Mustafa Yamulki - Sulaimaniyah, Iraq
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This is a bust of Mustafa Yamulki, also known as Mustafa Pasha, a Kurdish military officer, chairman of the Ottoman military court, minister for education in the Kingdom of Kurdistan and a journalist.
Waymark Code: WM1C6Q1
Location: Iraq
Date Posted: 06/18/2025
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Mustafa Yamulki was born Sulaimaniyah, nowadays the second largest city of Iraqi Kurdistan, on the 25 January 1866. He attended Ottoman Military Academy in Istanbul and became an Army officer.
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"After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the World War I, he was appointed the head of the Turkish courts-martial on the 18 April 1920. As chairman of the Court, which was also called the "war tribunal of Nemrut Mustafa", he condemned Mustafa Kemal to death in absentia along with other of his associates. The warrant was also signed by Ali Kemal, Damad Ferid and the Sultan Vahdettin[page needed]. Mustafa also sentenced Ebubekir Hazim (Tepeyran), the Minister of the Interior for aiding the Turkish nationalists. He was dismissed from this office in June.
Mustafa stated,
Our compatriots have committed untold crimes by resorting to every conceivable form of despotism, organized deportation and massacre, burned feeding mothers doused with petrol alive, raped women and girls…. They have subjected the Armenians to intolerable conditions, such as no other people had ever experienced throughout history.
Later, Mustafa was arrested and sentenced to 7 months in prison. However, he was pardoned by Sultan Mehmed VI in February 1921. In June 1921 he left Turkey for Madatory Iraq and went on to live in his hometown of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.
His brother-in-law Izzet Bey was the former governor of the Van Vilayet and Minister of the Pious foundations under the cabinet of Ahmet Tevfik Pasha.
Mustafa's son was Abdul Aziz Yamulki, the chief plotter of coup d'état against the Bakir Sidqi government."
The bust in bronze is placed in a tall plinth, located by one of main avenues of Sulaimaniyah. It shows Mustafa Pasha in full uniform, in a scale a bit larger than real life.