Ali Suleiman Abdulla Suleiman was born in 1943 in the village of Hostan in the Barzan region of the Margesor district of Erbil province. In 1961, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the September Revolution. He served as a guard in General Mustafa Barzani's special forces. In the same year, he went to the Behdinan region with General Mustafa Barzani and participated in the Battle of the Zawita Valley. In 1962, he went to the Birifkan, Etrush, Dola Nale regions and participated in the Battle of Serê Akre with Mullah Shini, Halî Dolemari and Omar Agha Dolemari. In the same year, he went to the Soran region with General Mustafa Barzani and participated in the battle to arm the Qishle of Rayat. In 1963, when the Iraqi regime attacked the Barzan region, he returned to the Barzan region with General Mustafa Barzani and participated in the battles of Serê Akre and Mount Piris, where he was wounded. In the second month of November of the same year, he returned to the Soran area.
In 1964, he was assigned as a bodyguard to General Mustafa Barzani in Dola Shahidan, Lewje, Chom Sark, behind Dilman. In 1965, he went to Haji Omaran and in the fall of the same year, he was in the village of Saji with General Mustafa Barzani. In the spring of 1966, he returned to Dilman due to the bombing of the Iraqi regime's warplanes. He continued to serve as a bodyguard to General Mustafa Barzani in the village of Dilman until April 1974. In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he emigrated to Iran and settled in the city of Nakheda in Eastern Kurdistan. Then he went to the city of Karaj and became a bodyguard to General Mustafa Barzani's house. After the death of General Mustafa Barzani, he went to Sullivana and there became a bodyguard to President Masoud Barzani, the Chairman of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On August 30, 1986, he went with President Masoud Barzani to the Narwe region of Duhok province. After 11 months, he returned to the Political School Headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Rajan in Eastern Kurdistan. In 1988, he participated in the Xwakurkê epic.
On March 7, 1991, before the start of the uprising and the uprising of the Southern Kurdistan Republic, he went to Qasmaresh with President Masoud Barzani. He then accompanied him at all stages of the uprising. In 2013, he was appointed to the military rank of Commander (Fariq).
On August 16, 1996, on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was awarded the Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani for his services to Kurds and Kurdistan.
Source:
- Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board Archives.
