Sheikh Said

The Sheikh Said uprising and the Azadi (freedom) Society represented the greatest challenge faced by the young Turkish republic after the abolition of the Caliphate in 1924 and the severing of the last remaining supranational link between the Kurds and the Turks. This severing of the link automatically marginalized the Kurds from the nascent republican […]

In February 1925, a two-month-long yet critically decisive – in its total effects – uprising led by Sheikh Said in Northern Kurdistan put to a severe test the Kemalist regime in Ankara which, emboldened by victories attained elsewhere, quenched the flames of defiance heavy handedly inflicting grievous harm on the Kurdish population everywhere. The first […]