Qazi Muhammad, born May 1, 1893, died March 31, 1947

Qazi Muhammad, born May 1, 1893, died March 31, 1947, was an Iranian-Kurdish political leader. He was President of the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad from January 22, 1946 until it fell 11 months later. Before becoming president, he was a judge of a well-known family.



74 years ago Qazi muhammad in eastern kurdistan has decided to do so for the kurds and he and his friends together did so and formed the government in 1946 in mahabad which at that time was the capital city of kurdistan.

Qazi Muhammad became Kurdish first president.

Qazi Muhammad [1893-1947] (Kurdish: Qazí Mihemed) was born in 1893 in the city of Mehabad in Mukríyan province in Kurdistan. He was a political and religious leader who became the Head of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mehabad in 22nd Jan 1946.

Qazi Muhammad was the founder of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, the PDKI, which was a successor of a secret organisation “Komelley Jhíyanewey Kurd”.

A year later in 1947, after the Soviets withdrew from Iran, the Kurdish Republic was crushed by Iran’s central government. The Iranian military court sentenced Qazi and some of his associates to death, and he was hanged in Chwarchira Square (Kurdish: Meydaní Cuwarcira), in the centre of the city of Mehabad, on March 30, 1947.

Source:

1. Archie Roosevelt, Jr., “The Kurdish Republic of Mahabad”, Middle East Journal, no. 1 (July 1947), pp. 247-69