Bakr Sidqi

Bakr Sidqi (Arab: بكرصدقي), was a general Iraq IEN nationalist, born in 1890 with Kirkuk and assassinated with Mosul the August 12th 1937.

Sidqi is Kurdish Iraqi of origin , he joined the Othoman army during the occupation of the country by the Ottoman Empire. By joining the army it was already a nationalist Arabic, it had like drank to release the Iraq and the Arab grounds of the Turkish domination.

After the independence of Iraq, shortly after the First World War, the king Fayçal I names it general. It spent much time to repress tribal revolts Assyrian with the beginning of the year 1930. In August 1933 Sidqi led the Iraqi army in the north of the country to crush a revolt carried out by Assyrian separatists, in the town of Shemail, close to Mosul. Nearly 5000 Assyrian civilians found death during the engagements.

In October 1936, during the reign of the young king Ghazi Ier, Sidqi orders the Iraqi army. Thus with preserving friends, opposed to the democratic reforms it proceeds to a Coup d'etat, while directing an attack surprised on Baghdad reversing the first-minister Yassin Al-Hachimi. It replaces Hachimi by Hikmat Suleyman. It is probably the first modern coup d'etat which the Arab Monde knew.

After the inversion of the government, it controls de facto Iraq until its assassination the August 12th 1937 after nationalist soldiers withdraw their confidence to him. What involves the resignation of Hikmat Suleyman which is replaced by Jamil Al-Midfai.

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