Timz Silki was born in the Year 1924 in the village of Silki, which belongs to the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He was married before going to the Soviet Union to (Ruhan) and had a child with her. He also married for the second time in the Soviet Union to (Valentina Dajijka), but he did not take her with him upon his return from the Soviet Union. After his return, he married (Masrikhan Shit Muhammad) and had three sons and five daughters with her. He was appointed as an employee in Rawanduz in the Year 1960. He was fluent in the (Kurdish, Russian, Turkish, and Persian) languages. He passed away on August 5, 2014, and was buried in the village of Silki.
Struggle PagesTimz Silki joined the mandatory military service in the Kirkuk camp in the Year 1942. After the outbreak of the Second Revolution of Barzan, he joined the ranks of the revolution and participated on October 2, 1943, in the seizure of the Chander police station. On October 12, 1943, he participated in the seizure of the Khira Zuk police station. For this reason, on August 19, 1945, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated by order of the Iraqi Military Court. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the seizure of the Maidan Murik police station, and on September 14, he was wounded in the Battle of Mount Bers. His father, Arb Qatran, was martyred in the Year 1945 in the Battle of Biyaw Valley.
On October 11, 1945, and after the setback of the Second Revolution of Barzan, he crossed with Mustafa Barzani and his comrades to East Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad on March 31, 1946, he defended the Republic within the framework of the Barzan force, and he had a distinguished and active role.
After the collapse of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan on March 19, 1947, he participated in the Saqqez front battle. On April 19, 1947, he participated in the Qarawa battle in the Saqqez region of East Kurdistan and was wounded there, but he was determined to continue the struggle under the leadership of General Mustafa Barzani.
After the collapse of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan on March 3, 1947, he participated in the Nlus battle in East Kurdistan and in the battles of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh on March 19, 1947.
He was among his Peshmerga comrades when he returned on 19/4/1947 via (Khwakurk and the Barazkara plain), crossing the lands of North Kurdistan to the Shirwan and Mazuri regions.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Arkush on 15/5/1947 and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and head to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union. He participated in the battles of Qotur and the Maku Bridge, and after great hardship and severe exhaustion, he crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.
After their arrival in the Soviet Union on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open compound surrounded by barbed wire guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. By a decision of the Soviet government, they were later distributed to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Yevlakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a camp on the Caspian Sea in the capital of the Azerbaijani Republic, Baku. On the 23rd of the same month, they received military uniforms and were receiving military training for eight hours daily under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they were receiving lessons in teaching the Kurdish language for four hours daily by some of their educated comrades.
After the mistreatment of his comrades by Jafar Baghirov, Barzani decided to move his military group from Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Jarjuk compound near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where they continued their military training.
In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in groups by train to the collective villages in the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz farms (the land that people used to rent from the government and then pay a share to the government from it).
After great efforts and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani spoke about the suffering of his comrades, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades. The committee's decision was finally that they should be gathered in the city of Frivsky, so he headed in November 1951 to the Soviet city of Frivsky.
After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, he and his comrades were included in the general amnesty according to Articles (3) and (7) and Paragraph (A) of Article (10) and the implementation of Article (11) under Law No. (19) as amended for the Year 1959.
The Republic of Iraq was established in the Year 1958 under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim. Timz Silki returned with his comrades on April 16, 1959, to Kurdistan on the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
He participated in Aylul Revolution the glorious, after its outbreak in the Year 1961. He held the position of battalion commander in the Year 1963 in the Soran region, as well as battalion commander in the Year 1967 in the Badinan region. He participated in the battles of (Dashtabil, Niliwan, Sharansh, Kani Masi, Geli Zinta, Lumana, Maidanka Rofia, Geli Duhok, Sari Amidi, Mount Matin, Mount Bradost, Hawdian, Tahira, Miraw, Kani Spi, Kobar). He held the position of battalion commander and was responsible for the Amidi locality of the Party.
He took refuge in Iran in the Year 1975 after the setback of the Aylul Revolution and resided in the Ziwah compound, then he was moved to the city of Fereydunshahr in Mazandaran province, and from there to the city of Jahrom, then to Kuhsang in Mashhad province, and he moved in the Year 1977 to the Saveh compound.
He participated in the Year 1979 in the Gulan Revolution, was a member of the Ninth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and a military commander in the Khabat force. After the reorganization of the Peshmerga Forces in the Year 1986, he was appointed commander of the elderly forces in the Party and also took responsibility for protecting the shrine of the Barzanis in the village of Helj.
He returned to South Kurdistan in the Year 1993 and resided in the Pirmam sub-district. In the Year 1996, he was retired. On August 16, 1996, and within the framework of the golden jubilee celebrations and in appreciation of his struggle and sacrifices in the Aylul Revolution the second, and in the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, and his participation in the Barzani march to the Soviet Union, and in the Aylul and Gulan revolutions, he was awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani. He passed away on August 5, 2014, and was buried in the village of Silki.
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