Biography

Khurshid Nabi Khalid was born in 1900 in the village of Uramar (Northern Kurdistan). Before going to the Soviet Union, he had two wives. His first wife was Armenian, named Halima Abdullah, and they had two sons and two daughters named Jibrail Khurshid (1924), Mikail Khurshid (1925), Amina, and Maryam. His second wife was Jewish, named Fatima Abdullah, and they had a daughter named Bahar Khurshid (1931). In 1929, due to the attack of the British army, he came to Southern Kurdistan and settled in the village of Balinda (Mergasor District - Erbil Governorate). On June 21, 1932, he became a refugee in the Republic of Turkey. In 1943, he was a policeman at the Sidekan police station (Erbil). He was proficient in the Kurdish and Russian languages.. He passed away in 1949 in the Soviet Union.

Struggle Record

 In 1945, he disarmed the Sidekan police station and joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945) and participated in the battles. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military court, all his movable and immovable property was seized. After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, on October 11, 1945, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan (Iran). On March 31, 1946, along with his son named Jibrail Khurshid, 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. His family crossed the Gadar River, which is located on the international border of the Kingdom of Iran and the Kingdom of Iraq, on April 15, 1947, along with Sheikh Ahmed Barzani, and were detained for several months in the Diana camp (Erbil).

He was also among those Peshmerga who, on April 19, 1947, returned to the Shirwan and Muzuri area of Erbil Governorate through the Xwakurk route and the Barazgar plain 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 of staying or leaving for the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union, and right at the beginning of the journey in the village of Dre, he was wounded due to the bombing by the aircraft of the Iraqi Royal Air Force, and after initial treatment, he continued the journey. He participated in the battles of the journey to the Soviet Union. On June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union..

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 18, 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, and they were guarded by a group of soldiers. In terms of food, clothing, and movement, they were treated like prisoners of war. 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, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, they were taught Kurdish language lessons daily for four hours by some of their companions who were literate..

After the poor treatment by Jafar Bagirov towards his 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, and they continued their military training there..

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 on the collective farms (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back)..

 In 1949, he passed away in the Soviet Union due to the effects of his wound.

Source:

1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Committee.