Halis Öztürk

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Rebels during the Ararat Uprising. From left to right: Sipkanlı Halis Bey, Ihsan Nuri Pascha , Hasenanlı Ferzende Bey

Halis Öztürk ( Kurdish : Xalis Begê Sîpkî, Turkish Sipkanlı Halis Bey , * 1889 in Tutak / Ottoman Empire , † September 24, 1977 ) was a Kurdish tribal leader and Turkish politician.

Life

Halis Öztürk was born in Tutak in the Sanjak Bayazid des Vilayets Erzurum. His father, Abdulmejid Bey, was a leader of the Sipkan tribe and a commander of the Hamidiye .

When the second Ararat uprising broke out in 1927 , Halis Öztürk joined the uprising and played an important role. According to Mehmet Ali Kışlalı , he was a leading rebel who started the uprising. Halis Öztürk was arrested but then fled when he was about to be brought from Erzurum to Trabzon . Later Halis Öztürk took part in negotiations with the Turkish government as a representative of the Republic of Ararat . But the rebels were defeated and he fled across the border into Iran .

He was later able to return to Turkey through an amnesty, where he then became a member of the Democrat Parti . He was elected to the Turkish Parliament three times as a member of the Ağrı Province (1950–1954, 1954–1957 and 1957–1960).

After the military coup of May 27, 1960 , he was arrested and tried in the Yassıada trials . Because of his poor knowledge of Turkish, Halis Öztürk spoke a mixture of Turkish and Kurdish in court. He was charged with violence and non-compliance with the Constitution. In response to this charge, he said: Judge, I swear to God that if I had known it was the Constitution under our feet, I would not have trampled on it.

He was sentenced to 10 years in prison, served in Yassıada and then in Kayseri . His cellmate Abdülmelik Fırat described Halis Öztürk as a "clever and witty man". Another inmate, Samet Ağaoğlu , son of Ahmet Ağaoğlu , later said in his memoir that Halis Öztürk answered every contemptuous question wittily and in his local dialect. He died on September 24, 1977. Öztürk had three wives, 13 daughters and 7 sons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rohat Alakom, Hoybûn örgütü ve Ağrı ayaklanması , Avesta, 1998, ISBN 9757112453 , p. 180. Turkish
  2. ↑ İhsan Nuri, Ağrı Dağı İsyanı , Med Yayıncılık, 1992, p. 28. Turkish
  3. ↑ Mehmet Ali Kışlalı, Güneydoğu: Düşük yoğunluklu çatışma , Ümit Yayıncılık, 1996, ISBN 9789757115083 , p. 128. Turkish
  4. ↑ a b Kâzım Öztürk, Türk Parlamento Tarihi: TBMM-IX. dönem, 1950-1954 : Vol: 7., Türk Parlamento Tarihi Araştırma Grubu, 1999, ISBN 9789757291190 , Turkish
  5. ↑ The Turkish phrase Ayaklar altına almak (meaning: step on something) was taken literally by him.
  6. ↑ Abdülmelik Fırat, Fırat Mahzun Akar , Avesta, 1996, ISBN 9789757112099 , pp. 38–39. Turkish
  7. ↑ Samet Ağaolğlu, Marmara'da Bir Ada , Baha Matbaası, 1972, p. 76. Turkish
personal data
SURNAME Öztürk, Halis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Xalis Begê Sîpkî, Sipkanlı Halis Bey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish tribal leader, rebel and member of the Turkish parliament
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Tutak
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1977