the biography

Timz Selki was born in 1924 in the village of Selki, in the Shirwan Mazin sub-district of Mergasur district, Erbil Governorate. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married to Ruhan, with whom he had a child. He married a second time in the Soviet Union to Valentina Dajichka, but he did not bring her with him upon his return. After his return, he married Misrikhan Shet Mohammed, with whom he had three sons and five daughters. He was appointed as an employee in Rawanduz in 1960. He was fluent in Kurdish, Russian, Turkish, and Persian. He died on August 5, 2014, and was buried in the village of Selki.

pages of struggle

Tims Silkie joined the mandatory military service in Kirkuk in 1942. After the outbreak of the Second Barzan Rebellion, he joined the ranks of the rebels and participated in the capture of the Shandar police station on October 2, 1943, and the capture of the Khayra Zuk police station on October 12, 1943. As a result, on August 19, 1945, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated by order of the Iraqi Military Court. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Maidan Murek police station, and on September 14, he was wounded in the Battle of Jabal Birs. His father, Arb Qatran, was martyred in 1945 in the Battle of Wadi Biaw.

On October 11, 1945, after the setback of the second Barzan revolution, he crossed with Mustafa Barzani and his companions to eastern Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad on March 31, 1946, he defended the republic within the framework of the Barzan force, and he had a distinguished and active role.

After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic on March 19, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Saqqez, and on April 19, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region of eastern Kurdistan, where he was wounded, but he resolved to continue the struggle under the leadership of General Mustafa Barzani.

After the collapse of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan on March 3, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Nilus in eastern Kurdistan and in the battles of Naghda and Shino on March 19, 1947.

He was among his Peshmerga comrades, and he returned on 19/4/1947 via (Khakurk and the Barazkara Plain) through the lands of northern Kurdistan to the Shirwan and Mazuri regions.

Upon their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Arkush on May 15, 1947, and gave them the choice of staying or going to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and head to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, they accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union, participating in the battles of Qatur and the Maku Bridge. After great hardship and exhaustion, they crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, which lies on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.

Upon their arrival in the Soviet Union on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in the city of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, for forty days in an open compound surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. By order of the Soviet government, they were later distributed to the Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar regions of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. On December 23, they received military uniforms and underwent eight hours of daily military training under the supervision of Azerbaijani officers. Simultaneously, they received four hours of daily Kurdish language instruction from some of their more educated comrades.

After Jafar Bakirov's mistreatment of his comrades, Barzani decided to move his military assembly from Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Girjuk complex near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in groups by train to cooperative villages in the Soviet Union and worked on kolkhoz farms (land that people rented from the government and then paid a share of to the government).

After great efforts and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani spoke about the suffering of his comrades, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani’s comrades. The committee’s final decision was that they should be gathered in the city of Frivsky, so in November 1951 he went to the Soviet city of Frivsky.

Following the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, he and his companions were included in the general amnesty according to Articles (3) and (7) and paragraph (a) of Article (10), and the application of Article (11) pursuant to Law No. (19) amended for the year 1959.

The Republic of Iraq was established in 1958 under the leadership of Abdul Karim Qasim. Tims Silkie and his companions returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, aboard the ship Crusia via the port of Basra in southern Iraq.

Participate in September Revolution The glorious revolution began in 1961, and he served as a regimental commander in 1963 in the Soran region, and also as a regimental commander in 1967 in the Badinan region. He participated in the battles of (Dashtabil, Nliwan, Sharansh, Kani Masi, Kli Zinta, Lomana, Midanka Rovia, Kli Duhok, Sari Amedi, Jabal Matin, Jabal Bradost, Hawdian, Tahira, Miraw, Kani Spi, Kober). He served as a regimental commander and the local party official for Amedi.

He sought refuge in Iran in 1975 after the setback September Revolution He resided in the Ziyeh complex, then he was transferred to the city of Fereydunshahr in Mazandaran province, then to the city of Jahrom, then to Kuhsank in Mashhad province, and in 1977 he moved to the Saveh complex.

In 1979 he participated in the Gulan Revolution, and was a member of the Ninth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and a military commander in the Khabat Force. After the Peshmerga forces were reorganized in 1986, he was appointed commander of the party’s senior forces and also took responsibility for protecting the Barzani shrine in the village of Helj.

He returned to southern Kurdistan in 1993 and settled in the Pirmam district. In 1996, he retired. On August 16, 1996, as part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations and in recognition of his struggle and sacrifices, September Revolution Secondly, in the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, and for his participation in Barzani's march to the Soviet Union, and in the September and Gulan revolutions, he was awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani. He died on August 5, 2014 and was buried in the village of Silki.

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- Masoud Barzani, Barzani and his wife, Rezgari Khwazi Kurd 1931-1958, (Dehek - Chapkhaneh Khabat - 1998).

- Text of the decision of the General Amnesty Committee to restore the reputation of the martyrs of the Barzan Revolution, Rizgari Magazine, Issue 3, 2, Al-Rabita Press, Baghdad, April 1, 1959.

- Archive of the Encyclopedia Authority of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.