He was born in 1914 in the Başqala village of Van, North Kurdistan.
His father was an Ottoman officer who was martyred in the war against Imperial Russia.
He settled in Zakho (on the border between South Kurdistan and North Kurdistan) because of his brother Mohammed, who was an officer in the Ottoman army and later in the army of the newly established Iraqi state. In 1937, he graduated from the College of Law at Baghdad University, in Baghdad, Iraq.
He was involved in political activities of his time and joined the Iraqi Communist Party.
In 1938, he was stripped of his Iraqi citizenship and so he lived secretly in the monastery of Sayyid Ahmad in Kirkuk.
In the early 1940s, he continued his political activities secretly in the villages of Goptapa and Askar.
His interaction with the local population allowed him to gain a great deal of knowledge about the Haqqah path.
In 1943-1944, he established friendly relations with both the Revolutionary and Liberation Parties. In 1946, at the request of both parties, he went to Mahabad and joined the Soviets with the intention of establishing a progressive revolutionary democratic party.
On a trip to Tehran, together with Martyr Mustafa Khoshnaw and several others, he showed the draft constitution and program of the Iraqi Kurdish Democratic Party to the Soviet officials, who approved it.
When the establishment of the PDK was announced, he returned to Iraqi Kurdistan and presented his project at the first PDK congress.
From then until the end of 1949, he was the secretary of the PDK. This great political leader was an unparalleled writer, especially in Arabic.
In 1958, he received back his Iraqi citizenship. His deteriorating health prevented him from being politically active as before, but he has always been a patriot and a guide to the new generation.
He spent the last two years of his life in Sulaymaniyah and died on #13-12-1998#. He was buried in a glorious ceremony in the cemetery of Sitak village.[1]