Martyr Latif Said Qurtas was born in 1915 in the village of Boley, belonging to the town of Sidekan in Erbil Governorate. He was a villager, worked as a farmer, and was married. 

In 1961, he joined the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the Haji Berokh Battalion, which belonged to the Balak Force, participating in the battles of Hendrin, Zozik, and Gwarezi. In 1966, he was martyred at the Umar Agha Gorge along with a group of his comrades due to the Iraqi regime's artillery bombardment.

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