Biography

Kako Hussein Khan Mir Abdullah, known as Kako Kaloki, was born in 1925 in the village of Kalok, Piran sub-district, affiliated with the Mergasor district of Erbil province. After returning from the Soviet Union, he settled in the village of Kalok in the Barzan region. After being employed in the Sulaymaniyah Agriculture Department, he settled in that city. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he became a refugee in Iran and settled in the city of Mashhad. In 1997, he returned to Kurdistan and settled in the Soran district. On May 30, 2005, he passed away due to illness in the Soran district, affiliated with Erbil province.

Struggle History

October 11, 1945, and after the collapse of the second Barzan revolution, along with Mustafa Barzani and his companions, they crossed into Eastern Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, within the framework of the Barzan force and with the son of Ahmed Yusuf Abdulrahman, he defended the Republic. He participated in several battles in the border areas of Saqqez, Margavar, and Targavar.

After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan and the return of Barzani from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the defense battles of Eastern Kurdistan until he did not surrender on the Iran-Iraq border on April 19, 1947, and was with General Mustafa Barzani . General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or head towards the Soviet Union. There, all the companions decided to continue and head towards the Soviet Union. On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur (Kotol) and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, 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, along with all his companions, they 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 like 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, Ayulakh, 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 the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, some of their companions who were literate taught them lessons in the Kurdish language.

After the poor treatment of the companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp of Barzani's companions on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound 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 among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (the 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 Vrevsky. Therefore, Kako Kaloki went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

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

With the start of the Great Aylul Revolution, he returned to the village of Kalok, affiliated with the Barzan region, and once again became a Peshmerga with Ali Sha'ban, the commander of the Betwata force in the Khoshnawati and Betwen border area (1963-1970). In 1970, during the March 1970 Agreement and the formation of the border guards in the Balisan border area, where commander Ali Sha'ban was the regiment commander, he was with him until 1975. 

Sources:

1- Interview with his family, by Safar Zhazhoki, Soran district, May 2025.

2- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board