His full name is Yusuf son of Mir Badr Khan Beg and brother of Abdul Razzaq Badr Khan. He was born in He studied in 1872. He finished his studies in Istanbul, Geneva, and France. He was governor of Haifa until 1906, when he was exiled to the island of Rhodes. Kamil Badr Khan was a supporter of the Russians, and in 1917, after the victory of the October Revolution, Sheikh Mahmud sent a letter to Lenin. Kamil spoke Kurdish, Turkish and French. After the victory of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, he remained in Tbilisi and in early 1918 joined the French military attachment in Tibilis. He died in 1934.[1]