Martyr Salih Haji Qadir Akoyi, known as (Salih Haji Malla and Salih Akoyi), was born in 1944 in the village of Akoyan, in the Akoyan Valley of the Rawanduz district, Erbil Governorate, to a farming family.
In 1963, he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga. He received the rank of squad leader in the 3rd Battalion of the Balak Force and was later made Head of Branch. He participated in several battles, including the battles of Korak, Spilik, and Bekhal, and participated in the Peshmerga offensive on the Ba'ath regime's positions at the oil refineries in the city of Kirkuk. In 1966, in the battle of Handren, which was a strategically important battle for the Aylul Revolution, he played a prominent role. In this battle, after the capture of the Kapkamu peak on Handren Mountain by the Ba'ath regime's army, it was decided that sixty Peshmerga would sacrifice themselves to recapture this peak; among them, Salih Akoyi became the leader of ten fedayeen Peshmerga, and they recorded an unparalleled epic.
On March 13, 1975, on Armusha Mountain in Rawanduz, at the Baskadrezh peak, he became the last martyr of the Aylul Revolution due to the final artillery shell of the Ba'ath regime. President Barzani, in the book 'The Kurdistan Liberation Movement', named him the last martyr of the Aylul Revolution. He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Akoyan, which belongs to the Rawanduz district.
Source:1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.