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Qazi Muhammad
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President of the Republic of Mahabad
In office
22 January 1946 – 15 December 1946
Preceded by Office created
Succeeded by Office abolished
Personal details
Born (1893-05-01)1 May 1893
Mahabad, Kurdstan
Died 30 March 1947(1947-03-30) (aged 53)
Mahabad, kurdstan
Citizenship Kurdish
Political party PDK
Children Efat and Ali Qazi, Pavin Qazi
Profession Lawyer

Qazi Muhammad (1893-1947) was the Nationalist and Religious Kurdish leader and the Head of Republic of Mahabad (Republic of Kurdistan), the second modern Kurdish state in the Middle East (after Republic of Ararat). He acted as the president of the Russian backed Republic of Mahabad, in Kurdistan of Iran (Eastern Kurdistan) in 1946. He was also the founder of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran. A year later, the Kurdish national movement (Komeley Jiyanewey Kurd) that he helped organize was crushed by Iran's central government. The Iranian military court sentenced him to death, and he was hanged in Chuwarchira Square in the center of city of Mahabad at March 30 1947. Mustafa Barzani, the father of nationalist Kurdish movement in Iraqi Kurdistan (Southern Kurdistan), was the defence minister in his cabinet. One of his sons Ali Qazi is today an active member in the kurdish movement.

Literature

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

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