Martyr Osman Khurshid was born in 1934 in the village of Koreki Gchka, affiliated with the Kasnazan sub-district of the Banaslawa district in Erbil province. He was a villager and was engaged in farming. Osman Khurshid was married and had three sons and five daughters. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution , he became a refugee in the Country of Iran. Initially, he resided in the Marivan camp and later in the city of Salawabad. At the end of 1976, he returned to Kurdistan and resided in his own village.

In the Year 1962, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the force of Mahmud Kawani, which was affiliated with the Safin Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Later, he was transferred to the battalion of Dr. Khalid in the Koya plain. In the Year 1964, after a large part of his comrades in their battalion turned against the revolution and decided to oppose the Aylul Revolution , Osman Khurshid alone reached the Martyr Faris Bawa in the Erbil Plain Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in that force, he received the rank of head of branch and continued his armed struggle.

Osman Khurshid had an active participation in the epics and battles of the Erbil plain, the Bardabaz battle, the epics of Mount Safin, and the battles of the Koya plain. In 1967, in the battle of the village of Nazanin at the foot of Mount Safin, during a confrontation with the then Iraqi Army, he was shot in the thigh and was severely wounded.

Osman Khurshid in the Gulan Revolution continued his political struggle as an organizational cadre of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , and by the Second Branch of the Party, he was entrusted with the full responsibility of the party affairs of the villages of that area and was the supervisor of the organizational work and activities of all the secret cells.

On July 30, 1988, after he held a meeting in his house with the person responsible for the village cells, he was exposed by some collaborators (Jash), and a large force of soldiers and collaborators of the Ba'ath regime surrounded his house. Osman Khurshid and his comrades confronted them. After a long confrontation, Osman Khurshid was hit by a bullet and was martyred. In that same attack by the Iraqi Army on his house, his wife, named Maliha Ahmad Taha, and a cousin of his named Sabah were also martyred, and after the soldiers took their bodies, they burned the entire village.

Source:

1- Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.