Born in 1920 in the village of Argush, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married; his wife's name was Amina Sharif Omar, and they had a son and a daughter named Amina, born in 1939, and Farman, born in 1941. In the Soviet Union, he married twice; the first time he lived with Shams and they had two daughters, and the second time he lived with Jamila and they had a daughter and a son named Najia and Ibrahim. He knew Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish, and Russian. In 1991, during the exodus to the Islamic Republic of Iran, he passed away in the village of Rezge in Eastern Kurdistan and was buried in the Malabask cemetery.
Struggle RecordIn 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles. For this reason, on August 19, 1945, by order of the military martial court, all his movable and immovable property was seized.
On October 11, 1945, after the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, along with Mustafa Barzani and his companions, he crossed into Eastern Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, he defended the Republic within the framework of the Barzan force.
After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and Barzani's return from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naghadeh and the Battle of Oshnavieh in Eastern Kurdistan. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region on April 19, 1947, through the (Khwakurk and Dashti Barazgir) route via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Argush on May 15, 1947, and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all the companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union. He was a squad leader 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 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 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 the 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 the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate.
After the poor treatment of the companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk community 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 villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz farms (lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back).
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 decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. Finally, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he 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, according to 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 received a 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 companions by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In 1964, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a Head of Branch. As a commander, he participated in the Battle of Gorazi and supervised the blowing up of the Khalani bridge. He was wounded in battles four times. After the defeat of the Aylul Revolution he was detained by the Iraqi government in Abu Ghraib prison for three months.
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