Officer and politician, Izet Abdulaziz Abdulatif Mahmud Kitani, in the year 1939 was a member of the Darker Association and a member of the Hiwa Party. In the year 1944, he was appointed by the Iraq Government as a liaison officer with the second Barzan revolution in the Bile district. He was among the participants of the second Barzan revolution (1943 - 1945). In the year 1945, he was on the founding committee of the Azadi Committee. The same year, he was the commander of the defense front of the second Barzan revolution on the Western front (Amadiya). In the year 1946, he was among the participants of the Republic of Kurdistan in the city of Mahabad with the rank of Colonel (Aqid Rukin). The same year, he was a member of the founding committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party (Kurdistan Democratic Party).

Biography

Izet Abdulaziz was born in the year 1912 in the city of Amadiya, which was part of the Mosul province at that time and is now in Duhok. He completed his primary and secondary education in the city of Amadiya and in the year 1935 he went to the Military College in Baghdad and graduated with the rank of Lieutenant (Mulazim). In the year 1943, he graduated from the Staff College in the artillery department with the rank of Major (Raid Rukin). He served in the artillery department of the military bases in Baghdad and Mosul. In the year 1939, he was in the Darker Association and after its establishment, he joined the ranks of the Hiwa Party and was one of its active members in Duhok and Mosul.

Work History

In the year 1944, during the negotiations with the second Barzan revolution, he was appointed by the Royal Government of Iraq as a liaison officer in the Bile district. The same year, he established contact with the ranks of the revolutionaries of the second Barzan revolution. In the year 1945, he was on the founding committee of the Azadi Committee under the leadership of Mustafa Barzani (1903 - 1979). At the beginning of March 1945, at the meeting of the Azadi Committee, Izet Abdulaziz was appointed as the commander of the Western defense front and Amadiya. In April 1945, he was a member of the negotiation committee with the Royal Government of Iraq and the British authorities in Iraq. On April 30, 1945, the Azadi Committee, at the request of the Royal Government of Iraq, decided to return to the Iraqi army to avoid clashes and war. On May 7 of the same year, after returning to the Royal Iraqi Army, he was taken to the Military Court for his participation in the revolution, but he managed to save himself and returned to Barzan once again. On August 19, 1945, the Military Court, due to his participation in the second Barzan revolution and the Royal Court, issued a decision to seize all his movable and immovable property and also issued a death sentence for him.

 

On October 11, 1945, after the end of the second Barzan revolution, he migrated to East Kurdistan. By the decision of the leadership and after the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in East Kurdistan in the city of Mahabad, his rank was promoted to Colonel (Aqid Rukin). He participated in the defense war of the Republic of Kurdistan until his return to Iraq. On April 15, 1947, after the fall of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, he surrendered to the Iraqi Government at the Gader border. Initially, he and 3 of his friends were taken to the city of Erbil and later transferred to the central prison of Baghdad. In a fake court, they imposed the same previous sentence on him, and although many Kurdish personalities in Kurdistan visited Baghdad to change and lighten this decision, it was of no use. One day after the passage of Mustafa Barzani and his arrival on the soil of the Soviet Union, inside the Baghdad prison and in front of the eyes of the Kurdish prisoners, he went to the gallows singing the Kurdish anthem and was executed on June 19, 1947. His body was taken to his birthplace and buried in Kaniya Since near the city of Amadiya. Fayeq Bekas (1905 - 1948), the Kurdish poet, wrote the poem 'Qewmî Kurd' in memory of the four Kurdish officers. The great Kurdish poet Tawfiq (1867 - 1950) wrote the poem 'Kostey Niwê'. The news of his execution was broadcast on Baghdad radio, and that day was named the Day of Martyrs.



 

Source:

1 - Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.