Biography

Surkan Mullah Bas was born in 1920 in Mergasuri district of Erbil province. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a degree in agricultural mechanics. He married Maria in the Soviet Union They had a son and a daughter named Rasul and Rasmiya. After returning from the Soviet Union, Surkan was employed in a sugar factory in Mosul in 1959. In 1975, after Nskoy The September Revolution He returned to his hometown and then moved to Erbil, where he continued his work as a well driller. He moved to Mawilian village. In 1980, he was terminated by the Iraqi government because he did not become a Ba'athist He died in 1989 in Mawilian village and was buried there.

The struggle

He joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943. On August 8, 1945, he participated in the capture of Mergasuri police station captured in the untransmitted. 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. On April 29 of the same year, he participated in the Battle of Qaraway in Saqiz region.

 After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic on March 19, 1947, he participated in the battles of Naghdeh and Shino.

After their return, Genl Mustafa Barzani On May 15, 1947, he held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Argosh and instructed them to stay or go to the Soviet Union Mustafa Barzani He crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, which is located 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 been militarized. 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.  

Surkan Mullah Bas participated in the September Revolution in 1961 and was a soldier. He participated in the battles of Halbat, Bastia Zhazhoki, Zozk and Goratoo. He was wounded twice during his Peshmerga activities. 

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