Koçgiri rebellion

The Koçgiri Rebellion or Koçkiri Rebellion was an Alevi Kurdish uprising,[11] in the overwhelmingly militant Koçgiri region of Turkish Kurdistan. While waged by the Kızılbaş tribe, it was also supported by the Society for the Rise of Kurdistan (SAK) .

Koçgiri Rebellion
Part of Kurdish rebellions in Turkey and the Turkish War of Independence

Koçgiri rebels
Date6 March 1921 - 17 June 1921[1]
Location
Sivas, Tunceli, Erzincan
Result Decisive Turkish victory. Revolt suppressed.
Belligerents

Grand National Assembly

 Koçgiri Tribe
Society for the Rise of Kurdistan
Ginyan Tribe (changed sides)
Commanders and leaders
Mustafa Kemal Pasha
Nureddin Pasha
Binbaşı Halis Bey (commander of the 6th Cavalry Regiment) †[2][3][4][5]
Topal Osman		 Alişan Bey [6]
Alişer
Nuri Dersimi
Paso
Misto
Strength

Government claim:
3,161 men[7][8]
1,350 military animal[8]
2,750 rifles, 3 light and 18 heavy machine guns[8]

Rebel claim:
6,000 cavalrymen
25,000 infantrymen

Unknown nr of militia and Gendarmerie

Government claim:
3,000 rebels (mostly cavalry)[8]
2,500 rifles[8]

Rebel claim:

6,000 rebels
Casualties and losses
Unknown 500 rebels killed[8]
32 rebel leaders and 500 rebels captured[6]

References
  1. Hülya Küçük, The Role of the Bektashis in Turkey's National Struggle, BRILL, 2002, ISBN 9004124438, page 217.
  2. Ercan Yavuz, "Turkey starts to question early period of republic", Today's Zaman, November 22, 2009.
  3. Mustfa Balcıoğlu, Belgelerle Millî Mücadele sırasında Anadoluda ayaklanmalar ve Merkez ordusu, 1991, p. 128. (in Turkish)
  4. Nurettin Gülmez, T.B.M.M. zabıtalarından Doğu ve Güney Doğu meselesi, Hamle Yayın-Dağıtım, 1992, p. 197. (in Turkish)
  6. Türk İstiklal Harbi, Edition VI, İstiklal Harbinde Ayaklanmalar, T. C. Genelkurmay Harp Tarihi Başkanlığı Resmî Yayınları, 1974, page 281
  7. Andrew Mango, Atatürk, John Murray, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7195-6592-2, p. 330.
  8. Hüseyin Rahmi Apak, Türk İstiklâl Harbi – İç ayaklanmalar: 1919-1921, 1964, C.VI, Genelkurmay Basımevi, pages 163-165
  9. Martin van Bruinessen, "Zaza, Alevi and Dersimi as Deliberately Embraced Ethnic Identities" in '"Aslını İnkar Eden Haramzadedir!" The Debate on the Ethnic Identity of The Kurdish Alevis' in Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Anke Otter-Beaujean, Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East: Collected Papers of the International Symposium "Alevism in Turkey and Comparable Sycretistic Religious Communities in the Near East in the Past and Present" Berlin, 14-17 April 1995, BRILL, 1997, ISBN 9789004108615, p. 13.
  10. Martin van Bruinessen, "Zaza, Alevi and Dersimi as Deliberately Embraced Ethnic Identities" in '"Aslını İnkar Eden Haramzadedir!" The Debate on the Ethnic Identity of The Kurdish Alevis', p. 14.
  11. "Kocgiri Kurdish Uprising". Kurdishness in the Shadows. 2009-12-06. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  12. Özoĝlu, Hakan (2004-02-12). Kurdish Notables and the Ottoman State: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries. SUNY Press. pp. 88–91. ISBN 978-0-7914-5993-5.CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  13. Olson, Robert W. (1989). The emergence of Kurdish nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880-1925. University of Texas Press. pp. 28–29. ISBN 978-0-292-77619-7.
  14. Meiselas, Susan (1997). Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History. New York: Random House. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-226-51928-9.
  15. Robert Olson, (1989) p. 30
  16. Robert Olson, (1989) p. 31
  17. Robert Olson, (1989) p. 32
  18. Ergün Aybars, İstiklâl Mahkemeleri, Bilgi Yayınevi, 1975, p. 34. (in Turkish)
  19. Halim Demir, Milli Mücadele: Kuvayı Milliye : İttihatçılar ve Muhalifler, Ozan Yayıncılık, 2008, p. 176.
  20. Hans-Lukas Kieser, Iskalanmış barış: Doğu Vilayetleri'nde misyonerlik, etnik kimlik ve devlet 1839-1938, İletişim Yayınları, 2005, ISBN 978-975-05-0300-9, p. 570. (in Turkish) (original: Der verpasste Friede: Mission, Ethnie und Staat in den Ostprovinzen der Türkei 1839-1938, Chronos, 2000, ISBN 3-905313-49-9) (in German)
  21. Martin van Bruinessen, Mullas, Sufis and Heretics: The Role of Religion in Kurdish Society: Collected Articles, ISIS Press, 2000, ISBN 978-975-428-162-0, p. 183.
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