Sheikh Said

Şêx Seîdê Pîran (bottom right)

Sheikh Said ( Kurdish شێخ سەعیدی پیران Şêx Seîdê Pîran , * 1865 in Hınıs / Vilâyet Erzurum ; † June 29, 1925 in Diyarbakır ) was a Kurdish - Sunni spiritual leader. Under his leadership, the Sheikh Said uprising broke out in 1925 against the young Turkish government around Mustafa Kemal Pascha (from November 24, 1934 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk).

Sheikh Said was the son of Sheikh Mahmut Feyzi and he was the son of Sheikh Ahmet Efendi of Palu and became the hereditary head of the Naqshbandi order, which was extremely powerful in the Kurdish areas . The influence of Sheikh Said was great not only because he was the hereditary head or sheikh of an influential religious order, but also because he was also the leader of the tribes in this area. He was a wealthy man who also supplied cities like Aleppo in Syria with his herds . He had several wives, one of whom was Cibranlı Halit Bey's older sister .

The Sheikh Said uprising resulted on the one hand from the resistance against the new secular Turkish republic, so it was religiously motivated. On the other hand, the Kurdish national element also played a major role in the uprising. The uprising was prepared, among others, by the Kurdish organization Azadi , which was nationalist in character.

After the uprising was put down by Turkish troops , Sheikh Said was caught fleeing to Persia at the end of April. He and 47 other comrades-in-arms were publicly hanged on June 29, 1925 . To this day, Sheikh Said is held in high regard by almost all Kurds . His grandson Abdülmelik Fırat was party chairman of the Kurdish HAKPAR party until his death on September 28, 2009 and advocated autonomy for the Kurds in Turkey .

literature

Martin van Bruinessen : Agha, Scheich und Staat , Berlin 1989, p. 379ff.
Yaşar Kalafat: Şark meselesi ışıgında Şeyh Sait olayı, karakteri, dönemindeki iç ve dış olaylar . In: Boğaziçi ilmî araştırmalar serisi; 11 . Boğaziçi Yayınları, Ankara 1992, ISBN 975-451-083-0 , p. 407 .

Web links

Commons : Sheikh Said - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Robert W. Olson, William F. Tucker: The Sheikh Said Rebellion (1925): Kurdish uprisings. In: kurdmania.org. December 28, 2011, archived from the original on December 21, 2017 .; accessed on July 12, 2019

Individual evidence

^ Uğur Üngör : The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913–1950 , Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-164076-6 , p. 111: “Member of a Zaza family originally from Piran and revered sheikh of the Naqshbandi Sufi order ”.

personal data
SURNAME	Said, sheikh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pîran, Şêx Seîdê (Kurdish); Said, Seyh (Zazaese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Kurdish clergyman and leader
DATE OF BIRTH	1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hınıs
DATE OF DEATH	June 29, 1925
Place of death	Diyarbakır

[1] Uğur Üngör : The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913–1950 , Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-164076-6 , p. 111: “Member of a Zaza family originally from Piran and revered sheikh of the Naqshbandi Sufi order ”.