The fighter Apo Osman Sabri... his life and struggle

ARK News... on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, marked the twenty-ninth anniversary of the departure of the fighter Osman Sabri.

About his life and struggle:
The fighter Osman Sabri was born on October 5, 1905, in the village of Naranji in the Kehti district of Adiyaman State in Northern Kurdistan, the son of Sabri Agha, the leader of the Merdisa clan.

He entered the Rashidiye school at the age of seven and graduated from it in 1920. He then returned to his village and his uncle Shukri Agha was the head of the clan after his father's death. He married early and his first wife gave birth to three children, and soon she died with two of her children. The third was killed at the age of forty-seven. His age and his name was Walat, married Osman again and had three sons (Hoshang, Hoshin, Haval) and two daughters (Hankur, Hevi) and adopted his niece (Koye) in 1925-1926, he participated with his uncles Shukri and Nori in the revolution of Sheikh Saeed Piran, and they were arrested and his uncle executed as for him, he remained in prison until 1928, when he was released under a general amnesty.

Osman Sabri struggled to raise the level of social and political awareness of his people by joining parties, gatherings, and clubs. He contributed to the Khyoboun Organization, which was founded in the late twenties by the Badrakhanis, Mamdouh Salim, Qadri Jamil Pasha, Mustafa Bozan Shahin Bag, and other traditional Kurdish leaders, and the struggle coordination between the Khyoboun organization and the Akri Dagh revolution.

He contributed to the establishment of the Kurdistan Club in Damascus in 1938 and contributed to the founding of the first organized Kurdish party in Syria under the name of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Syria in 1957 with Dr. Khalil Muhammad, Muhammad Ali Khoja, Abdel Hamid Darwish, Hamza Nuweran, Shawkat Naasan Rashid Hamo, and Dr. Noraddin Zaza as the party’s head.

He retired from political work in 1969, and was content with cultural work and teaching the Kurdish language, publishing articles, research, and poems in the magazines Hawar, Ronahi, Roja Nu, and Ster.

Among the cultural and sports clubs that he contributed to founding:

1- Salahuddin Cultural and Sports Club in 1938 in Damascus.
2- Kurdistan Club in 1942 in Damascus.
3- Hanano Club in 1949 in Damascus.
4- Al-Jazira Club in 1954 in Damascus.

Osman has written several books, including:

1- The Storm - Damascus 1956.
2- Our pain - Damascus 1957.
3- Latin Kurdish Alphabet - Damascus 1955.
4- The Four Heroes - Damascus 1984.
5- Apo poems (a collection of poetry published in Germany in 1981).

Osman Sabri was arrested 18 times, the periods varying between days, months, and years due to his tireless national struggle and his resistance to the regimes that persecute the Kurdish people. He was arrested twice in Iraq in 1930-1931, and twice in Lebanon in 1935, and from Lebanon, he was exiled to the island of Madagascar in the same year. In Syria, his arrest was repeated 12 times, most notably five months during the reign of Hosni al-Za’im, nine months in Aleppo in 1959, six months in Mazzeh prison in late 1966, and finally a year and a half in al-Qalaa prison in 1971.

On the eleventh of October, 1993 in the village of Berkfri, in the Derbasiya area, Osman Sabri passed away, leaving an immortal struggle and cultural legacy that he immortalized as a flag of the Kurdish liberation struggle.

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