Officer and Politician, Mirhac Ahmed Tahir has been known by the name (Mirhac Akreyi). In the year 1939 he was a member of the Darker Association and on the date of 7 May 1939 he established a relationship with the ranks of the Kurdish Hiwa Party. In the year 1944 he was one of the participants in the second Barzani revolution (1943 - 1945). In the year 1846 he was a member of the founding committee and the central executive committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party (Congress of Foundation). In the year 1948 he was appointed as a member of the leadership of South - East Kurdistan (Baku Conference). In the year 1953 and at the third congress he was elected as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq.

Biography

Mirhac Ahmed Tahir was born in the year 1911 in the city of Akre, which is part of the Mosul Governorate. In the year 1923 he completed primary school. In the year 1923 he went to the city of Baghdad for middle school studies. In the year 1929 he completed high school in the city of Baghdad. In the year 1929 he wanted to go to the Military College of Baghdad, but he was not accepted because he was Kurdish. In the year 1931 he graduated from the Baghdad Teachers' Institute. In the year 1931 he was appointed as a primary school teacher in the city of Baghdad. In the year 1935 he was accepted as a student at the Military College of Baghdad. On 15 September 1936 he graduated from the fifteenth class of the Military College of Baghdad with the rank of Second Lieutenant. On 4 July 1937 he graduated with the rank of second lieutenant of artillery and a military bachelor's degree from the Military College. In the year 1939 he became a First Lieutenant. In the year 1943 his rank in the ranks of the Iraqi army was promoted and he became a Captain (Rais). Within the framework of military duty, he took artillery and aviation courses. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish, English, Russian, and Persian languages.

Work History

In the year 1939 he was a member of the Darker Association and on 7 May 1939 he established a relationship with the ranks of the Kurdish Hiwa Party. On 16 August 1946 with the companionship of Mustafa Mustafa Mustafa known as Mustafa Khoshnaw (1912 - 1947) he was present at the founding meeting of the Kurdish Life Association (J.K) in the Sise garden of the city of Mahabad in East Kurdistan. In the month of August of the year 1943 with the companionship of Mustafa Mustafa Mustafa (1912 - 1947) known as Mustafa Khoshnaw he was a member of the Kurdish Hiwa Party delegation and visited East Kurdistan for a meeting with Soviet Union officials and Kurdish personalities. In the month of June 1944 he visited the city of Urmia with the intention of establishing a relationship with Soviet Union authorities and Kurdish revolutionaries in East Kurdistan. In the month of December 1944 with the companionship of Mustafa Khoshnaw in the city of Urmia he held a meeting with Captain Vilchivsky, Stalin's Special Representative for Iranian and Kurdish Affairs, which was for the purpose of coordination and support for the Kurdish cause, and in the city of Tabriz he held a meeting with General Lubov, Chief of the Soviet War Staff, and General Etekshyof for the same purpose. On 25 January 1944 he was the liaison officer between the Iraqi authorities and the revolutionaries of the second Barzani revolution (1943 - 1945) on the Akre front in the Mosul Governorate and tried to get all Kurdish leaders to support Mustafa Barzani in his demand for Kurdish rights.

 

In the year 1944 with the companionship of Mustafa Khoshnaw and Aziz Shamzini, representing the Kurdish Hiwa Party, they held a meeting with Mustafa Barzani regarding the coordination and cooperation of those two parties. In the year 1944 he was imprisoned in the Amara prison by the Iraqi army on charges of cooperating with the second Barzani revolution. On 28 April 1945 he was released from the city of Baghdad through the efforts of Mohammed Amin Agha al-Akreyi and on 29 April 1945 he fled from the city of Mosul towards the town of Akre and later crossed into the Barzan region, the center of the second Barzani revolution. On 1 May 1945 he reached the liberated areas of the second Barzani revolution and joined the ranks of the second Barzani revolution. In the year 1945 he was one of the founders of the Azadi committee during the era of the second Barzani revolution. On 19 August 1945 due to his participation in the second Barzani revolution (1943 - 1945), an order for the seizure of all his movable and immovable assets was issued by the Iraqi Orfi Court. On 11 October 1945 after the defeat of the second Barzani revolution, he migrated to East Kurdistan. On 21 March 1946 in the city of Mahabad with General Mustafa Barzani and together with Pesheva Qazi Muhammad, President of the Republic of Kurdistan, he held meetings regarding the formation of the Barzani force. In the year 1946 he was the commander of the third battalion of the Barzani force on the Saqqez front on the border of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan (East Kurdistan). In the year 1946 with President Mustafa Barzani he held a meeting in the city of Mahabad with the American diplomat Archie Roosevelt.

 

In the year 1946 he arranged a special meeting for Lawyer Rashid Ismail Aziz (1960 - 2001) known as Rashid Bacelan with Qazi Muhammad, President of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, and he himself was present at this meeting. In the year 1946 he was on the founding committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party. In the year 1946 he participated in the Mamsha battle against the Iranian army. In the year 1946 in the city of Baghdad, he was elected by the delegates of the first congress (Founding Congress) as a member of the central executive committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party. In the year 1946 he received the rank of Colonel and commander of the third battalion of the Barzani force in the Army of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan. In the year 1946 he was responsible for receiving equipment, weapons, and ammunition from the National Republic of Azerbaijan for the Barzani force in Teqi Awa on the border between the two republics. At the end of the year 1946 during the era of the defeat of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, by the order of General Mustafa Barzani He captured Sayinqela with the aim of facilitating the withdrawal of the Barzani force and the support force of the National Republic of Azerbaijan on the Saqqez front towards the city of Mahabad. On 21 of December 1946, he was a member of the negotiating delegation of South Kurdistan led by General Mustafa Barzani (1903 - 1979) for the city of Tehran, the capital of Iran, with Iranian, American, and British authorities with the aim of the return of those South Kurds to their lands. In the year 1946, after the defeat of the Republic of Kurdistan, he visited Peshwa Qazi Muhammad and tried to convince him not to surrender.

 

In the year 1946, after the defeat of the Republic of Kurdistan, in the town of Naghadeh, he was a member of the Kurdish delegation for negotiations with Colonel Ghafari, the representative of the Iranian army. On 8 of April 1947, he reached Gader with the Peshmerga forces and decided to defend with General Mustafa Barzani and not surrender to the Iraqi authorities. On 28 of May 1947, under the supervision of President Mustafa Barzani they participated in the expanded Jirmi meeting in the village of Jirmi in East Kurdistan with the aim of reorganizing the Peshmerga forces and planning for the departure towards the Soviet Union. In the year 1948, he was appointed as a member of the leadership of South-East Kurdistan (Baku Conference). In the year 1953, without his own presence, he was elected by the representatives of the third congress as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq. In the fifties of the last century, he studied for up to three years at the political institute of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan and obtained a bachelor's degree in political science. On 17 of September 1958, he arrived at Prague Airport by plane. On 19 of September 1958, accompanied by President Mustafa Barzani he reached Cairo Airport and was welcomed at the Qubba Palace by Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 - 1970). At the end of September 1958, with President Mustafa Barzani he laid a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldiers of Egypt in the city of Cairo.

 

In the year 1958, with General Mustafa Barzani when he returned to Baghdad, the death sentence against him was lifted by the Sovereignty Council of Iraq. On 7 of October 1958, the Arabic-language newspaper (Al-Hurriya) in the city of Baghdad published the news of his return from the Soviet Union. Also in the year 1958, he strengthened his relationship with most of the Kurdish officers in the Iraqi army and introduced them to President Mustafa Barzani In the year 1959, he was tasked by President Mustafa Barzani along with Asad Khoshewi, to speak with the spouses of Barzani's companions with the aim of discussing life in South Kurdistan until they returned voluntarily. On the day of 18 of April 1958, he arrived in the city of Erbil by two trains with Barzani's companions and was welcomed by Sheikh Ahmed Barzani (1897 - 1969) and the masses of the city, and on this occasion, he read a speech to the masses. On 23 of March 1959, by a republican decree and with the signature of the Sovereignty Council of Iraq, he was accepted into the ranks of the Iraqi army with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

 

On the Saturday of 18 of April 1959 at the port of Basra in South Iraq, he was there to welcome the trains carrying the companions of Mustafa Barzani who had returned from the Soviet Union and delivered a speech to them. On 8 of February 1963, after the coup of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party against the ruler Lieutenant General Abdul Karim Qasim (1914 - 1963), he was retired from the Iraqi army. In the year 1977, he was tasked by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914 - 1982) to accept a ministerial post, but he did not agree to this. In the year 1979, he secretly offered condolences from the city of Baghdad and at his home to President Mustafa Barzani (1903 - 1979). On 13 of November 1988, he passed away in the city of Baghdad and was buried in the Pirban cemetery in the town of Akre, which is part of the Duhok governorate.

References:

1 - Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.