Mikdad Midhat Bedir Khan

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Mikdad Midhat Bedir Khan
Mikdad Midhat (top row, second from right) and other members of the Bedir Khan family in around 1880
NationalityKurdish
OccupationJournalist
Years active1880-1912
Known forPublishing the newspaper Kurdistan

Mikdad Midhat Bedir Khan (1858 – 1915

mutesellim of the Emirate of Botan
.

Bedir Khan was born in

imperial system—an enlightened and educated noblesse oblige that, on the whole, regarded themselves as both loyal Ottomans and proud Kurds."[2]

The first edition of Kurdistan was published in Cairo on April 22, 1898.[3] During its four years of publication, Kurdistan was printed in Egypt, England and Switzerland. The last two issues were published on 14 March 1902 in Geneva.[4]

At the time, it was difficult to publish in

Kurdish "because of the absence of a standard language, or even a dominant dialect."[5] The newspaper was therefore a bilingual mix of the Kurmanji dialect of Botan, and Turkish. Speakers of other dialects had difficulty understanding it.[5]

The newspaper was critical of the

Ahmad Khani was also honoured by Kurdistan.[7]

Stansfield and Sharif, writing in The Kurdish Question Revisited, also note that Kurdistan supported the Young Turk reformers who wanted to oust Sultan Abdul Hamid II and reinstate the constitution: "Kurdistan was also a CUP newspaper. It reported on the activities of the CUP and the Young Turk movement, and in so doing distinguished itself as a forum for opposing the Hamidian regime".[7] Bajalan also notes that "the paper advocated the restoration of the Constitution of 1876. This, it was believed, would serve as a panacea to both the Ottoman Empire’s problems and those of the Kurds."[2]

Following the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, the Bedir Khan family returned to Turkey, but in 1912 went into exile again when they discovered that the CUP intended to repress the Kurdish nationalist movement in the Ottoman Empire. They remained in exile after the founding of the Turkish republic by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1923.

References

  1. ^ Issi, Murat (April 2013). "KÜRT BASINI VE KÜRDİSTANGAZETESİ (1898-1902)". Panteion Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi Ve Tarih Bölümü. IX.
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    ISSN 1353-0194
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  3. ^ "Iraqi Kurdish "Badir Khan" Family in Encyclopedia to carry its name". ekurd.net. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  4. ^ "Jeladet Bedir Xan (1893-1951) – kurdish Academy". Retrieved 2020-04-22.
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    ISBN 978-1-4773-1107-3
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  6. ISBN 978-0-8047-7570-0
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  7. ^
    ISBN 978-0-19-068717-5
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