Biography

He was born in 1925 in the village of Bersiavi, affiliated with the Piran sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a degree in agriculture from the University of Tashkent. After his return from the Soviet Union, he was appointed as an employee in the Mosul Agriculture Department in 1959. He passed away on December 1, 2000, in the village of Bersiavi.

Struggle Record

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 15 of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Birekapra police station, and on October 20, he participated in the capture of the Shirwan Mazni police station. For this reason, on August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. That same year, on September 5, he participated in the capture of the Maydan Moriki police station. After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan on October 11. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in the Republic of Kurdistan. After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Nalos in Eastern Kurdistan on March 3, 1947.

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

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Argosh on May 6, 1947, and gave them the choice of staying or going to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to 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 lies on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, they 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 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 moved 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, for four hours a day, they were taught the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.

After the mistreatment 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 compound near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective farms of the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz fields (lands that people rented from the government and later gave a share back to the government).

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, 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 the aforementioned person 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 by applying Article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were covered by 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 port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Gruzia. 

 In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a special guard of the immortal Barzani until 1975. On September 29, 1971, he was wounded in the plot at the headquarters of the immortal Barzani in Haji Omaran. After the defeat of the Aylul Revolution in 1975, he went as a refugee to the Kingdom of Iran to the Ziwe camp, and from there he was moved to Semnan and later settled in the city of Qazvin. In 1980, he returned to Silivana and was made the head of the Peshmerga guards of Masoud Barzani.

 In 1991, he returned to Kurdistan and participated in the Uprising. In 1995, he was retired. On August 16, 1996, within the framework of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, due to his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the march towards the Soviet Union, the Aylul Revolution, and the Uprising, he was awarded the Medal of the Immortal Barzani by President Masoud Barzani.

 

 

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