Foad Mostafa Soltani (also known as Kak “brother” Foad) was a founding member, and the most prominent figure, of the Revolutionary Organisation of the …
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Sheikh Said of Piran was a Kurdish Sunni religious leader and freedom fighter originally from a village in Bismil town of Amed (Diyarbakir). Sheikh …
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Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji was born in 1878 in Sulayimaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. During the British occupation of Iraq following the First World War, …
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Mustafa Barzani was born in Barzan, a village in Iraqi Kurdistan (then the Ottoman Empire) in 1903. Barzani was appointed Minister of Defense for …
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Abdullah Ocalan was born on April 4, 1949 and grew up in a large family in the village of Amara (called Omerli in Turkish) …
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Mam Jalal is the son of Sheik Hisamadeen of Sheik Nuri, the son of Sheik Ghafour. He was born in Kalkan village at the …
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Qazi Muhammad was born in Mahabad, Kurdish region of Iran (then called Persia) in 1893. A well-known and educated leader, Qazi Muhammad led a …
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Adul Rahman Ghassemlou is a Kurdish leader born on December 1930 and assassinated on July 13, 1989, in Vienna by the Islamic Republic of …