Officer and politician, Izzat Abdulaziz Abdulatif Mahmud Katani, in 1939 was a member of the Darkar Society and a member of the Hiwa Party. In 1944, he was appointed by the Iraq government as a liaison officer with the Second Barzan Revolution in the Blee area. He was a participant in the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945). In 1945, he was among the founding members of the Freedom Committee. In the same year, he was the head of the defense front of the Second Barzan Revolution on the western front (Amadiya). In 1946, he was a participant in the Republic of Kurdistan in the city of Mahabad with the rank of Colonel (Staff Colonel). In the same year, he was a member of the founding committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party ( Kurdistan Democratic Party).

Biography

Izzat Abdulaziz was born in 1912 in the city of Amadiya, which was part of the Mosul province at the time and is now in Duhok. He completed his primary and secondary education in the city of Amadiya. In 1935, he entered the Baghdad Military College and graduated with the rank of Lieutenant. In 1943, he graduated from the Staff College in the artillery department with the rank of Major (Staff Major). He served in the artillery department of the military bases in Baghdad and Mosul. In 1939, he was in the Darkar Society, and after its establishment, he joined the ranks of the Hiwa Party and was one of its active members in Duhok and Mosul.

Struggle Record

In 1944, he was appointed by the monarchical government of Iraq as a liaison officer in the Blee area during negotiations with the Second Barzan Revolution. In the same year, he joined the ranks of the revolutionaries of the Second Barzan Revolution. In 1945, he was among the founding members of the Freedom Committee led by Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979). At the beginning of March 1945, in a meeting of the Freedom Committee, Izzat Abdulaziz was appointed as the commander of the western defense front and Amadiya. In April 1945, he was a member of the negotiation committee with the monarchical government of Iraq and British officials in Iraq. On April 30, 1945, the Freedom Committee, at the request of the monarchical government of Iraq to avoid clashes and war, decided to return to the Iraqi army. On May 7 of the same year, after returning to the monarchical army of Iraq, he was brought before a Military Court due to his participation in the revolution, but he managed to escape and returned to Barzan once again. On August 19, 1945, the Military Court, due to his participation in the Second Barzan Revolution, issued a verdict in absentia for the confiscation of all his movable and immovable property and his execution.

On October 11, 1945, after the end of the Second Barzan Revolution, he became a refugee in Eastern Kurdistan. By the decision of the leadership and after the establishment of the Democratic Republic in Eastern Kurdistan in the city of Mahabad, his rank was promoted to Colonel (Staff Colonel). He was among the participants in the war of defense of the Republic of Kurdistan until his return to Iraq on April 15, 1947. After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan, he surrendered himself to the Iraqi government at the Gadar border. Initially, he was taken to the city of Erbil with 3 of his other comrades, and later he was transferred to the central prison in Baghdad. In a sham trial, they were sentenced to the same previous punishment. Although many Kurdish figures in Kurdistan went to Baghdad to change and lighten this verdict, it was of no use, and one day after the escape of Mustafa Barzani and his arrival on the soil of the Soviet Union, in the middle of the Baghdad prison and in front of the eyes of Kurdish prisoners, he went to the gallows while chanting slogans and Kurdish songs, and on June 19, 1947, he was executed. His body was taken to his birthplace and buried in Kanya Sanje near Amadiya. Faiq Bekas (1905-1948), a Kurdish poet, composed the poem "Kurdish Nation" in memory of the four Kurdish officers. The great Kurdish poet Taufiq (1867-1950) composed the poem "The New Tragedy". The news of his execution was broadcast on Radio Baghdad. That day was named the Day of Martyrs.

Source:

1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.