He was born in the autumn of 1955 in Salahaddin (Masif) town of Erbil province. He completed his primary and secondary education there. In 1961, when his father became a Peshmerga, their living conditions were extremely poor, so they lived in poverty.
In 1974, like all Kurdish families in Kurdistan, he moved to the mountains and settled in Iran until the 1975 agreement and the collapse of the September Revolution. In 1975, he graduated from Erbil Agricultural High School.
In the same year, he was appointed to the Shaqlawa Agricultural Bank, but he was still with the suffering of his people, so in February 1976 he joined the Kurdistan Workers' Association, the main wing of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
On 22-05-1977, after the exposure of Komala's organizations in Erbil, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
When Saddam Hussein became president in a coup in 1979, he was granted a general amnesty. He was in Abu Ghraib until then. After his return in 1981, he returned to the mountains and became a Peshmerga of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
His parents were arrested by the Ba'ath regime and sent to Faziliya prison in Baghdad. Khalid Harki was arrested by his rival party due to the civil war and sent to Zewa prison.
He stayed there for a while, broke prison and escaped and joined his comrades in Nawzang. During the uprising, he played an important role in the liberation of Masif and the surrounding villages and participated in the liberation of Kirkuk.
He has been appointed to several positions in the party, the last of which was the deputy of the 18th Khabat headquarters in 2006.
He continues to write and translate and has participated in several articles and hot political articles in websites, newspapers and magazines.[1]