Serhildan
Serhildan is the name for various Kurdish riots in Turkey since the 1990s .
etymology
Serhildan is made up of the Kurdish words ser , which means "head", and hildan , which means "to raise". Serhildan literally means "raise your head" and has the meaning "elevation" or "revolt". In Zazaki , the popular uprising is known as Serewedaritiş .
history
After the major Kurdish uprisings early to mid-20th century, the koçgiri rebellion , Sheikh Said Rebellion , Ararat rebellion and Dersim massacre occurred in 1990 in the southeastern Anatolian city of Nusaybin , near the border with Syria , the first violent actions by the population against police officers and state institutions. The uprising in Nusaybin is considered to be the beginning of Serhildan, in the course of the following days the unrest initially spread to other cities in the province of Mardin and the neighboring provinces of Batman , Diyarbakır , Siirt , Şanlıurfa and Şırnak , and later to other eastern Anatolian provinces such as Bingöl , Bitlis , Hakkâri , Mus and Van as well as large cities like Ankara , Istanbul , Izmir and Mersin .
Since the unrest in 1990, there have been isolated riots, especially after the deaths of PKK fighters, on March 21 ( Newroz ) of the respective year or on November 27 (the date the PKK was founded ) of the respective year. The riots increased again in late November 2009. The reason was the conditions of Abdullah Öcalan's detention on İmralı . After the Kurdish party DTP was banned on December 11, 2009, the situation worsened. The uprising killed a total of three people. A 23-year-old Kurdish student was killed in Diyarbakır and the other two were killed by a shopkeeper in Bulanık after the insurgents pelted Molotov cocktails at his shop. About 50 people were injured in the riots and over 100 people were arrested.
literature
- İlhan Gülsün: PKK ve şer odakları . Istanbul 1998. ISBN 978-975-7841-40-1 . (Turkish)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The PKK uprisings continue, it has developed into a theater of war , accessed on December 18, 2009. (Turkish)
- ↑ DTP supporters turn the streets of Batman into a theater of war ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 18, 2009. (Turkish)
- ↑ A student died in Diyarbakır after a commotion , accessed on December 18, 2009. (Turkish)
- ↑ a b A student was killed in Diyarbakır , accessed December 18, 2009. (Turkish)
- ↑ Muş is in chaos ... shopkeeper shot the insurgents ... 2 dead , accessed on December 20, 2009. (Turkish)
