- Bedirhan Bey
Bedirhan Bey was the last
emir and mutesellim of Cizre BohtanEmirate . Also know as Badr Khan Beg.He began to lose his power due to the centralist policies of the
Ottoman Empire , which culminated in theTanzimat Edict of 1839 and its application the following year.When the Ottomans decided to make changes in the boundaries of
Diyarbakır province in 1842 and 1843 within the application of the Tanzimat Edict, Bedirhan Bey did not accept the changes and the state soon removed him from Cizre and deported him toCrete .Sources
* Mehmet Alagöz, "Old Habits Die Hard, A Reaction to the Application of Tanzimat Edict: Bedirhan Bey's Revolt", MA Thesis, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2003
*Martin van Bruinessen, "Agha, shaikh, and state : the social and political structures of Kurdistan"
*Nazmi Sevgen, "Doğu ve Güneydoğu Anadolu'da Türk beylikleri: Osmanlı belgeleri ile Kürt Türkleri tarihi"
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