Biography

He was born in 1920 in the village of Teli, Barzan district, Mergasur district, Erbil province. He married Reza Aslan in the Soviet Union. They had two sons and a daughter, Khalil Sulaiman (1950), Ramazan Suleiman and Khadija Suleiman. Sulaiman Abdullah was fluent in both Kurdish and Russian. On July 31, 1983, he was killed in the Anfal operation against the Barzanis by the Iraqi government in Qushtapa community with his two sons, Ramazan Sulaiman and Mohiuddin Sulaiman They have gone missing.

The struggle

Sulaiman Abdullah joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943 and participated in the fighting. On August 19, 1945, the Iraqi Military Customary Court ordered the confiscation of all his property. On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he moved to East Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzani Forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad Saqiz. 

After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic on March 19, 1947, he participated in the battle of Naghdeh and Shino in East Kurdistan. He was one of the Peshmergas who returned to Sherwan and Mazuri on April 19, 1947 via Khawkurk and Dashti Barazgar.

After their return, Genl Mustafa Barzani On May 15, 1947, he held a meeting with his comrades in Argosh village and instructed them to stay or go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union He participated in the Battle of Mako Bridge and after much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in Nakhchevan, Azerbaijan, for forty days in an open community surrounded by barbed wire by a group of soldiers They were guarded and treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing and transportation. They were later divided into Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh and Kalbajar regions of Azerbaijan by the decision of the Soviet government. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan They have received military training. At the same time, they were taught Kurdish for four hours a day by some of their educated comrades.

After Jafar Bakirov's mistreatment of Barzani's comrades, it was decided to move his military camp from Azerbaijan to Chirchuk community near Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training. 

In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the farms of the kolkhozes (land that people rented from the government and then paid back to the government). 

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani talked about the suffering of his comrades and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades In November 1951, he moved to Vrevisky, Soviet Union.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, he and his comrades were granted a general amnesty under Articles 3 and 7, paragraphs (a) of Article 10 and Article 11. 

In 1958, the Iraqi Republic was established under the leadership of Abdulkarim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his comrades on the ship Georgia via the port of Basra in the south of the Iraqi Republic.  

1961 Participation The September RevolutionHe participated in the battles of Pirs and Sar Barzani. After the collapse The September Revolution In 1975, he was transferred to southern Iraq by the Iraqi government and settled in the city of Hala. He was later transferred to Qushtapa community Qushtapa community has been disappeared.

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