Biography

Abdullah Sulêman Abdulrahman was born in 1920 in the village of Barzan in the Barzan district of the Margasor district of Erbil province, and emigrated to the Republic of Turkey with his family on June 21, 1932. After going to the Soviet Union, he married a woman named Yushka there and had two sons and a daughter named Nacih, Naci and Amina. Abdullah Sulêman studied in the Soviet Union and received his degree in agriculture. After returning to Kurdistan, he worked at the Bley Agricultural Office in 1959. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic and Russian. He passed away in 1979 in the city of Diwaniye in southern Iraq and was buried there.

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Abdullah Suleiman Abdulrahman joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943 and participated in the battles. On August 19, 1945, all of his movable and immovable property was confiscated by the decision of the Iraqi Military Court.

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he crossed into Eastern Kurdistan with Mustafa Barzani and his friends. After the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, he defended the republic within Barzan's forces.

After the collapse of the Kurdistan Republic in Mahabad and Barzani's return from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Nakhede and the Battle of Shino in Eastern Kurdistan. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Sherwan and Mazuri areas through Khwakurki 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.

In 1961, the Peshmerga September Revolution and participated in wars. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, was expelled to southern Iraq by the Iraqi government.

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