Biography

Born in 1920 in the village of Lerebir, affiliated with the Goretu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province, he studied in the Soviet Union. On February 15, 1954, he was admitted to Tashkent University and on March 29, 1959, he was able to obtain a higher diploma degree. After returning from the Soviet Union, in 1959 he was a teacher at Khabat School in Erbil. On August 21, 1982, he was appointed as an employee in the Erbil Agriculture Department. He was proficient in Kurdish, Persian, Turkish, and Russian languages. He passed away in 2009.

Struggle Record

In 1945, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles. On August 19 of the same year, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized.

On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After much hardship and toil, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, towards 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 as 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 lessons in learning the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.

After Jafar Baghirov's poor treatment of the companions, Barzani decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound 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 across 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, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. Eventually, 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, and 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 were covered by the general amnesty.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Gruzia. 

 In the year 1962, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and participated in the battles. He was wounded in the Battle of Pires Mountain. In 1983, he went to the Islamic Republic of Iran as a refugee, and in 1998 he returned to Kurdistan.

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