Biography

He was born in 1920 in the village of Teli, affiliated with the Barzan district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. In the Soviet Union, he formed a married life with Khoshi Reza Aslan. They had two sons and a daughter named Khalil Suleiman (1950), Ramazan Suleiman, and Khadija Suleiman. Suleiman Abdullah was proficient in both Kurdish and Russian languages. On July 31, 1983, during the Barzani Anfal operation, he was disappeared by the Iraqi government in the Qushtapa complex along with his two sons, Ramazan Suleiman and Muhyiddin Suleiman.

Struggle Record

Suleiman Abdullah joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943 and participated in the battles. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military field court, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On October 11, 1945, after the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region. 

After the defeat of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 19, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh in Eastern Kurdistan. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region through the Khwakurk road and the Barazgir plain on April 19, 1947, through the territory of Northern Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 15, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or head towards the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur and the Battle of the Maku Bridge. 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 complex 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 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 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, 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 bad treatment of Jafar Bagirov towards the Barzani companions, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex 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 on the collective farms (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave back the government's share). 

After much effort and sending 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 the Barzani companions. Finally, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article and working with the eleventh article based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were granted a general amnesty. 

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

In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and participated in the battles of Pirs and Sari Barzani. After the defeat of the Aylul Revolution in 1975, he was displaced by the Iraqi government to southern Iraq and settled in the city of Hilla, and later transferred to the Qushtapa complex. On July 31, 1983, during the Barzani Anfal operation, he was disappeared by the Iraqi government in the Qushtapa complex.

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