Bedr Khan Beg
Badr Khan Beg (1803 in Cizre – 1868), was the last Kurdish emir and mutesellim of the Bohtan Emirate.
He began to lose his power due to the centralist policies of the Ottoman Empire, which culminated in the Tanzimat Edict of 1839 and its application the following year.
After allying himself with Nurallah of Hakkari and Ismael Pasha of Amadiya, he attacked the Assyrians of Hakkari massacring nearly 10,000 of them in the 1840s. Pressure from the European powers led the Ottomans into invading his territories and deporting him to Crete in 1850.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Gaunt, D; Beṯ-Şawoce, J (2006), Massacres, resistance, protectors: Muslim-Christian relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I, Gorgias Press LLC, p. 32, ISBN 978-1-59333-301-0
- 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