Fatah Guli was born in 1943 in the Batufa sub-district of the Zakho district in Duhok Governorate, and graduated from middle school in Zakho in Year 1961. After the setback of Aylul Revolution, he took refuge in Iran in 1975 and settled in Naqadeh, then he was transferred to Saraw Nilofar in Kermanshah and from there to Kerman, and in Year 1979 he returned to Ziveh and worked as a Peshmerga there, until the convening of the Ninth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He died from an illness on June 24, 2007, and was buried in his hometown of Batufa.
In 1959, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union. In Year 1961, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution within the Ali Halo Battalion. In Year 1964, he was appointed as a battalion cadre, and in 1968 he was transferred to the Halgord Force, which was a strike force led by Suleiman Haji Badri in the Qasri and Haji Omaran areas, and he was tasked with managing the force, remaining there until 1975.
In Year 1980, he was appointed head of the Zakho local committee in the First Branch, and in 1981 he was transferred to the Duhok local committee. In Year 1985, he was appointed responsible for the Amedi local committee, and in 1986 he was appointed responsible for the Duhok local committee. In Year 1987, he became responsible for the Sheikhan local committee, and in 1988, after the ominous Anfal campaign and chemical attacks on the Badinan region, he went with a group of his other comrades to the North Doski region and settled there.
In 1991, he returned to South Kurdistan after the Kurdistan Uprising and settled in Duhok. In 1992, he was appointed head of the Kurdistan Front in the Duhok region and head of the Duhok local committee. At the end of the same year, he became commander of the First Army - Zakho, and in 1995 he was appointed commander of the Zeravani forces in Duhok. In 1999, he was one of the members of the delegation of Kurdistan Democratic Party which was invited by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to participate in performing the Hajj pilgrimage. In 2001, after the establishment of the Eighth Branch in Zakho, Fatah Guli was appointed deputy head of the branch.
During his life as a Peshmerga, he participated in several battles, including the Battle of Hasan Birka in Year 1980, the Battle of Wadi Duhok in 1982, the Battle of Wadi Zawita in 1982, the Battle of Dergezing in 1984, the Battle of Sutki in Year 1987, and the Khwakurk epic (Dastan) in 1988.
On August 16, 1996, on the Golden Jubilee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, President Masoud Barzani awarded him the Barzani Medal in appreciation of his services for the Kurds, Kurdistan, and the Barzani path.
Source:1- Archive of the Encyclopedia Authority of the Kurdistan Democratic Party