Haji Baba Sheikh ( ku, Hacî Baba Şêx –

Bukan Bukan ( fa, بوکان, translit=Bukân, ku, بۆکان, translit=Bokan) is the capital of Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. As of 2016, its population was estimated to be near 193,501 people or 56,000 families. The city is situated e ...

) was the

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *Kurds or Kurdish people *Kurdish languages *Kurdish alphabets *Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes: **Southern Kurdistan **Eastern Kurdistan **Northern Kurdistan **Western Kurdistan See also * Kurd (dis ...

prime minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

of the

Republic of Mahabad The Republic of Mahabad or the Republic of Kurdistan ( ku, کۆماری کوردستان / Komara Kurdistanê; fa, جمهوری مهاباد) was a short-lived Kurdish self-governing unrecognized state in present-day Iran, from 22 January to 1 ...

. After the republic was conquered by the Iranian army in 1947, unlike

Qazi Muhammad Qazi Muhammad ( ku, قازی محەممەد / Qazî Mihemed, fa, قاضی محمد; 1 May 1893 – 31 March 1947) was an Kurdish leader who founded the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and headed the short-lived, Soviet-backed Republic of ...

, he was not executed. He was immune because of his religious standing. The journalist and lyric

Hemin Mukriyani Seyed Mohammad-Amin Shaikholislami Mukri, better known by his pen name Hemin Mukriyani or Hêmin Mukriyānī (1921–1986) was a Kurdish poet, journalist, translator, and literary critic. He was born in the village of Lachin, near Mahabad in 1921 ...

was his secretary during the republic.

Literature

* Archie Roosevelt, Jr., "The Kurdish Republic of Mahabad", ''Middle East Journal'', no. 1 (July 1947), pp. 247–269 Republic of Mahabad Iranian Kurdish people Iranian Kurdish politicians Prime ministers Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan politicians {{Kurd-bio-stub