Koçgiri (tribe)
Koçgiri (Kurdish: Eşireta Qoçgirî; Turkish: Koçgiri aşireti) is a collection or confederation of Kurdish Alevi tribes,[1] of mainly from Sivas Province (and also Erzincan Province), in Turkey. They are mostly speakers of a dialect of Kurmanji, some of them also speak Zaza.
Etymology
The origin of the name Koçgiri is disputed, there are two main opposing points of view:
- Qoçgirî may originally mean «Great migration» in the Kurdish language, qoç (migration) being itself a loanword from a Turkic language,
History
Ottoman tax records in the 1360-1370's mention the name of Koçgiri, indicating that a so named region or tribe paid their taxes to the Ottomans.[2]
They are known to have initiated the
Sunni tribes having joined the uprising later,[3] fought against the Grand National Assembly
. They were defeated on 17 June.
References
- ISBN 9789004378988.
Further west, we find another important Kurdish Alevi population, the Koçgiri tribal confederation, in and around the Zara district of Sivas.
- ^ KOÇGİRİ OLAYI, https://muhaz.org/ismail-arabaci-kimdir.html?page=50, 16/11/1999
- ^ Güneş 2014, p. 244.
Sources
- Vital, Cuinet (1891–1894). La Turquie d'Asie, géographie administrative : statistique, descriptive et raisonnée de chaque province de l'Asie Mineure (in French). Paris. pp. 619–620.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Güneş, Ergin (2014). Boztuğ, Onursal (ed.). "Koçgiri İsyanı Ekseninde Dersim Direnişi" (in Turkish). Tunceli University: 244.
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