Biography

Teymur Jafar was born in 1930 in the village of Hastekuk in Eastern Kurdistan. He studied in the Soviet Union, where he also started his married life with Natasha. In 1959, he was employed as an employee in a transport company in Baghdad, and upon the recommendation of Mustafa Barzani they were granted Iraqi citizenship by the authorities of the Republic of Iraq. On November 5, 1960, at the invitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he accompanied Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union on the anniversary of the October Revolution. There, he was able to complete his studies and receive a diploma from the institute. He started his studies for a second time and received a doctorate in the field of agriculture. In 1968, he became a professor at Kuban University in Krasnodar, and a year later, he became a professor at Yangiyul University in the Republic of Uzbekistan.

 In 1970, he returned to Kurdistan and became an employee at the Ministry of Agriculture again. On September 29, 1971, when they wanted to Mala Mustafa assassinate, he returned to Southern Kurdistan with the Kurdish ministers, and after the formation of the revolution leadership and the government, he returned to his profession. In 1974, he returned to Haji Omeran. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he went to Iran as a refugee and settled in Naghadeh, and later went to Yazd. Then he returned to Qotur to his relatives. Because he was Iranian by nationality and out of fear of SAVAK and taking advantage of the general amnesty of Saddam Hussein, he returned to the Republic of Iraq in 1978 and settled in Samawa, where he worked on cotton planting with an Egyptian doctor. Upon the recommendation of Sheikh Ahmed Naqshbandi, he returned to Erbil and became an employee in the Erbil administration. In 1991, after the Uprising, he went to Sardaw, and in 1993, he was retired.

Struggle Record

On March 31, 1946, along with his father, he became a Peshmerga in the army of the Republic of Kurdistan and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in the Republic of Kurdistan. His father was martyred in the battle of the Sardasht region. On June 3, 1947, in the village of Smail Agha, he accompanied Barzani towards the Soviet Union. He participated in the battles of the people of Qotur and the Maku bridge. On June 18, 1947, at the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, he crossed into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, he was 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, Ayolakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred 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, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, they were taught the Kurdish language for four hours daily by some of their companions who were literate.

After the bad treatment of Jafar Baghirov towards his companions, it was decided to move their 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 the government's share back).

After a lot of 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. 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.

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

On August 16, 1996, within the framework of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, for his struggle and resistance in the Republic of Kurdistan and his journey towards the Soviet Union, by President Masoud Barzani he was awarded the Barzani the Immortal Medal.

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