Biography

Abdullah Sulaiman Abdulrahman was born in 1920 in Barzani village, Barzan district, Mergasur district, Erbil province. On June 21, 1932, he emigrated to Turkey with his family. After moving to the Soviet Union, he married a woman named Yushka and had two sons and a daughter named Najih, Naji and Amina. Abdullah Sulaiman studied in the Soviet Union and received a degree in agriculture. After returning to Kurdistan, he was employed in the agricultural office of Ble in 1959. He is fluent in Kurdish, Arabic and Russian He died in 1979 in Diwaniya, southern Iraq, where he was buried.

The struggle

Abdullah Sulaiman Abdulrahman 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 captured 

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he was arrested Mustafa Barzani and his comrades crossed to East Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, he defended the republic within the Barzan forces. 

After the collapse of the Kurdistan Republic in Mahabad and Barzani's return from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naghde and the Battle of Shino in East Kurdistan.

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 his comrades, it was decided to move the military camp from Azerbaijan to the Chirchuk community near Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, on August 29, 1948, 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 took from the government and then gave 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 November 1951 Moves 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 Republican Government was established under the leadership of Abdul Karim 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. 

In 1961 he became a Peshmerga The September Revolution He was and participated in the wars. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he was deported to southern Iraq by the Iraqi government.

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