Silêman Îsmaîl Cihangîr was born in 1927 in the village of Botiya in the Duhok Governorate. In 1959, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1961, he became a cadre at the Duhok District Committee within Branch One (1). In 1967, he received the rank of Squad Leader of the Peshmerga of the Duhok District Committee. In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he returned to his village and was deported by the Iraqi regime to the city of Diwaniyah in South Iraq. In 1977, he returned to the ranks of the revolution and served as a cadre at the Duhok District Committee for one year, and later became the Head of the Amedi District Committee.
In 1983, one of his sons named Majid Silêman, who was the head of the secret Cudi organization, was martyred. In September 1987, another one of his sons named Mihemed Salih Silêman, who was the head of the Amedi District Committee, was martyred in the battle of Kani Mase in the Duhok Governorate. In 1988, during the widespread Anfal operation and the chemical bombardment of the Behdinan region, his third son named Fexrî Silêman, who was a Peshmerga of the Duhok District Committee, was arrested along with a group of other people by the Iraqi regime and was later martyred. In the same year, Silêman Îsmaîl and his family were deported to the Cejnîkan complex near Behirkê in the Erbil Governorate. In 1990, he returned to the Duhok Governorate. In 1991, during the uprising and rebellion of the people of South Kurdistan, and specifically in the uprising of the village of Malta in the Duhok Governorate, he played a prominent role. Because of that, he once again received the rank of cadre of the Duhok District Committee at Branch One (1). At the thirteenth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 2010, he received the Barzani medal from President Masoud Barzani.
Source:1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board