Biography

Muhammad Ziad Hama Mahmud, known as Kaka Ziyad Koya, from the Ghafuri family, was born in the city of Koya in Erbil Governorate in the Year 1914. He studied Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages under Professor Zaki Ahmad Hanarayee. He sent his daughters to school, which was not common at that time. In the Year 1976, after the setback of Aylul Revolution , he took refuge in Iran. In the Year 1976, he returned to South Kurdistan and was deported by the authorities of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party to the city of Baghdad. In the Year 1983, he cooperated with the Barzani families whose men had been disappeared in the city of Baghdad. In the Year 1990, he returned to the Koya District. In the Year 1991, he headed to the Islamic Republic of Iran during the mass migration of the Kurds. On 12 April 1991, he passed away in the Naqadeh District (East Kurdistan), and on 25 August 1991, his body was laid to rest in the Kakon cemetery in the Koya District. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, and English. 

Struggle Pages

In the Year 1931, he supported the first Barzan revolution. He was a graduate of the fifth grade of primary school and was one of the founders of the Youth Association in Koya, known as the Enlighteners Association. In the Year 1939, he joined the Hiwa Kurdish Party. In mid-April 1941, he was a member of the Kurdish delegation to the cities of Erbil and Kirkuk when the Iraqi Prime Minister Rashid Ali al-Gaylani was hostile to the authorities of the British United Kingdom; he visited Rashid Ali al-Gaylani in Baghdad and delivered a speech in the Kurdish language. In the Year 1943, he was elected as a Member of the Iraqi Parliament by the voters in the Koya District. In the Year (1943-1945), he supported the Second Revolution of Barzan.

 He was a member and supporter of the Kurdistan Revival Society. In the Year 1943, he financially assisted the Al-Nasr Kurdish Club in the city of Baghdad. In the Year 1945, he joined the Rizgari Party. In the Year 1945, he provided financial assistance to the Communist Party in Iraqi Kurdistan (Revolution Party) to publish its publications. On 16 January 1945, he was deported to the Shaqlawa District in Erbil Governorate on charges of supporting the Second Revolution of Barzan and was placed under house arrest by the police for one year. In the Year 1945, he collected aid in support of the Kurdistan Revival Society (Zh.K) in the Koya District and also assisted it personally. In the Year 1945, he provided financial assistance to the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan. In the Year 1946, he purchased a house in the city of Baghdad and designated it as a dormitory that Kurdish students benefited from for free. In the Year 1946, he became the second deputy to the president of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the First Congress. In the Year 1946, he sheltered those who served in the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan and returned to their homes, as he sent them to their places. In the Year 1947, he sheltered many cadres of the Kurdistan Democratic Party who fled from the oppression of the Iranian Kingdom authorities, for example, Sadiq Haidari. In the Year 1947, he was elected as a Member of the Iraqi Parliament and carried out activities in the opposition front, and he supported and helped the Barzani prisoners and exiles while he was in Parliament. In the Year 1948, he participated with the slogan of freedom for the Barzani prisoners in the Baghdad demonstrations against the signing of the Portsmouth Treaty between the British United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Iraq. In the Year 1950, he supervised the Koya Conference and elected a new leadership to manage the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and thus he achieved his party tasks and the affairs of the degree granted to the First Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Until the Year 1951, he was known for supporting and helping the Jews in Koya until they were forcibly sent by the Iraqi government to Israel.

He was a member of the Iraqi Peace Movement. In the Year 1953, he was arrested for a short period by the authorities of the Kingdom of Iraq. In the Year 1955, he provided financial assistance to the Iraqi Communist Party to send a Kurdish delegate to the World Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw. In early the Year 1959, he was a member of the National Front Committee in the Koya District (Erbil) for the purpose of resolving disputes between the Partî and the Iraqi Communist Party in Koya. In the Year 1957, he bore the travel expenses of Jalal Husam al-Din Nur al-Din (- 2017), known as Jalal Talabani, to Moscow, who headed to the Russian capital to meet the leader Mustafa Barzani(1903-1979). On 26 July 1958, he chaired a meeting in the Koya District with a number of figures for the purpose of heading to Baghdad and preparing the demands of the Kurdish people. On 27 July 1958, he visited the Iraqi Ministry of Defense accompanied by a Kurdish delegation and offered congratulations to Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914-1963) on the occasion of the fall of the monarchy. In the Year 1959, the Fourth Congress of Kurdistan Democratic Party- Iraq was held in his house in the city of Baghdad. On 2 June 1959, most of his lands and properties were seized with the signature of the head of the Supreme Committee for Agrarian Reform, Staff Major General Abd al-Karim Qasim. On 22 December 1960, he was appointed as a member of the Tobacco Monopoly Department Council. In the Year 1960, he was a delegate to the 5th Congress of Kurdistan Democratic Party. On 16 September 1961, he was arrested and placed in the prisons of Erbil, Baghdad, and Kut, and his house was destroyed. In the Year 1963, he was released after the fall of the Abd al-Karim Qasim regime, and on 9 June 1963, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces. In the Year 1963, he was a delegate to the First People's Congress (Koya Congress). In the Year 1963, he hosted the leader Mustafa Barzani in his house during the First People's Congress (Koya Congress). In mid-the Year 1963, his house was burned by the National Guard forces affiliated with the Arab Ba'ath Party. In the Year 1964, he attempted to reconcile between the leader's wing and the Political Bureau. In the Year 1964, he participated in the Second People's Congress (Qaladze Congress). In the Year 1964, he became a member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In the Year 1965, he played a distinguished role in order to include the Hamadan refugees belonging to the Political Bureau wing in an amnesty from the leader Mustafa Barzani. In the Year 1966, he was a delegate to the Seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the sub-district of Galala in Erbil Governorate. In the Year 1980, he was a delegate to the Eighth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Nawprdan in Erbil Governorate.    

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