Biography

He was born in 1928 in the village of Kanyeder, in the Goretu sub-district of the Mergasor district in Erbil province. He studied in the Soviet Union and was accepted into Tashkent University on February 15, 1954, receiving his diploma on March 29, 1959. After returning from the Soviet Union, he worked as an agricultural supervisor in the offices of Sulaymaniyah and Kirkuk in 1959. He knew both Kurdish and Russian. He passed away on April 18, 2007, and was buried in the village of Kanyeder.

Work History

On June 21, 1932, he migrated with his family to the Republic of Turkey. After the failure of the Second Barzan Revolution, he crossed into East Kurdistan on October 11, 1945. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga within the Barzani forces of the army of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan.

On April 19, 1947, he decided to continue his resistance under the command of General Mustafa Barzani. On May 22, 1947, after the great meeting in the village of Dire, he went with that force following the decision to go to the Soviet Union. On June 18, 1947, he crossed from the Aras River on the international border of Iran into the Soviet Union. On June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained for forty days in a community in the vicinity of Sakedasht in Nakhchivan, in the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, which was surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by soldiers and treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, they were gathered by the authorities of the Soviet Union and distributed to the Aghdam, Lachin, and Ayulakh regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, he was transferred to the Baku camp in the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, and on December 23, 1947, they were given military training and military uniforms. They were taught military training for eight hours a day under the supervision of officers of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan, and four hours of reading and writing in Kurdish by educated refugees. On August 29, 1948, he and all his comrades were transferred from the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan to the Chirchuk community near Tashkent, the capital of the Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training. In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed to villages by train and worked on collective farms. In November 1951, he returned to Vriviski in the Soviet Union. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his comrades via the ship Girozya through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. In 1961, he participated in the September Revolution and took part in several battles. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he went to Iran as a refugee. In 1984, he participated in the Gulan Revolution and took part in battles. He returned to Kurdistan in 2003.

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