Kürt Teavün ve Terakki Cemiyeti

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The Kürt Teavün ve Terakki Cemiyeti ( Turkish for Kurdish Committee for Mutual Aid and Progress , Kurdish : Cemiyeta Teawun û Teraqiya Kurd ) was the first explicitly Kurdish political organization in the Ottoman Empire .

It was founded on September 19, 1908 in Istanbul by high-ranking figures of Kurdish society, including Seyyit Abdülkadir , Emin Ali Bedirxan , Mehmet Şükrü Sekban and Ismail Paschazade Müsir Ahmet Pascha . The political orientation was conservative and pro-Ottoman, the organization did not pursue any Kurdish nationalist goals, but wanted "unity and harmony among the warring tribes in Kurdistan[establish] "and bring the Kurdish population closer to the constitutional and ruling system of the Ottoman Empire. Furthermore, she devoted herself to promoting education among the Kurds, for example by founding a Kurdish school, and gave her a magazine called Kürt Teavün ve Terakki Gazetesi The first edition appeared on December 5, 1908. The editor in charge was Pîremêrd , and people like Said Nursî , Abdullah Cevdet and Süleyman Nazif wrote in the newspaper .

The image of the group in the historical specialist literature, where it often appears under the false name of Kürdistan Taali ve Terakki Cemiyeti (Committee for the Rise and Progress of Kurdistan), sometimes deviates significantly from the objectives that can be substantiated in the committee's documents. This representation goes back to Sureya Bedirxan , the son of the co-founder Emin Ali Bedirxan, who, in contrast to his father, pursued Kurdish nationalist goals and accordingly also assumed such efforts to be the first Kurdish organization . The Kürt Teavün ve Terakki Cemiyeti represented a decidedly elitist-aristocratic understanding of politics. She saw the population as a kind of flock of sheep that needed the leadership of nobles.

The greatest success of the committee was the establishment of two commissions by the government, which were sent to control the local administration in Eastern Anatolia. In contrast, it did not succeed in gaining a significant following among the Kurdish rural population, and the KTTC's influence on migrant workers in Istanbul was limited.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Behrendt: Nationalism in Kurdistan - prehistory, conditions of origin and first manifestations up to 1925. Deutsches Orient-Institut, Hamburg 1993, p. 268
  2. ↑ Günter Behrendt p. 271
  3. ↑ Günter Behrendt p. 269f.

literature

  • Günter Behrendt: Nationalism in Kurdistan - prehistory, conditions of origin and first manifestations up to 1925 . German Orient Institute, Hamburg 1993.