He was born in 1925 in the village of Lode in the Botan region of North Kurdistan. He felt the oppression of the Turkish authorities since childhood, especially after the extinguishing of the Kurdish revolution in Ağrı Dagh in 1930 led by Ihsan Nuri Pasha They left their ancestors and moved to South Kurdistan and settled in Zakho engaged in family business.
The sense of nationalism was grown and developed in Sabri since he was a teenager and he joined Hiwa Party then. He was arrested in 1945 for supporting the Barzan Revolution and imprisoned in Mosul. When the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) was established in 1946, he became an active member of this national democratic party Since then, he has developed a talent for poetry and has composed national poems. With the outbreak of the Kurdish September Revolution on 11.09.1961, he became a Kurdistan Peshmerga and fulfilled his armed, struggle, cultural and media duties.
After the historic agreement of 11-03-1970, he came to Erbil and later went to Baghdad and participated in writing Kurdish newspapers and magazines such as Al-Takhi and Biryati, and later Bayan, Roshnbiri Nui and Kurdish writers.
After the outbreak of war in Kurdistan in the spring of 1974, he rejoined the Kurdish revolution and worked in the media department. Later, he returned to Baghdad to be under medical supervision in 1992, he moved to Norway and became a refugee. He participated in all Kurdish literary, cultural and political activities in that country until his death on 25-10-1998.
Sabri Botani was a talented poet of nature and beauty. He published his poems in Kurdish newspapers and magazines. He later published a beautiful book called Shin o Shadi in 1979 in Baghdad consisted of 262 pages of mid-sized paper. Most of his poems are in Kurdish light 7-verse 3-4 and have a strong content. He died on #25-10-1988#.[2]