Abdul Aziz Yamulki

Who is Abdul Aziz Yamulki?

Abdul Aziz Yamulki was the son Mustafa Pasha Yamulki and an Ottoman military officer. After the fall of the Ottoman empire he became a member of the new Royal Iraqi military. Aziz was born in Sulaymaniah.

The Yamulki's were a prominent family of Sulaymaniah, Aziz was born into a privileged life, he moved to Constantinople and lived in his father's palace and attended the Ottoman military academy. He entered the Ottoman military but soon fled with his father when the Kemalists took power. After the creation of the Iraqi state and given his family and his education he joined the Iraqi military.