Biography

Abdulla Suleiman Abdulrahman was born in 1920 in the village of Barzan in the Barzan district, which is part of the Mergasor district of Erbil province. On 21 June 1932, he migrated with his family to the Republic of Turkey. After going to the Soviet Union, he married a woman named Yushka there, and they had two sons and a daughter named Najih, Naji, and Amina. Abdullah Suleiman studied in the Soviet Union and received his degree in agriculture. After returning to Kurdistan, he worked at the Bley Agriculture Office in 1959. He knew Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian well. He passed away in 1979 in the city of Diwaniyah in southern Iraq and was buried there.

Work History

Abdullah Suleiman Abdulrahman joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943 and participated in the fighting. On 19 August 1945, by the decision of the Iraqi Military Urfi Court, all his movable and immovable properties were confiscated.

On 11 October 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he crossed into East Kurdistan with Mustafa Barzani and his companions. After the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on 31 March 1946, he defended the republic within the Barzan forces.

After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naghadeh and the Battle of Oshnavieh in East Kurdistan. He was among those Peshmerga who returned to the Sherwan and Mazuri region on 19 April 1947 through the Xwakurk and the Berazgir Plain within the territory of North Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Ergoş on 15 May 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 23 May 1947, he went to the Soviet Union with General Mustafa Barzani and participated in the Battle of Qotur Valley and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After many hardships and difficulties, on 18 June 1947, he crossed the Aras River on the border of Iran and the Soviet Union into the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on 19 June 1947, he and all his companions were placed in a closed camp in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan, surrounded by barbed wire for forty days. 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 10 December 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 the 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 29 August 1948 to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the village of Chirchik 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 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 sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the pain and suffering of his companions, and he immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. 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 14 July 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on 25 February 1959, according to articles 3 and 7 and paragraph (a) of article 10 and article 11 of the 1959 amendment law, a general amnesty was granted to him and his companions.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim. The aforementioned returned to Kurdistan on 16 April 1959 with his companions on the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1961, he became a Peshmerga of the September Revolution and participated in the fighting. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he was exiled to southern Iraq by the Iraqi government.

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