Mahmud Salman

Colonel Mahmud Salman (Arabic: محمود سلمان) was the Commanding Officer in the 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.

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 rule 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

  1. ↑ Hamdi, Walid (1987). Rashid Ali Al-Gailani and the Nationalist Movement in Iraq 1939-1941. p. 220.
  2. ↑ Simon, Reeva Spector (2012). Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny. Columbia University Press. p. 119. ISBN 9780231507004.
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