Biography

He was born in Year 1920 in the village of Tel, affiliated with the Barzan sub-district in the Mergasor district in Erbil Governorate. He married in the Soviet Union to (Tamara Abbas) and had a daughter with her (Zainab-1957). Tamara Abbas was detained with two of her children on 12 June 1963 until 20 December 1963 in Erbil, on the charge of accompanying her husband with Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union and being one of the Peshmerga members, where she was imprisoned and then lived in the Sidawa neighborhood and was placed under house arrest. She returned in Year 1965 to the Soviet Union. He died in Year 1988 in the Qushtapa complex in Erbil Governorate.

Struggle Pages

He accompanied General Mustafa Barzani on 23 May 1947 to the Soviet Union. He participated in the battles of Qotur and Maku Bridge, and after great hardship and severe exhaustion, he crossed the Aras River heading to the Soviet Union on 18 June 1947, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union. 

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on 19 June 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open complex surrounded by barbed wire guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. By a decision of the Soviet government, they were later distributed to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayolakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On 10 December 1947, they were moved to a camp on the Caspian Sea in the capital of the Azerbaijani Republic, Baku, and on the 23rd of the same month, they received military uniforms. They were receiving military training for eight hours daily under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan, and at the same time, they were receiving lessons in learning the Kurdish language for four hours daily by some of their educated comrades.

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

In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in the form of groups by train to the cooperative villages in the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz farms (the land that people used to rent from the government and then pay a share to the government from it).

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 decision was finally that they should be gathered in the city of Frivsky, so he headed in November 1951 to the Soviet city of Frivsky.

After the 14 July 1958 revolution in Iraq, and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on 25 February 1959, he and his comrades were included in the general amnesty according to Articles (3) and (7) and paragraph (A) of Article (10) and the implementation of Article (11) under the amended Law No. (19) of 1959.

In Year 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim. He returned with his comrades on 16 April 1959 to Kurdistan on the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. He participated in the Aylul Revolution in Year 1963. 

Sources:

- Hamid Gardi, Summary of History, First Edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - Ministry of Education Press - 2004 AD).

- Rekari Mizuri, Russian Women and Displacement, Anfal, and Genocide, First Edition, (Erbil - Manara Press - 2010 AD).

- Abdulrahman Mullah Habib Abu Bakr, Barzan Tribe between 1931-1991, First Edition, (Erbil - Ministry of Culture Press - 2001 AD).

- Karwan Mohammed Majid, The Barzanis from Mahabad to the Soviets, First Edition, (Sulaymaniyah - Paywand Press - 2011 AD).

- Hataw Magazine, Issue 154, Sixth Year, Erbil, Kurdistan Press, Friday, 15 April 1959.

- In the memoir of the martyr commander Hasso Mirxan Zhazhoki, 62 Days with Barzani, The Going of the Barzanis to the Soviet Union, First Edition (Erbil - Enlightenment Press - 1997 AD).

- Laith Abdul-Muhsin Jawad Al-Zubaidi, The 14 July 1958 Revolution in Iraq, (Baghdad - Dar Al-Rashid for Publishing - 1979 AD).

- Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931-1958, (Duhok - Khabat Press - 1998 AD).

- Najaf Quli Pessian, From Bloody Mahabad to the Banks of the Aras, trans. Shawkat Sheikh Yazdin, First Edition, (Pirmam - Golden Jubilee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - 1996 AD).

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

- Ismail Gondezhori, The Russian Women Who Were Married to Peshmerga and Were Subjected to Arrests, Organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Khabat Newspaper, Issue 3461, Erbil, 3 May 2010 AD.