Biography

Yasin Muhammad, known as Arif Yasin Doski, was born in 1932 in the village of Bire, part of the Amadiya district. He was an employee at the Sarsing police station and later became a corporal and was transferred to Mosul. He spent two years in Erbil and was assigned as a mobile force to protect the borders of Keleshin and Khnere, and was awarded the rank of Rais Urafa by the government. He was transferred to the Shirwan police station for a year and six months. Once again, at the request of Sheikh Ahmed Barzani, he was transferred to the Tel station and was later returned by the government to the Shirwan police station. He served as a station commander in Barzan for 9 months, and was transferred again to the Tel station due to opposition from the police director of the Barzan area. In 1975, he became a refugee in Iran and resided in the Zewe camp. He passed away on February 22, 1992.

Struggle History

In 1960, Arif Yasin Doski, along with all the police officers at the station, joined the Peshmerga Forces with their weapons, ammunition, and radio equipment. In Aylul Revolution In 1961, he served as a squad leader in the Suwar Agha force and participated in the first battle in the Shirwan mountains. After the liberation of the Badinan region by Mullah Mustafa Barzani and before heading to the Soran region, he was appointed as an assistant to Muhammad Amin Mirkhani, the commander of the strike forces. He participated in battles in the Badinan region, such as the battles of Betnur, Qumri, Kani Balav, Ziwke, Besfke, Darya, Kameka, Garmawa Haji Agha, Lomana, Zawita, Sari Zey, Suwar and Spindar, Sari Atrush, Kavra Sur, Kulebehe, Talbzine, Nehla, and Sari Akre.

In 1962, he went to the Soran region and participated in the battles towards the Beshe pass, Gali Barsirin, Dargala, and the barracks of Galala and Choman, and they besieged the Rayat fortress for 42 days. Following Arif Yasin's instructions, they dug a tunnel underneath to capture the fortress. He was a force commander in the Siako mountains and participated in the battle of the Gardan Hushtari mountain. Under the supervision of Arif Yasin, the district governor and the director of the Mergasor sub-district were arrested, and all their equipment was seized.

On July 13, 1963, during the attack of the Iraqi army forces on the Peshmerga forces in Spilik, he was a commander of a Peshmerga platoon under the command of Colonel Abdul-Kafi al-Nabawi and participated in the battles of Spilik and Darbandi Kure.

In 1963, he was the person in charge of the Spilik area, and in a battle on the Khalifan-Spilik road, they captured a military battalion. In 1963, he was wounded in a battle in the Harir plain, and after receiving treatment, he returned to the Hawdian area. He participated in the battles of Hawdian and Baski Dari, Mazne, Shetne, Lelok, Khardan, Bestre, Gali Waje, the Goretu plain, Kulana Dari, and the Birsiavi hill, and was wounded for the second time. At the beginning of 1964, on the orders of Mullah Mustafa Barzani he moved his headquarters to Galala and the Valley of Martyrs and participated in the battles of Omer Qawm, Mawet, Gamo, Siri, and the Bari mountains. He was a front commander and participated in the battle of Hafiz, then returned to the Beshe pass, where he participated in the battles of the Omar Agha pass, behind Badlian, Sarukani Diana, Sartiz, and Zozk.

In 1966, he was appointed as a battalion commander and was a Peshmerga force commander in the battle of the Zozk mountain and the Omar Agha pass. In 1967, the Peshmerga force, under the command of Arif Yasin, managed to capture the mobile force station of Hiran in the village of Spindara. In 1970, during the formation of the border battalions, he was appointed as a company commander in the 10th Battalion in Kani Samaqok. After the resumption of the war, he was appointed as the person in charge of the Goraz front, where he supervised several battles and was wounded for the third and fourth time. In 1970, on the orders of Mullah Mustafa Barzani he was appointed as a force commander. After the 1975 collapse, he became a member of the refugee supervision committee in the Zewe camp. 

Arif Yasin participated in the Gulan Revolution and the provisional leadership, and was appointed as the person in charge of the Nerwa, Rekan, and Doski Jori area, and participated in the battles between the years (1976-1979). In 1979, he participated in the 9th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party In 1982, during the reorganization of the Peshmerga forces, he was the commander of Force 57 and a member of the operations command of the Oshnavieh and Keleshin area. In 1983, on the orders of President Masoud Barzani he was appointed as the person in charge of the Doski Jori area on the border of Region One. In 1986, he was appointed by President Masoud Barzani as an administrator of the Gulan district committee and was the supervisor of the military department until the Year 1987. In 1988, he participated in the Khwakurk battle and was a member of the Khwakurk operations command. He was in charge of the military department on the border of Branch One, and was also the commander of the Sidekan axis. 

Sources:
  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.
  2. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Volume Three, Part One, Ministry of Education Press, Erbil, 2004, pp. 7, 134, 136.
  3. Yusuf Sabri and Dilovan Mustafa, For the Freedom of the Homeland, Part One, Khani Press, Duhok, 2012, pp. 231, 277.
  4. In memory of the sixth anniversary of the passing of the heroic commander Arif Yasin Doski, Brayati Newspaper, Issue 2532, Erbil, Monday, February 23, 1998, p. 6.