Biography

Ismail Abdullah was born in 1917 in the village of Pendro, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married; his wife's name was Halima Faqo Zahir, and they had only one son named Tahsin. He passed away in 1985 in Sidakan, affiliated with Erbil Governorate.

Struggle Record

On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located 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 comrades, they were placed for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan. 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, Ayolakh, 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, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours daily, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their comrades who were literate.

After the poor treatment of the comrades by Jafar Baghirov, 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 comrades, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (Kolkhozes) (lands that people rented from the government and later gave back 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 comrades, and he immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades. Eventually, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski, so he went to the city of Vriviski 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 the implementation of article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his comrades 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 returned to Kurdistan with his comrades by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. He passed away in 1985 in Sidakan.

Sources:

  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Committee.

  2. Hamid Gardi, Summary of History, First Edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - Ministry of Education Press - 2004).
  3. From the memoir of the Martyr Commander Haso Mirxan Zhazhoki, 62 Days with Barzani, The Journey of the Barzanis to the Soviet Union, First Edition (Erbil - Enlightenment Press - 1997).
  4. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931 - 1958, (Duhok - Khabat Press - 1998).
  5. Text of the General Amnesty Committee decision to restore the reputation of the martyrs of the Barzan revolution, Razgari Magazine, Issue 3, 2, Al-Rabita Press, Baghdad, April 1, 1959.
  6. Encyclopedia Committee Archive, Ismail Abdullah Hamira Muhammad form, dated November 1, 2018 - Pirmam.