Biography

Born in 1925 in the village of Argosh, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazn sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate, he married a Soviet woman named (Maryam Abdullah Muhammad) in the Soviet Union. He passed away in 1966 and was buried in the (Dwin) cemetery, affiliated with the Salahaddin town.

Struggle Record

 After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he was among the Peshmerga who returned on April 19, 1947, through the Khwakurk route and the Bazargan plain to the territory of Northern Kurdistan, from the village of Khwakurk to the village of Argosh and the Herki region.

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 the companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union.

 On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Kotol (Qotur) and the Battle of the Maku Bridge, and 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, into the Soviet Union..‌

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire, guarded by a group of soldiers, and 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 lessons in the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate..

After the mistreatment of Barzani's companions by Jafar Baghirov, 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, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (Kolkhozes) (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back). 

After much effort and the sending of several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's final decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski; therefore, Muhammad Ali Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951..

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim, and Muhammad Ali Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions via the Grozia ship through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq..

After their return to the homeland in 1959 and the outbreak of the Aylul Revolution he returned once again to the duty of Peshmerga.

Source:

1- Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.