He was born in 1930 in the village of Isomara, affiliated with the Barzan district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a bachelor's degree in agriculture from Tashkent University. After returning to Kurdistan, in 1959 he was appointed as an employee in the Erbil Agriculture Department. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went as a refugee to the Kingdom of Iran and settled in the city of Saveh. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Russian languages. He passed away in 1999 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Struggle RecordAfter the collapse of the second Barzan revolution on October 11, 1945, he went to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as 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. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region through the Khwakurk road and the Barazgar plain through the territory of Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argush and gave them the choice of staying or going 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 and the Battle of the 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, 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 compound surrounded by barbed wire, guarded by a group of soldiers, and 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, Ayolakh, 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 officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they 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 the Kurdish language.
After the bad treatment of Jafar Baghirov towards Barzani's companions, it was decided to move the military camp 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 in the Kolkhoz fields (lands that people rented from the government and later gave a share to the government).
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 Vrevsky, so he went to the city of Vrevsky 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 working with 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. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In the Year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution. In the Year 1962, he was a platoon commander in Mriba. He participated in the battles of Badinan, Mriba, Sari Akre, Piris Mountain, Barzan, Shirwan, Mergasor, Mal Sarij, Sari Bedaron, Dilman, and Haji Omaran. He was wounded in the battles of Piris Mountain and Mriba.
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