Mahmud Salman

{{Short description|Iraqi Air Force officer (1889–1942)}} {{for|the Israeli footballer|Hamudi Salman}} {{Infobox military person | name = Mahmud Salman | birth_date = 7 January 1889 | death_date = 5 May 1942 (aged 53) | birth_place = Baghdad, Ottoman Iraq, Ottoman Empire | death_place = Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq | death_cause = Execution by hanging | burial_place = | burial_label = | image = Mahmud Salman.png | caption = | nickname = | allegiance = {{ubl | {{flag|Ottoman Empire}} (1911–1918) | 23px Arab Kingdom of Syria | {{flag|Kingdom of Iraq}} (1934–1941) | }} | branch = Royal Iraqi Air Force | service_years = 1911-1941 | rank = Colonel | commands = Chief of the Air Force | unit = Ottoman Army<br />Iraqi Army (1922-1931) <br />Iraqi Air Force (1931 - 1941) | battles = First World War<br>Franco-Syrian War<br>Anglo-Iraqi War | awards = | other_work = }}

Colonel '''Mahmud Salman''' ({{Langx|ar|محمود سلمان}};{{lrm}} 7 January 1889 – 5 May 1942) 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. 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hamdi |first=Walid |title=Rashid Ali Al-Gailani and the Nationalist Movement in Iraq 1939–1941 |date=1987 |page=220}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Simon |first=Reeva Spector |title=Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny |date=2012 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=9780231507004 |page=119}}</ref>

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