the biography
He was born in 1925 in the village of Korki, which belongs to the Kurtu district in the Mergasur district of Erbil Governorate. He studied in the Soviet Union and obtained a certificate from the Institute - Agricultural Department of the University of Dvinko in the Soviet Union. He was fluent in both Kurdish and Russian languages and died on the night of March 24/25, 2011.
pages of struggle
In 1943 he joined the ranks of the second Barzan revolution, and on November 20, 1943 he participated in the capture of the Kurtu police station, and on November 10, 1943 he participated in the capture of the Mazni police station, and on August 19, 1945 all his movable and immovable property was confiscated by order of the Iraqi military court, and on September 5, 1945 he participated in the capture of the Maidan Murek police station, and he also participated in the battles of Konah Rofiyi, Beli, Barzan and Rezan.
After the setback of the second Barzan revolution, on October 11, 1945, he headed to eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he joined the Peshmerga forces in the Barzan force of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic army. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region, and on May 3, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Malqarni.
After the collapse of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, on March 3, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Alus and on March 13/14, 1947, in the Battle of Kujar.
He was among his Peshmerga comrades, and on April 19, 1947, he returned via (Khwakurk 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.
After arriving in the Soviet Union on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in 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 the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 23, they received military uniforms and underwent eight hours of daily military training under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they received four hours of daily Kurdish language lessons 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, a general amnesty was granted to Barzani and his associates according to Articles (3) and (7) and paragraph (a) of Article (10), and Article (11) was implemented based on Law No. (19) as amended in 1959.
The Republic of Iraq was founded in 1958 under the leadership of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned with his companions to Kurdistan on the ship Crusia via the port of Basra in southern Iraq, and settled in the village of Korki. On September 11, 1961, he participated in the September Revolution and in the battles between the areas of Beli, Barzan, and Mount Pirafat. On June 14/15, 1963, he participated in the Battle of Seri Akri, and in the Battle of Koriz in 1967. After the setback of the September Revolution in 1975, he returned to his birthplace in his village.
In 1979, the Iraqi government transferred him to Diana. In 1983, he moved to the Islamic Republic of Iran as a refugee. A year later, he participated in the Gulan Revolution, holding the position of (Sarpal - Commander of a platoon). He returned to the Mergasur region at the head of a detachment. In 1987, he participated in the battles of Mergasur and Khwakurk. In 1988, during the chemical attack on the Bahdinan region, he returned to eastern Kurdistan and settled in the Zewa complex. On November 27, 1996, he returned to Kurdistan. He was wounded several times and retired in 1998. On December 16, 2010, during the convening of the thirteenth conference of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, President Masoud Barzani awarded him the Barzani Medal in recognition and appreciation of his struggle and resistance in the second Barzan Revolution and in the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, his accompanying Barzani and his comrades to the Soviet Union, and his contributions to the September and Gulan Revolutions.
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