Süreyya Bedirxan

Süreyya Bedirxan ( Kurdish : Sureya Bedirxan , writers' names Azizi Ahmet and Dr. Bletch Chirguh / Dr. Blêç Şêrko ; * 1883 in Maqtal , Syria / Ottoman Empire ; † 1938 ) was a member of the well-known and influential Kurdish aristocratic Bedirxan family . His grandfather Bedirxan Beg was the last ruler of the Ottoman autonomous principality of Botan .

Süreyya was born in 1883 as the son of Emin Ali Bedirxan and his first Circassian wife in Maqtal in what is now Syria. Süreyya completed his diploma as an agricultural engineer in Istanbul . In 1906 he and his family had to go into exile in Isparta and Acre because of a suspected involvement in the murder of the city prefect Rıdvan Pasha . After the Young Turkish Revolution , the beginning of the Second Ottoman constitutional period in 1908 and the disempowerment of Sultan Abdülhamid II , the family was allowed to return to Istanbul. Here he began to publish the Turkish-Kurdish newspaper Kurdistan . His uncle Mikdad Midhat Bedirxan had published the newspaper of the same name Kurdistan between 1898 and 1902 . In 1909 the newspaper was banned and he went to prison. He was sentenced to death for preparing a military revolt against the Young Turkish government.

In 1910 he was pardoned and sent into exile. In 1912 he nevertheless returned to Istanbul and founded a Kurdish secret committee. Again he was arrested and sentenced to death. In 1913 he escaped from prison and finally left the Ottoman Empire. After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Süreyya published his newspaper Kurdistan under the name Azizi Ahmet in Cairo , where he had also founded the Committee for the Independence of Kurdistan . Later he was to take part in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 , where he unsuccessfully campaigned for a Kurdish state / Kurdish administration. Before that, he was captured by the British during the war. In October 1927 he joined the new organization Xoybûn in Beirut . 1929 returned to his native country and worked there on a political level. When the third Ararat uprising broke out in Turkey in 1930 , this time supported by the Xoybûn, it was banished to Paris by the French mandate government in Syria . Süreyya Bedirxan died in 1938.

According to Basil Nikitin, he is considered the first politician to pursue Kurdish politics with a party program and modern political arguments both orally and in writing.

Works

• Dr. Bletch Chirguh: La question kurde / Ses origines et ses causes , Cairo 1930
• Süreyya Bedirxan: Kürt Davası ve Hoybun (Turkish edition 1994 in Istanbul)

source

• The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition , article Badrkhani by Basil Nikitin
• 'Kürt Sorunu Kökeni ve Nedenleri' 80 yıl sonra Türkçe yayımlandı , article on www.gundem-online.net (Turkish)