Biography

Born in 1915 in the village of Bestrê, in the Goretu district of the Marghera district of Erbil, he emigrated to the Republic of Turkey with his family on June 21, 1932. After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution and their departure to Eastern Kurdistan to defend the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, his two wives and children passed away. Şeref Leşkiri studied in the Soviet Union and received a diploma in agriculture. After returning from the Soviet Union, he was established in the Erbil Agricultural Office in 1959. He spoke both Kurdish and Russian. He died of a heart attack while on duty in 1967 and was buried in the village of Müseka.

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Sherif Laşkiri was a rebel in 1942 before the Second Barzan Revolution began, joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943, participated in the Battle of Dola Nar, took part in the capture of the Şanedar police base on October 2, 1943, took part in the capture of the Xerezok police base on October 12, and took part in the capture of the Sherwan police base on October 20. He also took part in the capture of the Mergesor police base on August 8, 1945, and took part in the Battle of Serê Acre on September 12, 1945, where he was seriously wounded. On August 19 of the same year, all of his movable and immovable property was confiscated by the Iraqi Military Court.

After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he crossed into Eastern Kurdistan on October 11, 1945. On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzani Forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army as a Peshmerga, along with his two brothers, Ahmed Laşkiri and Badro Laşkiri. He participated in the battles of Qelatan, Kalaş and Piranşar in Eastern Kurdistan. On April 29 of the same year, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqiz region.

After the collapse of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Nelos on March 3, 1947, the Battle of Gujar on March 13-14, and the Battle of Nexeda and Shino on March 19. Sharif Laşkiri also participated in the Battle of Qarne in the Khan region on March 24, 1947, and the Battle of Havrs and Halec on March 25.

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

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani On May 15, 1947, he held a meeting with his friends in the village of Ergoş and discussed whether to stay or go to the Soviet Union. All his comrades decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 22, 1947, he and General Mustafa Barzani He went to the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of the Qatur Valley and the Battle of Mako Bridge. After many hardships and difficulties, he crossed the Aras River on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union into the Soviet Union on June 18, 1947.

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, on February 25, 1959, a general amnesty was granted to him and his companions in accordance with Articles 3 and 7 and paragraph (a) of Article 10 and Article 11 of Amendment Act No. 19 of 1959.

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 Lolan, Meydanok, Zêlkoka, Mirêba, Mount Metîn, Etroş, Girkal, Balekiyan, Badilya and the Ömer Axa People, and became a captain in 1962.

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