Reşvan

The Reşvan, Reşwan or Rişvan tribe is a Kurdish tribe, native to the Adıyaman, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş and Malatya areas.[1] Notably they reside Kahta district of Adıyaman Province, the northern part of Konya Province and southern part of Ankara Province.[2][3] Some Reşvan Kurds live in Sivas and Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) as well.[4]

History

Experts suggest that the name Reşvan is a compound of reş (black) and the Kurdish plural form -ân.[4] The name of the tribe was seen in the defter (tahrir register) back in 1519, when Yavuz Sultan Selim conquered Malatya and Kahta. The tribe was also mentioned in 1524 and 1536, although its numbers were not recorded. The tribe was like all other Kurdish tribes nomadic before the Ottoman Empire managed to sedentary them, as part of the Tanzimat. The first attempt to sedentarise the tribe took place in 1830 and the process continued through the Republican era (about 1923). During the sedentarisation the Reşvan tribe was one of the biggest and most influential Kurdish tribes.[4]

In the 1800s, some Kurds from the tribe moved to/were deported to Central Anatolia, where they reside many villages around Cihanbeyli, Haymana, Boztepe and Kulu today.[5][6][7][8] A document from 1859 shows that about 500 househoulds of the tribe lived in Haymana, Ankara, being sedentarised in 43 villages.[4]

During the 1890s, the leader of the tribe Yakup Ragıp from Besni protected Armenians from Ottoman massacres.[9]

Politics and elections

The majority of Reşvan Kurds are sunni Muslims[10] and tend to be conservative. The tribe mainly voted for the conservative AKP[1] until 2014, where the well known Reşvan Kurdish politician Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat, resigned from AKP and decided to run for the Kurdish party Peoples' Democratic Party in the local election in 2015.[11][12] Later in 2015, the leaders of the tribe decided to vote for HDP for the general election in June 2015.[13]

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Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 "Aşiret oyları cepte değil". Aksiyon. 1 March 2004. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Rişvan Aşireti’nden Vali Ramazan Sodan’a Ziyaret" (in Turkish). 9 June 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "De midtanatolske kurdere - en ufortalt historie" (in Danish). Jiyan.dk. 16 August 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Dede, Suat (December 2011). "From nomadism to sedentary life in Central Anatolia: The case of the Risvan tribe (1830 - 1932)" (PDF): 120. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Cihanbeyli - Index Anatolicus" (in Turkish). Index Anatolicus. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Haymana - Index Anatolicus" (in Turkish). Index Anatolicus. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Boztepe - Index Anatolicus" (in Turkish). Index Anatolicus. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Kulu - Index Anatolicus" (in Turkish). Index Anatolicus. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  9. ↑ Şemsa Özar, Nesrin Uçarlar, Osman Aytar (December 2013). From past to present a paramilitary organization in Turkey (PDF). p. 26. ISBN 978-6055458195. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  10. ↑ "Reswan-stammen fra Konya" (in Danish). Jiyan.dk. 17 August 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Failure of pro-Kurdish HDP to enter Parliament could spell trouble". Today's Zaman. 28 March 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  12. ↑ "Pro-Kurdish leaders to run in elections despite HDP’s two-term limit". 26 February 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  13. ↑ "HDP aşiretleri nasıl ikna etti?" (in Turkish). Radikal. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
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