Mahmud Salman
Mahmud Salman | |
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Ottoman Iraq, Ottoman Empire | |
| Died | 5 May 1942 (aged 53) Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
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Colonel Mahmud Salman (
Royal Iraqi Air Force in the late 1930s and as a member of the Golden Square, was one of the four principal instigators of the 1941 Iraqi coup d'état
. Following the intervention of the British and the suppression of the coup, he was court-martialed and executed for treason.
Salman was born in Baghdad in 1889 and as a young man served as an officer in the Ottoman, Syrian and Iraqi armies, the latter which he joined in 1925.[1] In 1937, following the 1936 Iraqi coup d'état, when Bakr Sidqi became the de-facto ruler of Iraq and Commander of the Armed Forces, Salman was one of the small group of officers who planned the execution of Sidqi.[2]
References
- ^ Hamdi, Walid (1987). Rashid Ali Al-Gailani and the Nationalist Movement in Iraq 1939–1941. p. 220.
- ISBN 9780231507004.
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