Koçkiri Rebellion

Koçkiri Rebellion

Koçkiri Rebellion was a rebellion of Alevi (Kurdish dominant) uprising, of the 1920, in the overwhelmingly militant Kizilbash Dersim region, while waged by the Kizilbash Koçkiri tribe, was masterminded by members of an organisation known as the " Kürt Taâlî Cemiyeti".

This particular rebellion failed for several reasons, most of which have something to do with its Kizilbash character. To most Kurmanji (a dialect spoken by Kurds) at the time, the uprising appeared to be merely an Alevi uprising - and thus not in their own interests.

In the aftermath of the Koçkiri rebellion there was talk in the new Grand National Assembly of Turkey of some very limited forms of "Autonomous Administration" by the Kurds in a Kurdish region centred on Kurdistan. However, all this disappeared in the Treaty of Lausanne, signed in 1923.

Trivia

The name Kocgiri is believed to have originated from the kurdish word "koc" meaning 'migrate', as the kocgiri tribe is believed to have migrated from the Hozat region of Dersim.


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