Kurdish tribes

Kurdish-inhabited areas

The following is a list of tribes of Kurdish people from the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan.

Turkey

  • Ademan, Kurmanj-speaking tribe. Part of the Zil confederation.[1] Did not join the Sheikh Said rebellion.[1]
  • Alikan, tribe. Tribe member Mehmet Ali Suçin is a politician of the Justice and Development Party (AKP).[2]
  • Badıka, tribe. Tribe member Ahmet İnal is a politician of the Justice and Development Party (AKP).[2]
  • Badıllı, tribe. Tribe member Ahmet Öncel is a politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP).[2]
  • Beg, tribe.
  • Bekiran, tribe. Tribe member Nuri Dağdağa is a politician of the Justice and Development Party (AKP).[2]
  • Bucak, tribe. Inhabiting the area of Siverek.[3] Feuded with Kirvar.[4]
  • Burukan, Kurmanj-speaking tribe. Part of the Zil confederation.[1] Did not join the Sheikh Said rebellion.[1] Tribe member Şerif Bedirhanoğlu is a politician of the Motherland Party (ANAP), and Mehmet Kartal and Necmi Yağizer of the Republican People's Party (CHP).[2]
  • Buruki, tribe.
  • Celali, Kurmanj-speaking tribe. Part of the Zil confederation.[1] Did not join the Sheikh Said rebellion.[1]
  • Çelebi, tribe or clan in the Mardin Province. They are known for their closeness to the Turkish state.[5] 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.[5] Tribe member Süleyman Çelebi is a politician of the Motherland Party.[2]
  • Cibran, Kurmanj-speaking tribe. Joined the Sheikh Said rebellion.[1]
  • Chikak (or Shikak), tribe. Also lives in Iran.
  • Cumeyli, tribe. Tribe member Mahmut Özyavuz is a politician of the National Movement Party (MHP).[2]
  • Dağ, tribe. Tribe member Selahattin Dağ is a politician of the Justice and Development Party (AKP).[2]
  • Dakuri (or Takori), Kurmanj-speaking tribe. Part of the Zil confederation.[1] Did not join the Sheikh Said rebellion.[1]
  • Demenan, tribe. Joined the Dersim rebellion.[6]
  • Dıri, tribe. Tribe member Nusret Öner is a politician of the Motherland Party.[2]
  • Dostki, tribe. Tribe member Esat Canan is a politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP).[2]
  • Ensarioğlu, tribe.
  • Epdoyi, Kurmanj-speaking tribe. Part of the Zil confederation.[1] Did not join the Sheikh Said rebellion.[1]
  • Ertuşi, tribe.
  • Gerdi, tribe. Tribe member Ekrem Çetinkaya, mayor of Derecik in Hakkâri. Supports Turkey against PKK.[7]
  • Gıravi, tribe. Tribe member Abdulhalik Özdinç is a politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP).[2]
  • Goran, tribe. Tribe member Irfan Arslan is a politician of the Motherland Party.[2]
  • Guyan, tribe.
  • Hasanan, Kurmanj-speaking tribe. Part of the Zil confederation.[1] Mostly did not join the Sheikh Said rebellion.[1]
  • Hayderan, Kurmanj-speaking tribe. Part of the Zil confederation.[1] Did not join the Sheikh Said rebellion.[1] Joined the Dersim rebellion.[6]
  • Herkî, tribe in southeastern Anatolia. Supported the government in the Sheikh Said rebellion.
  • Hevêrki, Kurmanj-speaking Yazidi tribe in Tur Abdin.[8]
  • Hıdırsor, tribe. Tribe member Sait Doğan is a politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP).[2]
  • Hisar, tribe. Tribe member Haluk Kaya is a politician of the Motherland Party.[2]
  • Hormek, tribe. Zaza-speaking Alevi tribe. Supported the government in the Sheikh Said rebellion.[9] Some tribal leaders have defined themselves as Turks since the 1930s.[9]
  • İzol, tribe. Tribe member Zülfükar İzol is a politician of the Justice and Development Party (AKP).[2]
  • Kalender, tribe. Tribe member Turun Tüysüz is a politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP).[2]
  • Karakeçi, tribe.
  • Kejan, tribe. Tribe member Ahmet Kıran is a politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP).[2]
  • Kıçan, tribe. Tribe member Abdurrahman Abay is a politician of the Motherland Party.[2]
  • Kırvar, tribe. Inhabiting the area of Siverek. Feuded with Bucak.[4]
  • Koçgiri, Zaza-speaking Alevi tribe. Led the Koçgiri rebellion.[10] Includes the clans of Saran (Sariki), Iban (Ibiki), Çarekan (Çareki), Balan (Baliki), Sefan (Sefiki).
  • Kuran, tribe.
  • Kureyşan, tribe.
  • Lolan, Zaza-speaking Alevi tribe. Supported the government in the Sheikh Said rebellion.[9] Some tribal leaders have defined themselves as Turks since the 1930s.[9]
  • Mamkuran, tribe. Tribe member Adil Gökçe is a politician of the National Movement Party (MHP).[2]
  • Melkişo, tribe. Tribe member Fudayıl Yüksel is a politician of the National Movement Party (MHP).[2]
  • Mersavi
  • Milan, Kurmanj-speaking tribe. Part of the Zil confederation.[1] Did not join the Sheikh Said rebellion.[1]
  • Pinyaniş, tribe in the Hakkâri Province.[11]
  • Raman
  • Reşvan
  • Şadili, Kurmanj-speaking tribe. Part of the Zil confederation.[1] Did not join the Sheikh Said rebellion.[1]
  • Semsi, Kurmanj-speaking tribe. Part of the Zil confederation.[1] Did not join the Sheikh Said rebellion.[1]
  • Şemsıkan (or Shemsiki)
  • Şerro
  • Seydan, tribe. Tribe member Mehmet Ekinci is a politician of the Motherland Party.[2]
  • Şeyhanlı, tribe.
  • Şeyhbızın
  • Şigo
  • Şıhanlıoğlu, tribe. Tribe member Seyit Eyüpoğlu is a politician of the Motherland Party.[2]
  • Sinemilli
  • Sinika, tribe. Tribe member Nezir Nasıroğlu is a politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP).[2]
  • Sıpertiyan, tribe. Tribe member Cemil Taşkin is a politician of the Republican People's Party (CHP).[2]
  • Şeroxan
  • Tayan
  • Tirikan, tribe.
  • Torular, Kurmanj-speaking tribe. Part of the Zil confederation.[1] Did not join the Sheikh Said rebellion.[1]
  • Yusufan, tribe.
  • Zirkan, Kurmanj-speaking tribe. Part of the Zil confederation.[1] Did not join the Sheikh Said rebellion.[1]
Historical

Iraq

The following are tribes from the autonomous region of Iraq known as Iraqi Kurdistan:

Republic of Azerbaijan

The following are tribes from the Kurdistan-area now within the Republic of Azerbaijan:

Syria

Iran

The following are Kurdish tribes from various regions of the modern-day Islamic Republic of Iran:

West Azarbaijan Province

Kurdistan Province

Kermanshah province

Ilam province

  • Arkawâzi
  • Badrei (Ali Sherwan)
  • Malek Shahi
  • Khezel
  • Kalhor (Eyvani)
  • Deh Balai
  • Pirani (Abdanan and Pahleh)
  • Naserali (Abdanan)
  • Mamus (Abdanan)
  • Maspi (Abdanan)
  • Zargush (Abdanan)

Luristan province

Mazandaran province

  • Modânlu
  • Khâjevand
  • Abdul Maleki

Gilan province

  • Amârlu
  • Risvand

Former or multi-national provinces

Khorasan province

The following are tribes from Kurdish provinces that either no longer exist or exist across the borders of multiple modern countries, or both:

  • Zaferânlu
  • Shâdlu
  • Topkânlu
  • Sewkânlu
  • Qahramânlu

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Olson 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Uslu 2009, p. 75.
  3. ↑ al-Jabbār & Dawod 2003, p. 181.
  4. 1 2 The Pulse: Daily Review of the Turkish Press. Vedat Uras. 1986. p. 16.
  5. 1 2 . Economist http://www.economist.com/node/17632939. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. 1 2 M. Abdulhalûk Çay (2001). The kurdish file: with all aspects. Tamga Yayıncılık. p. 397.
  7. ↑ "Kurdish people unite against terror: Tribe of 65,000 pledge to stand up against PKK".
  8. ↑ Philip G. Kreyenbroek (2009). Yezidism in Europe: Different Generations Speak about Their Religion. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 56–. ISBN 978-3-447-06060-8.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Kehl-Bodrogi 1997.
  10. ↑ Hari S. Vasudevan (1 January 2004). The Global Politics of the Iraq Crisis and India's Options. Aakar Books. pp. 184–. ISBN 978-81-87879-31-2.
  11. ↑ Strohmeier 2000.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Touraj Atabaki (4 September 2006). Iran and the First World War: Battleground of the Great Powers. I.B.Tauris. pp. 83–. ISBN 978-1-86064-964-6.

Sources

  • Uslu, Emrullah (2009). The Transformation of Kurdish Political Identity in Turkey: Impact of Modernization, Democratization and Globalization. ProQuest. pp. 75–. ISBN 978-1-109-05548-1.
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  • Robert Olson (18 December 2013). The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880–1925. University of Texas Press. pp. 144–. ISBN 978-0-292-76412-5.
  • Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi; Barbara Kellner Heinkele; Anke Otter Beaujean (1997). Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East: Collected Papers Od the International Symposium "Alevism in Turkey and Comparable Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East in the Past and Present" Berlin, 14-17 April 1955. BRILL. pp. 13–. ISBN 90-04-10861-0.
  • Janet Klein (31 May 2011). The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone. Stanford University Press. pp. 211–. ISBN 978-0-8047-7570-0.
  • al-Jabbār, Fāliḥ ʻAbd; Dawod, Hosham (2003). Tribes and power: nationalism and ethnicity in the Middle East. Saqi.
  • http://www.kurdsngo.org/_/rsrc/1468859021696/resources/maps/Kurdish_Tribal_Confederacies_lg.png
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