Zeybek (title)
The name Zeybek is a historical Turkish title.
Initially, the armed security forces of the Seljuk State in Western Anatolia were known as Zeybek . The rebels who moved into the mountains after the Celali uprising later referred to themselves as Zeybek. They formed gangs whose leaders were called Efe . The Zeybek lived in the western Anatolian mountains at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, they were directed against the Ottoman state, were tolerated by the population and received positively. A Zeybek had to take an oath that he would always keep his word and be a good shooter, healthy, quick, brave and brave.
In the Turkish War of Liberation , the Zeybek fought in the ranks of the Turkish Kuvayı Milliye . There are many collections of legends about her numerous exploits. After the founding of the Republic of Turkey , the Zeybek disbanded. Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe is one of the most famous Zeybeks .
Origin of the name Zeybek
There are various theses about the origin of the name Zeybek :
- MR Gazimihal derives the name from a place in Central Asia.
- HH Bayındır traces him back to sağbek (smart, trustworthy man) .
- S. Türkoğlu suggests a derivation from su / sü bek (officer) or from zeyl-i beğ (assistant to a beg ) .
Zeybeks in movies
- Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe (1950) with Bülent Ufuk
- Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe'nin definesi (1952) with Bülent Ufuk
- Çakırcalı Mehmet Efe (1969) with Kartal Tibet
literature
- Gary Leiser: Zeybek. In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Vol. 11, Brill, Leiden, pp. 493-494, online version (restricted access).