Biography

He was born in 1930 in the village of Xerdin in the Goretu sub-district of the Mergasor district in Erbil. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a Bachelor's degree in political science in the city of Saratov. After returning from the Soviet Union, he was appointed as a teacher in Kirkuk in 1959. In 1960, he returned to Mergasor and became the director of the Mergasor school. He also worked in the secret organizations of the KDP and was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian.

Career

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the fighting. On August 19, 1945, by the decision of the Iraqi Military Court, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated. After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he crossed into East Kurdistan on October 11, 1945.

On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga among the Barzani forces of the Army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region, and on May 3, 1946, he participated in the battle of Milqeren.

After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the battle of Nelos on March 3, 1947, and in the battle of Gucar on March 13-14, 1947, where he was wounded. On March 19, 1947, he participated in the battle of Naqadeh and Oshnavieh, and on March 25, he participated in the battle of Hevris and Halabja.

He was one of the Peshmerga who returned to the Sherwan and Mizuri regions on April 19, 1947, via Khwakurk and the Berazgir Plain through North Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Ergoş on May 15, 1947, 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 22, 1947, along with General Mustafa Barzani he headed toward the Soviet Union and participated in the battle of the Qitur Valley and the battle of the Mako bridge. After many hardships and difficulties, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union into the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were settled in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in a closed camp surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. Later, by the decision of the Soviet state, they were distributed in Azerbaijan in the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulax, and Kalbajar. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base 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 underwent 8 hours of military training daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they received four hours of Kurdish language lessons daily from some of their educated companions.

After the poor treatment of his companions by Jafar Bakirov, it was decided on August 29, 1948, to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Chirchik community near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farms (lands that people had received from the state and later gave a share to the government).

After much effort and the sending of several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the suffering and pain of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and in the end, the committee's decision was to gather them all in the city of Vriviski. For this reason, the aforementioned 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, according to articles 3 and 7, paragraph (a) of article 10, and article 11 of the amendment law number 19 of 1959, a general amnesty was granted to him and his companions.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan via the ship Girozya through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1961, he participated in the September Revolution and was a captain. From December 7 to 12, 1961, he participated in the Battle of Zawita Valley. On March 23, 1962, he was martyred in the battle of Baadre (Duhok) and was buried in the village of Xurke.

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