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Aziz Salih Aziz

Aziz Salih Aziz (1925-1975), Peshmerga and comrade of Barzani to the Soviet Union, participated in the September Revolution (1961-1975).


Biography

Aziz Salih Aziz was born in 1925 in Lere village of Sherwan Mazen district of Mergasur district of Erbil province. He moved to Iran as a refugee in 1983 and returned to Kurdistan in 1991.  He died in 1997 in Lere village.


The struggle

Aziz Salih Aziz on May 23, 1947, accompanied by General 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 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 the 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. 

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.

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 southern Iraq.  

1973 Participation The September RevolutionHe participated in the battles. 


Sources:

1. Abdulrahman Mullah Habib Abubakr, Barzan Tribe Between 1931 - 1991, 1st Edition, (Erbil - Ministry of Culture Printing House - 2001).

2. Abdullah Ghafoor, Dictionary of Geography of Erbil, (Erbil - Kurdish Academy Publications - Haji Hashim Printing House - 2015).

3. Karwan Mohammed Majid, Barzanis from Mahabad to the Soviet Union, first edition, (Sulaimani - Paywand Printing House - 2011).

4. Massoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931-1958, (Duhok, Khabat Printing House, 1998).

5. Najaf Quli Psian, from bloody Mahabad to the banks of Aras, and. Shawkat Sheikh Yazdin, 1st edition, (Pirmam - Golden Jubilee of Kurdistan Democratic Party - 1996).

6. Archive of the Encyclopedia of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.


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