Çelebi (tribe)

The Çelebi are a Kurdish tribe or clan inhabiting the Mardin Province of southeastern Turkey.

They are involved in a long running land dispute with the 1,600-year-old Syriac Orthodox Mor Gabriel Monastery.[1] They were involved in the 2009 Mardin engagement ceremony massacre.

They are known for their closeness to the Turkish state.[1] They have been accused of participating in the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and they are currently allied to the Turkish government in its fight against the PKK (Kurdish) insurgency.[1]

Tribe member Süleyman Çelebi is a member of the Motherland Party.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Diyarbakir; Mardin (2 December 2010). "Wooing Christians". Economist.
  2. ↑ The Transformation of Kurdish Political Identity in Turkey: Impact of Modernization, Democratization and Globalization. ProQuest. 2009. pp. 75–. ISBN 978-1-109-05548-1.

Sources

  • Markus Dressler (10 April 2015). Writing Religion: The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam. Oxford University Press. pp. 121–. ISBN 978-0-19-023409-6.
  • Markus K. Tozman; Andrea Tyndall (2012). The Slow Disappearance of the Syriacs from Turkey and of the Grounds of the Mor Gabriel Monastery. LIT Verlag Münster. pp. 223–. ISBN 978-3-643-90268-9.
  • Ugur Ümit Üngör (1 March 2012). The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950. OUP Oxford. pp. 20–. ISBN 978-0-19-965522-9.
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