Biography

Shakir Beg Oghuz Beg was born in 1921 in the village of Zarn in the Shemdinan district of Hakkari province. Before going to the Republic of Kurdistan, he was married; his wife's name was Zarif Abdulbaqi and they had children, but the children passed away. After going to the Soviet Union, he married Maria Majid Osman and they had two sons and two daughters named Ismat Shakir (1953), Amin Shakir (1958), Habiba Shakir (1959), and Maryam Shakir (1951). Shakir Beg was appointed as an official on the border in 1959, he was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian languages, passed away in February 2008, and was buried in the village of Hazir.

Struggle Record

On June 21, 1932, he and his family were displaced to the Republic of Turkey. In 1934, his father Oghuz Zulfiqar was martyred in Chamalia. In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles. On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzan Force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in the Republic of Kurdistan.

 After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region through the Khwakurk and Barazgar plain on April 19, 1947, via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 15, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur Valley and the Battle of Maku Bridge, and 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, towards 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 complex surrounded by barbed wire, and 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, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved 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, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate.

After Jafar Bagirov's poor treatment of Barzani's companions, it was decided to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, 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 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, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and finally the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski, so he went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article and the implementation of the eleventh article based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were granted a general amnesty. 

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

 In Year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a Sergeant and participated in the battles, he was responsible in Mount Safin. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee. In Year 1979, he returned to Kurdistan, and in 1991, he was a Force Commander.

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