Martyr Letîf Seîd Qurtas was born in 1915 in the village of Bolê, which belongs to the Sidekan sub-district of Erbil province; he was a village farmer and was married.
In 1961, he joined the September Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the Hacî Bêroxî Battalion of the Balek Force, and participated in the battles of Hindirîn, Zozk, and Gorez. In 1966, in Geliye Omer Axa, he and a group of his friends were martyred due to the shelling by the Iraqi regime.
Source:• Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.