 3, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Nalos, and on March 19, he participated in the battles of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh in Eastern Kurdistan. He participated in the battles of Arab and Kuikan, Girdi Qalati, Sofian, Bab Khalaqi near Sofian, and Galazni.

He was among the Peshmerga who, on April 19, 1947, returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region through (Khwakurk and the Bazargir plain) via 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 Argush and gave them the choice to stay or head towards the Soviet Union. There, all the 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 the Qotur Valley and the Battle of the Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, they crossed the Aras River, which lies 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 compound 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 the 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 officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, they were taught Kurdish language lessons daily for four hours by some of their companions who were literate.

After the poor treatment of the companions by Jafar Bagirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound 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 to the collective villages of the Soviet Union, where they worked on collective farms (Kolkhoz) (lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share).

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. 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 according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article, and by working with article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were covered by the 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 port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Grozia. 

In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and fought in the battles of Mount Pires, Bijil, Ble, Barzan, Shele Baraz, and Mala. On the night of June 14-15, 1963, he participated in the Battle of Sari Akre and his left leg was wounded.

 In 1974, he returned to the ranks of the Peshmerga in Haji Omaran and worked on the Dushka weapon. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he headed to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee, went to the Zewe compound, and from there was transferred to the city of Mashhad and worked. In 1976, he participated in the  Gulan Revolution and was a Head of Branch. In 1980, he returned to the Zewe compound and served in the Party's weapons and ammunition depot. In July 1981, in the village of Helej, he was a guard at the shrine of the immortal Barzani. In 1991, he participated in the Uprising, then was transferred to the social department of the Barzan region, and was retired in 1993. On December 16, 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, because of his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the path towards the Soviet Union, Aylul Revolution، Gulan Revolution and the Uprising, by President Masoud Barzani he was awarded the Barzani Medal.

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