Biography

Taymaz Silki was born in 1924 in the village of Silke, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married and his wife's name was Ruhan and they had one child. Also, in the Soviet Union, he married for the second time to Valentina Dachichka, but when he returned from the Soviet Union, he did not bring her with him, and after his return, he married Misrikhan Shit Muhammad and had three sons and five daughters. In 1960, he was appointed as an employee in Rawanduz. He knew the Kurdish, Russian, Turkish, and Persian languages. He passed away on August 5, 2014, and was buried in the village of Silke..

Struggle Record

In 1942, Taymaz Silki became a soldier in the Kirkuk military camp. After the outbreak of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943, he joined the ranks of the revolution and on October 2, 1943, participated in the capture of the Shanadari police station. On October 12, 1943, he participated in the capture of the Khirazok police station, and for this reason, on August 19, 1945, by order of the military martial court, all his movable and immovable property was seized.

On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Maydan Morik police station, and on September 14, he was wounded in the battle of Piris Mountain. His father, Arab Qatran, was martyred in 1945 in the battle of Biaw Valley.

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, along with Mustafa Barzani and his companions, he crossed into Eastern Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, within the framework of the Barzan force, he defended the Republic and played an active role.

After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 3, 1947, he participated in the battle of Nalos, and on March 19, 1947, he participated in the battle of Naqada and Oshnavieh. He also participated in the battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region of Eastern Kurdistan and was wounded in that battle.

He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region on April 19, 1947, through the (Khwakurk and Barazgir plain) route via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 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 Qatur Valley and the battle of 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. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were 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, 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 the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.

After the bad treatment of the companions by Jafar Bagirov, 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 to 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, a letter finally 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. Eventually, 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 covered by the general amnesty.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, along with his companions, he returned to Kurdistan via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Grozia. 

After the outbreak of the Great Aylul Revolution in 1961, he participated in the revolution. In 1963, he was a battalion commander in the Soran region, and in 1967, he was a battalion commander in the Badinan region. He participated in the battles of Dashtabil, Naliwan, Sharansh, Kani Masi, Gali Zinta, Lomana, Maydanka Rovia, Gali Duhok, Sari Amedi, Matin Mountain, Bradost Mountain, Hawdian, Tahira, Miraw, Kani Spi, and Kawpar. In 1968, he was a battalion commander and official of the Amedi region.

 In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to the country of Iran as a refugee and settled in the Ziwa compound, and later he was moved to the city of Fereydunshahr in Mazandaran province, then to the city of Jahrom, and later to Kuhsang in Mashhad province, and in 1977 he went to the Sawa camp.

In 1979, he participated Gulan Revolution has done and is a member of the 9th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and was a Commander in the Khabat Force. In 1986, with the reorganization of the Peshmerga Forces, he was appointed as the Commander of the Party's Veteran Force and was entrusted with the task of protecting the Barzani shrine in the village of Helej.

 In 1993, he returned to the Kurdistan Region and settled in the town of Pirmam, and in 1996 he was retired. On August 16, 1996, within the framework of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, for his struggle and resistance in the second Barzan revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, and the Barzani march to the Soviet Union, Aylul Revolution and Gulan Revolution he was awarded the Barzani Immortal Medal by President Masoud Barzani. He passed away on August 5, 2014, and was buried in the village of Selke.

Sources:

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