Biography

Ahmed Mullah Yahya, known as Mullah Ahmed, was born in 1922 in the village of Kekla, affiliated with the Piran sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He has passed away.

Struggle Record

General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh, where he gave them the choice to either stay or head towards the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and head towards the Soviet Union. On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayolakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and, under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours daily, they were taught lessons in the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate..

After the poor treatment of his companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training. 

 In March 1949, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train to the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz farms (lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back)..

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's final decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevitsk. Therefore, Ahmed Mullah Yahya went to the city of Vrevitsk in the Soviet Union in November 1951..

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. Ahmed Mullah Yahya returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions on the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

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