Biography

Abdullah Ziyab Ali was born in 1929 in the village of Zewa in the Barzan district of the Margasor district of Erbil province. He emigrated to the Republic of Turkey with his family on June 21, 1932. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a Bachelor's degree. After returning from the Soviet Union, he was established as a civil servant in Kirkuk in 1959. He passed away on December 2, 2006 and was buried in the cemetery of the village of Barzan.

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Abdullah Ziyab Ali crossed into Eastern Kurdistan on October 11, 1945, after the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, and on March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzan force of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic army in Mahabad. He participated in the Battle of Mulqaren on May 3, 1946. After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic, he participated in the Battle of Hevris and Halaj on March 25, 1947.

He was one of the Peshmerga who returned to the Sherwan and Mizuri regions through Xwakurk and the Berazgir Plain in Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his friends in the village of Ergosh on May 15, 1947, and they discussed whether to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he went to the Soviet Union with General Mustafa Barzani and participated in the Battle of Qutur Valley and the Battle of Mako Bridge. After many hardships and difficulties, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union into the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, they and all their friends were placed in a closed camp surrounded by barbed wire in the city of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan Republic, for forty days, guarded by a group of soldiers and treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing and transportation. Then, by decision of the Soviet state, they were divided into the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulax and Kalbajar in Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Azerbaijan Republic, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and uniforms and underwent 8 hours of military training a day under the supervision of officers of the Azerbaijan Republic. At the same time, they received four hours of Kurdish language lessons a day from some of their educated friends.

After the disastrous leadership of Jafar Bakirov and his comrades, a decision was made on August 29, 1948, to transfer the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Chirchuk community near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, he and his friends were sent by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farms (land that people had taken from the state and then paid a share to the government).

After much effort and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani spoke about the suffering of his friends, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's friends. In the end, the committee decided to gather them all in the city of Vribisky, so the delegation went to the city of Vribisky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, a general amnesty was granted to him and his associates on February 25, 1959, in accordance with Articles 3 and 7 and paragraph (a) of Article 10 and Article 11 of the 1959 Amendment Law.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abdulkarim Qasim, and on April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his friends on the Georgian ship via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

Participated in 1961 September Revolution He participated in the battles of Zawita, the Nehl Valley, Duhok, Amed, Zakho, Acre, Miriba and Sheikhan. September Revolution He was the deputy commander of the first force.

In 1962, he participated in the battles of Balekayeti, Khoshnaweti and the surrounding areas of Koyê, Piris, Mila Sarîjê, Barzan, Pira Rezan and Serê Bêdarîn. In 1964, by order of Mullah Mustafa Barzani, he was appointed as the governor of Ranye and was wounded in that area and sent to Iran for treatment.

Abdullah Ziyab Ali became a border guard on March 11, 1970. In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, was transferred to southern Iraq by the Iraqi government.

Participated in 1982 May Revolution He became a commander and commander, participated in the battles of Keleshin and Haji Omaran, went to the Islamic Republic of Iran as a refugee in 1983, participated in the Xwakurkê Dastan in 1988, and upon the order of President Barzani, became responsible for transporting weapons, ammunition, and food. In 1991, he returned to Kurdistan and settled in the village of Derbutkê in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. By order of President Barzani, he was appointed as the head of the Nizari committee in the Barzan region, and later settled in Pirmam.

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