Yusuf Ziya Bey

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Yusuf Ziya Bey

Yusuf Ziya Bey (* 1882 in Bitlis ; † April 14, 1925 there ) was a member of the first Turkish parliament and a Kurdish politician.

He was born as the son of Koçzade Hacı Ömer Suat Ağas in Bitlis. When he graduated from Sultani, a kind of high school, in Bitlis, he started doing business. For a while he worked as a clerk in the teaching administration and then began his political career in the Kürdistan Teali Cemiyeti .

On August 16, 1920, he won the election for the first Grand National Assembly as a member of Parliament from Bitlis. On October 25, 1920 he became a member of the Independence Court ( İstiklal Mahkemesi ) in Kastamonu .

After founding the Society for the Defense of Rights (Müdafaa-i Hukuk Cemiyeti), he took his place in the second group , which was a faction against Ataturk . This group spoke out against the abolition of the sultanate in parliament. In the background of the talks on the Lausanne Treaty, Yusuf Ziya Bey spoke in favor of the Vilayet Mosul remaining part of Turkey ( Mosul question ).

After the end of his parliamentary term, he returned to Bitlis. But he was suspected of inciting the Nestorian uprising of 1924 and of being a leading member of the Kurdish organization Azadî .

During the Beytüşşebap uprising, soldiers deserted, including his brother Lieutenant Ali Rıza Bey. This resulted in the arrest of Yusuf Ziya Bey on October 10th. He was tried by the court martial in Bitlis under the leadership of Colonel Ferit Bey.

Sentenced under the Law of Treason of the Nation (Hıyanet-i Vataniye Kanunu), he and his brother, Lieutenant Ali Rıza Bey, were found in Bitlis on April 14, 1925 at 5:30 a.m. the day before the Sheikh Said Uprising was put down. his son-in-law Faik Bey, Cibranlı Halit Bey and Molla Abdurrahman were executed by firing squad.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At a parliamentary session on March 6, 1923 he said: I am a Kurd. But I am one of the Kurds who wish Turkey's rise, Turkey's honor and Turkey's progress. (Applause) The reason is my language, which gives me honor and in which I can read and write. But this is not that of my Kurdish people, but that of the Turks. That's why I want the Turks to rise. I want the Turks to win honor. (Turkish Original: Ben Kürdüm. Fakat Türkiye'nin tealisini, Türkiye'nin şerefini Türkiye'nin terakkisini temenni eden Kürtlerindenim. (Alıkışlar) Esbabı ise lisanım, bana şeref veren lisanım okur. Bunun için Türklerin tealisini isterim. Türklerin şereflenmesini isterim. ) ( Türk Parlamento Tarihi, Millî Mücadele ve TBMM I. Dönem 1919–1923 , Volume 2, p. 787)
  2. ↑ a b c Türk Parlamento Tarihi, Millî Mücadele ve TBMM I. Dönem 1919–1923 , Volume 3, p. 180.
  3. ↑ Mehmet Nuri Dersimi : Dersim Tarihi , Eylem Yayınevi, İstanbul, p. 153
  4. ↑ But according to Uğur Mumcu , Kürt - İslam Ayaklanması 1919-1925 , Tekin Yayınları, İstanbul, 1991, p. 102 it was April 15, 1925.

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  • Türk Parlamento Tarihi Millî Mücadele ve TBMMIDönem 1919–1923 , II. Cilt (History of the Turkish Parliament, National Resistance and the First Period of the TBMM 1919–1923. Volume 2), Publisher: TBMM Basımevi Müdürlüğü, Ankara
  • Türk Parlamento tarihi Araştırma Grubu, Türk Parlamento Tarihi, Millî Mücadele ve TBMM I. Dönem 1919–1923, III. Cilt: I. Dönem Milletvekillerin Özgeçmişleri (History of the Turkish Parliament, National Resistance and the First Period of the TBMM 1919–1923. Volume 3: Biographies of Members of the First Legislature). Published by TBMM Basımevi Müdürlüğü, Ankara
  • TBMM Albümü: 1. Cilt - 1920–1950 , information on Yusuf Ziya Bey on page 42 (Turkish)

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personal data
SURNAME Yusuf Ziya Bey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish and Turkish politicians
DATE OF BIRTH 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitlis
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1925
Place of death Bitlis