Abdul Aziz Yamulki (21 December 1890 – 25 July 1981) was the son of

Mustafa Yamulki Mustafa Yamulki (25 January 1866 – 25 May 1936), also known as "Nemrud" Mustafa Pasha, was a Kurdish people, Kurdish military officer,The Kurdish national movement: its origins and development, Wadie Jwaideh chairman of the Ottoman military cour ...

, nephew of

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and Kurd Ahmet Izzet Pasha and a cousin of

Şerif Pasha Mehmet Şerif Pasha (1865, Üsküdar, Istanbul - December 22, 1951; Catanzaro, Italy), a founding member of Kurd Society for Cooperation and Progress and representative of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan to the Paris Peace Conference (1 ...

and Kurd Fuad Pasha. Yamulki was born into a prominent family from Sulaymaniah; Aziz was raised in a privileged environment and moved to

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, where lived in his uncle's

's palace and attended the

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. His father had returned to his native Sulaymaniah after the fall of the

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, Aziz would later join the

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Golden Square of Colonels

Aziz and seven other officers mainly of Kurdish ethnicity started to plot the downfall of the Iraqi government. * Aziz Yamulki, officer commanding Mechanical Transport. * Amin al-Umari, officer commanding the first Infantry Division. * Salah ad-Din as-Sabbagh, as Director of Military Operations. * Mahmud Salman, as officer commanding Mechanized Forces. * Kamil Shabib, as Commandant of the Infantry.

The Plot

The "plan of assassination was an elaborate and carefully considered one". Aziz had drawn up four plans to carry out the assassination, the first, was to kill him at the Mosul Rest House, the second, at his brother's house, the third, by an attack on Bakr's car on his way to Tel-Kutchuk and finally the master plan at the Military club where it was planned to entertain Bakr in the evening of the day of his arrival. Aziz Yamulki, then president of the club, was to give a secret signal and the assassination was to take place when the lights were to be put out.

Diplomatic corps

After his involvements in coup d'état Aziz was distanced by being sent to

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as Iraq

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at Kabul. Appointed

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of Iraq at

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on 17 August 1943.THE LONDON GAZETTE, 8 OCTOBER 1943

References

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