Kadri Cemilpaşa’nın Kürt İsyanlarındaki Rolü
Qadri Cemilpasha’s Role In Kurdish Rebellions

Summary/Abstract: Families holding economic and social power in Diyarbakir have been the decisive actors of regional politics until today. The Cemilpasha family, which has been inhabited in Diyarbakir for the last few centuries, has gained a solid position in the center of political activities in the region, especially recently and has sometimes come into conflict with other well-established families in a mental sense. Although the Cemilpasha family as a whole has taken a stance towards abstaining from political activities in general, Qadri Cemilpasha XXth is one of the family members in particular. He was active in Kurdish political life in the first half of the century. Qadri Cemilpasha continued his education life in Istanbul, where he started in Diyarbakir. During his time in Istanbul, he was involved in the management of the Kurdish Student-Hevi Society, the first association founded by students of Kurdish origin. Qadri Cemilpasha, who went to Switzerland after a while to study pedagogy and returned to Istanbul after the start of the First World War, fought on many fronts, serving in the Ottoman army, in which he voluntarily participated and eventually was taken prisoner to the British on the Palestinian front and taken to Egypt. Qadri Cemilpasha, who returned to his homeland after years of captivity in Egypt and entered into relations with many societies that operated in Diyarbakir during the armistice period, was considered related to the Sheikh Said Rebellion and was exiled to Burdur, and on his return to exile, he left Turkey and fled to Syria and spent the rest of his life here. Its main role in the Kurdish insurgency began after the First World War and continued in Syria.

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