Koçgiri rebellion: Difference between revisions

The '''Koçgiri rebellion''' ({{Lang-ku|Serhildana Qoçgiriyê}}; {{Lang-tr|Koçgiri İsyanı}}) was a [[Kurds|Kurdish]] uprising, that began in the overwhelmingly militant [[Koçgiri Tribe|Koçgiri]] region in present-day eastern [[Sivas Province]] in February 1921. The rebellion was initially [[Alevism|Alevi]], but it succeeded in gathering support from nearby [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] tribes.<ref name="Ergin" >{{cite journal|last=Güneş|first=Ergin|title=Koçgiri İsyanı Ekseninde Dersim Direnişi|pages=244|year=2014|editor-last=Boztuğ|editor-first=Onursal|publisher=[[Tunceli University]]|language=tr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Olson|first=Robert W.|title=The emergence of Kurdish nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880-1925|date=1989|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-77619-7|pages=35}}</ref> The tribetribal leaders had a close relationsrelationship towith the [[Society for the Rise of Kurdistan]] (SAK).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Olson|first=Robert W.|title=The emergence of Kurdish nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880-1925|date=1989|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=978-0-292-77619-7|pages=28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Olson|first1=Robert|last2=Rumbold|first2=Horace|date=1989|title=The Koçgiri Kurdish rebellion in 1921 and the draft law for a proposed autonomy of Kurdistan|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25817079|journal=Oriente Moderno|volume=8 (69)|issue=1/6|pages=41|doi=10.1163/22138617-0690106006|jstor=25817079|issn=0030-5472|via=[[JSTOR]]}}</ref> The rebellion was defeated in June 1921.