Name Qazi Muhammad Political party PDKI Role Political leader | Profession Lawyer Children Efat Ghazi Religion Islam | |
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Preceded by Iranian MonarchyPahlavi dynasty Succeeded by Iranian MonarchyPahlavi dynasty Died March 31, 1947, Mahabad, Iran Presidential term January 22, 1946 – December 15, 1946 Organizations founded Kurdistan Democratic Party Similar People Mustafa Barzani, Masoud Barzani, Ja'far Pishevari, Idris Barzani, Jalal Talabani | ||
Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmad takes oath as judge of Supreme Court
Qazi Muhammad (Kurdish: قازی محەممەد / Qazî Mihemed) (1893–1947) was a Kurdish separatist leader who headed the Republic of Mahabad. He was hanged by Pahlavi dynasty for treason.
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- Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmad takes oath as judge of Supreme Court
- Qazi Muhammads Republic The leader who sacrificed himself
- Biography
- Family
- References
Qazi Muhammad's Republic - The leader who sacrificed himself
Biography
Qazi Muhammad acted as the President of the Republic of Kurdistan in 1946. This is discounted by some. He was also the founder of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, that was established after the need for a more transparent party was felt by its adherents. (Komeley Jiyanewey Kurd existed prior to that, as a secret organization.) Mustafa Barzani, one of the "leaders" of the nationalist Kurdish movement in Iraqi Kurdistan, was also the commander of its army. His cousin Mohammed Hossein Saif Qazi was a minister in his cabinet. A year later, after the Soviets withdrew from Iran, the Kurdish Republic was crushed by Iran's central government. An Iranian military court sentenced Qazi and two of his associates to death by hanging in Chwarchira Square, in the center of the city of Mahabad, on March 31, 1947. They were left hanging for more than two days.
Family
One of his sons, Ali Qazi, is today an active member in the Kurdish movement. One of his daughters, Efat Ghazi, was killed by a letter bomb in Västerås, Sweden, in 1990. The bomb was addressed to her husband, the Kurdish activist Emir Ghazi. Some analysts speculated that the Iranian government might have been involved in the assassination.
