Kadri Cemilpasha

Kadri Cemilpascha, (back left), with Mükslü Hamza, Ekrem Cemilpascha, Haco Agha (front)

Kadri Cemilpascha or Kadri Cemil Pasha (Burc) , Cemilpaschazade Kadri , Zinar Silopi ( Kurdish language : قادری جهمیل پاشا Qedrî Cemîl Pasha or Zinar Silopi * 1891 in Diyarbakir ; † 27. October 1973 in Damascus ) was a Kurdish politician.

He was born in Diyarbakir in 1891 as the son of Fuad Bey, from the noble family of the Cemilpaschazade. After graduating from the high military school in Diyarbakir, he went to Istanbul and completed the Lycée there.

Kurt Talebe Hêvî Cemiyeti

In 1911 he enrolled in the community college for agriculture. During that time he founded the Kurdish student association Kürt Talebe Hêvî Cemiyeti together with his uncle Ömer Cemilpascha and two friends . Later he went to Lausanne for further training and founded a branch of the Hêvî Cemiyeti with his cousin Ekrem Cemilpascha and others.

Because of the First World War and the associated delay in mail, he did not receive any money from his parents, so he had to return to Istanbul. After reporting to his drafting district, he was admitted to the military school for reserve officers of the cavalry. After four months of training, he was assigned to the Ottoman Third Army and fought on the Caucasus Front . The commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division Mürsel Bakü assigned him to the İhtiyatbrigade, which consisted of the tribes of the Hesenan and the Cibran. After this brigade was broken up, he fought in the 23rd Cavalry Regiment. In the Black Sea region he fought against Pontic gangs and then went to the Palestine front. But near Amman he was captured by British forces and was a prisoner of war in a camp in Alexandria for a year and a half .

exile

In the course of the Sheikh Said uprising , he was arrested like others from his family and tried before the Independence Court. The judge was the Kurd Ali Saip Ursavaş from Rewanduz, with whom Kadri Cemilpascha had previously quarreled. Although the court acquitted him, he was exiled to Burdur .

Xoybun

After he returned to Diyarbakir in 1929, he got in touch with the Xoybûn organization and sought asylum in Syria a year later . There he became a member of the Xoybun and later also a member of the Central Committee. At the time, the Xoybun was planning an offensive in Northern Kurdistan and Kadri was to take over the leadership of the group in Dêrik-Mardin, but the French administration gathered the Xoybun leaders from the Kurdish areas and sent them to Damascus. So he couldn't take part in the offensive.

In 1932 he became a member of the Civata Arîkariyê Jibo Belengazên Kurd Li Cizîrê (Aid Association for the Poor Kurds of the Jezira), which was founded in Syria. In 1933 he was released from his Turkish citizenship. In 1937 he and the other family members were deported by the French mandate government to Tadmur prison because he spoke out against the French wanting to play off the Syrian Christians and Kurds against the Arabs. Between 1934 and 1939 he was the political representative of the Xoybun. In 1937 he was in charge of the Civata Azadî û Yekîtiya Kurdan (Association for Independence and Unity of the Kurds) founded by the Xoybun .

Mahabad

After the founding of the Republic of Mahabad he was sent to Mahabad as a representative of the Hîzba Demokrata Kurdî ya Suriyê (The Democratic Kurdish Party of Syria). He reached Iran via Sulaimaniyya , where he met the Kurd Mustafa Hoşnav, a former officer in the Iraqi army, near Bukan and traveled with him to Mahabad. There he joined the Democratic Party of Kurdistan and Iran and, on the orders of Qazi Mohammed, went to Tabriz , where he handed over a letter to the Soviet Consulate General with the demands of the Republic of Mahabad to Stalin . But when he was not given a post within the Mahabad Republic, he left Mahabad after a short time.

He died in Damascus on October 27, 1973 and was buried in the cemetery in the Heyy'ul Ekrad (Rukneddin) district.

He was married to the daughter Cavide Hanım des Kasım Bey Cemilpaşazade. The couple were childless.

Works

• Zınar Silopi, Doza Kürdistan , Stewr, Beirut, 1969
• Kadri Cemil Paşa (Ed .: Mehmet Bayrak), Doza Kurdistan: Kürt Milletinin 60 Yıllık Esaretten Kurtuluş Savaşı Hatıraları , 2nd edition, Öz-Ge Verlag, Ankara, 1991

literature

• Mehmet Kemal Işık (Torî), 'Kadri Cemil Paşa (Zinar Silopî)', Ünlü Kürt Bilgin ve Birinci Kuşak Aydınlar , Sorun Yayınları, İstanbul, October 2000, ISBN 975-431-111-0 , pp. 157-159.
• Malmîsanij , Kürt Talabe-Hêvî Cemiyeti (1912-1922): İlk Legal Kürt Öğrenci Derneği , Avesta, İstanbul, 2002, ISBN 975-8637-24-X .
• Malmîsanij, Diyarberkirli Cemilpaşazadeler ve Kürt Milliyetçiliği , Avesta, İstanbul, 2004, ISBN 975-8637-79-7 , pp. 345-370.