Xoybûn

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Xoybûn
French Lebanon
Dissolved1946
IdeologyKurdish nationalism[2]
Secularism[3]
Republicanism[3]
Colors        Red, Gold, White and Green (Flag of Kurdistan)
Party flag
Xoybun Congress in Lebanon in 1927

Xoybûn or Khoyboun (Kurdish: ,Xoybûn خۆیبوون)[4][5] was a Kurdish nationalist political party,[2][3] that is known for leading the Ararat rebellion, commanded by Ihsan Nuri. Many Armenians joined the movement as well,[6][7] the party was active in all parts of Kurdistan[6] until it was dissolved in 1946.[8]

Establishment

On the 5 October 1927, in

Celadet Bedir Khan, Memduh Selim, Mehdi Saïd (the brother of Sheikh Said) and Haco Agha amongst others.[10] In the same month the Xoybûn achieved a treaty with the Armenian Revolution Federation (ARF/Dashnaktsutyun).[11] The treaty was negotiated in Beirut on the 29 October by Vahan Papazian for the ARF and by Celadet Bedir Khan, Mehmet Şükru Sekban, Ali Riza (the son of Sheik Said and others on the side of the Xoybun.[12] The Xoybûn had two separate sections. And armed section and a political one. The armed wing was led by Ihsan Nuri, an Ottoman soldier. The political wing was based in Damascus, represented in several western countries and mostly by members of the Bedirxan family.[11] The Xoybûn presented itself as a progressive but pragmatic organization, which had an independence as a goal wanted to learn from former decisions which led to the failure of the Sheikh Said rebellion.[13]

Celadet Alî Bedirxan who was elected as its president[14] as well as Süleymniyeli Kerim Rüstem Bey, Memduh Selim, Mehmet Şükrü Sekban, Haco Agha, Ramanlı Emin, Ali Rıza, Bozan bey Shahin and Mustafa bey Şahin were elected as members of the first central committee of Xoybûn.[15] The Xoybûn can be viewed as a counterweight to the SAK led by Seyyit Abdul Kadir,[10] who favored autonomy for the Kurds instead of independence.[16] Turkey severely opposed the activities for Kurdish independence which amounted to the closure of Xoybuns activities in Aleppo in 1928.[17]

Ararat rebellion

Under the leadership of Celadet Alî Bedirxan, Kamuran Alî Bedirxan, Ekrem Cemilpaşa, Memdûh Selîm and others, Xoybûn decided to promote Ihsan Nuri, a former officer in the Ottoman and Turkish armies, to general (pasha) and sent him to Erzurum with 20 comrades. They published a newspaper named Agirî. The Republic of Ararat declared its independence on 8 October 1927.

The central committee of Xoybûn appointed

Great Powers and the League of Nations,[20] but under pressure from Turkey the British Empire and France restricted the activities of those involved in the Xoybûn.[21] Turkey accused Kurdish and Armenian rebels several times to have invaded Turkey with the aim to assassinate Mustafa Kemal.[22] The Ararat rebellion
was subsequently put down by Turkish forces in 1931.

References

  1. ^ McDowall 1996, p. 203.
  2. ^ a b McDowall 1996, p. 172.
  3. ^ a b c McMurray 2013, p. 178.
  4. ^ Mihemedê Mele Ehmed (1993). Xoybûn: Civata "Serxwebûn" a Kurdi.
  5. ^ "عومەر شێخمووس: لە یەكەم رۆژەوە پێشنیازم بۆ بەرپرسانی رۆژئاوا كرد لەگەڵ سووریا رێكبكەون" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  6. ^ a b Tejel 2008, p. 18.
  7. ^ Fuccaro 1994, p. 233.
  8. ^ Bakis & Karakoç 2015, p. 190-191.
  9. ^ Gorgas 2007, pp. 118–119.
  10. ^ a b Gorgas 2007, p. 119.
  11. ^ a b Bozarslan 2008, p. 340.
  12. ^ Gorgas 2007, p. 222.
  13. ^ Schmidinger 2017, p. 62.
  14. ^ Özoğlu 2004, p. 101.
  15. ^ Schmidinger 2017, p. 61.
  16. ^ Özoğlu 2004, p. 98.
  17. ^ Bein 2017, p. 50.
  18. ISBN 9789004108615, p. 13.
  19. ^ Martin van Bruinessen, "Zaza, Alevi and Dersimi as Deliberately Embraced Ethnic Identities" in '"Aslını İnkar Eden Haramzadedir!" The Debate on the Ethnic Identity of The Kurdish Alevis', p. 14.
  20. Fırat Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, Cilt: 14, Sayı: 2, s. 385. Archived September 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
    (in Turkish)
  21. ^ Allsopp 2014, p. 55.
  22. ^ Bein 2017, p. 51.

Sources

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