Biography

Martyr Salih Ali Suleiman Ahmed, was born in 1941 in the village of Chiway-i Saru, located in the Betwata region. He was a resident of the city of Erbil. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution , he became a refugee in the country of Iran and settled in the city of Naqadeh. Due to the difficult situation of being a refugee, his health deteriorated, and the scars of his 1969 wound caused him severe pain. Therefore, in 1977, after two years of being a refugee, he returned to southern Kurdistan and settled in the village of Chiway-i Saru. He was married; his wife's name was Ismet Abdulrahman, and he had 7 children named Sabah, Muhammad, Ibrahim, Ismail, Narmin, Nazanin, and Nawroza.

Struggle Record

Martyr Salih Ali Suleiman Ahmed, in 1967 he joined the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the Safin Force. In 1969, in the Zinetir mountain, he was severely wounded in a confrontation with the Iraqi army. He received treatment for 6 months, and due to the effect of that wound on his body, he became disabled, but he continued his Peshmerga struggle and continued his Peshmerga service without interruption until the collapse of 1975 in the border area of the Safin Force in Shaqlawa.

At the beginning of the resumption of the Gulan Revolution of the progressive movement, due to poor health and disability, he could not participate effectively in partisan activities, but he performed organizational work and secret arrangements in the area of the Shaqlawa district committee. Also, his house became a place of rest for the Peshmerga forces of the Shaqlawa district committee.

In 1991, with the start of the great uprising of southern Kurdistan, he took up arms again and, side by side with the Peshmerga and in the Muhammad Chiwayi Battalion affiliated with the Shaqlawa district committee, participated in the popular uprising of the people of Kurdistan. He participated in the liberation of the Shaqlawa district, the Kori sub-district, and the city of Erbil.

On March 11, 1991, inside the city of Erbil and in front of the Northern Organization, after a fierce confrontation with the soldiers of the Ba'ath regime, an RPG shell hit among several Peshmerga, and Salih and seven comrades were martyred, who were Jafar Salam, Martyr Hassan, Martyr Mullah Taha, Martyr Muhammad, and Martyr Khawar.

Source:

Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.