Sheikh Said rebellion

Sheikh Said rebellion
	Part of Kurdish rebellions in Turkey
	; Turkish soldiers encircling Palu, Çapakçur (present-day: Bingöl), Genc (present-day: Kaleköy, Solhan), Piran, Hani, Lice, Ergani, Egil and Silvan, Cumhuriyet Newspaper, 30 March 1925.
Date	8 February—March 1927
Location	Elazığ, Bingöl, Diyarbakır, Şanlıurfa, Mardin, Muş areas
Result	Turkish victory Revolt suppressed;
Belligerents
Turkey	Azadî
Commanders and leaders
Mustafa Kemal Pasha; Kâzım Pasha (Third Army); Ali Saip Ursavaş (Third Army); Mürsel Pasha (VII Corps); Naci Pasha (V Corps)	Sheikh Said ; Halid Beg Cibran ; Alişer Ağa; Yusuf Ziya Bey; Ibrahim Heski; Kadri Cemilpasha
Strength
February–March:; 25,000 men (fewer than 12,000 are armed troops; the rest are unarmed logistical troops); April:; 52,000 men (25,000 are armed troops)	15,000 men
Casualties and losses
	Total: 15,000–20,000 killed

The Sheikh Said rebellion (Kurdish: Serhildana Şêx Seîd,^[5] Turkish: Şeyh Said İsyanı) was a Kurdish nationalist rebellion in Turkish Kurdistan in 1925 led by Sheikh Said and with support of the Azadî^[6] against the newly-founded Turkish Republic.^[7] The rebellion was mostly led by Zaza speakers, but also gained support among some of the neighboring Kurmanji-speaking Kurds in the region.^[8]

The religious and nationalist background of the Sheikh Said rebellion has been debated by the scholars.^[9] The rebellion was described as "the first large-scale nationalist rebellion by the Kurds" by Robert W. Olson.^[10]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Olson 1989, p. 107.
^ The Militant Kurds: A Dual Strategy for Freedom, Vera Eccarius-Kelly, page 86, 2010
^ 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' in Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Anke Otter-Beaujean, Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East: Collected Papers of the International Symposium "Alevism in Turkey and Comparable Sycretistic Religious Communities in the Near East in the Past and Present" Berlin, 14-17 April 1995, BRILL, 1997, ISBN 9789004108615, p. 13.
^ 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.
^ Zülküf, Ergün (2015). "Gotara Dijkolonyal û Wêneyê Serdestiya Tirkan Di Kovara Hawarê De" (PDF). Monograf (in Kurdish) (3). Artuklu University: 400–437.
^ Olson 1989, p. 42.
^ Hassan, Mona (10 January 2017). Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-8371-4.
^ Mehmed S. Kaya (15 June 2011). The Zaza Kurds of Turkey: A Middle Eastern Minority in a Globalised Society. I.B.Tauris. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-1-84511-875-4. was led specifically by the Zaza population and received almost full support in the entire Zaza region and some of the neighbouring Kurmanji-dominated regions
^ Özoğlu, Hakan (2009). "Exaggerating and exploiting the Sheikh Said Rebellion of 1925 for political gains". New Perspectives on Turkey. 41: 181–210. doi:10.1017/s0896634600005410. ISSN 0896-6346. S2CID 152152964.
^ Olson 1989, p. 153.

[FOOTNOTEOlson1989107-1] Olson 1989, p. 107.

[2] The Militant Kurds: A Dual Strategy for Freedom, Vera Eccarius-Kelly, page 86, 2010

[3] 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' in Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Anke Otter-Beaujean, Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East: Collected Papers of the International Symposium "Alevism in Turkey and Comparable Sycretistic Religious Communities in the Near East in the Past and Present" Berlin, 14-17 April 1995, BRILL, 1997, ISBN 9789004108615, p. 13.

[4] 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.

[5] Zülküf, Ergün (2015). "Gotara Dijkolonyal û Wêneyê Serdestiya Tirkan Di Kovara Hawarê De" (PDF). Monograf (in Kurdish) (3). Artuklu University: 400–437.

[FOOTNOTEOlson198942-6] Olson 1989, p. 42.

[7] Hassan, Mona (10 January 2017). Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-8371-4.

[Kaya2011-8] Mehmed S. Kaya (15 June 2011). The Zaza Kurds of Turkey: A Middle Eastern Minority in a Globalised Society. I.B.Tauris. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-1-84511-875-4. was led specifically by the Zaza population and received almost full support in the entire Zaza region and some of the neighbouring Kurmanji-dominated regions

[9] Özoğlu, Hakan (2009). "Exaggerating and exploiting the Sheikh Said Rebellion of 1925 for political gains". New Perspectives on Turkey. 41: 181–210. doi:10.1017/s0896634600005410. ISSN 0896-6346. S2CID 152152964.

[FOOTNOTEOlson1989153-10] Olson 1989, p. 153.

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v t e Kurdish rebellions in Turkey
Koçgiri rebellion¹ Beytussebab rebellion Sheikh Said rebellion Ararat rebellion Dersim rebellion² Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency Serhildan
1. Alevi+Kurdish rebellion^[3] 2. Zaza rebellion^[4]