Kurdish republic of AGRI

Reşo (Reşokê Silo)


The Kurdish hero Reşo (Reşokê Silo) was killed by a shot in his mouth and behead in his wife's village in the winter of 1931. In the same period the killed the Turkish army residents Esirler, mıhemedê xalıt, emerê Xalite,  keremm Fethiye Silo, the  zilan village was circulated. Silo Reşo was also fighters in the Sheikh Said Piran revolution in Western Anatolia in 1925.

Sheikh Said was executed in 29 July 1925 by the Turkish ataturk goverment and Silo Reşo escaped to xile in 1926 en he was returns to North Kurdistan mountain with his friends Qulîxan Bakr Pain & Seyitxane Kerr. Seyit was  one of the important pillars of revaluation of Sheikh Said Piran, the Sheikh Said death & Zilan massacre in 1928 effects both Seyitxan & Alican. Both the aggression of Turkish government against Sheikh Said Piran revolution effects both and  reactions accumulation in 1930 as response in in the village a major revolt began.

Seyit Xané Ker

Seyitxane Kerr was born in the village Qıcıx in Mus Provence connected to the center of the Seyitx seyide Hasek, was the tribal arm is known as Seydou Usıvé Mala.  His brother joined the rebellion with Tevfik. He had hearing problems (deafness) known as Seyit Xané Ker (deaf Seyitxan).

Alican tribes a brother Abdul Hamid and Feyzullah Beraza be recognized as belonging to the Mala Bişar. Originally from the village in the district of Erzurum Hespreş.  The in the village 45 men collects in the landscape of Ali Campbell brothers Abdul Hamid and Fezullah to join the rest to help the rebels Zeylan Alican to fight the Turks. The men were merged with Seyit xan fighters in that area  first their power were  75 men  were  later more than a hundred.

The Turkish gendarmes were sent to the region for four months with very tough conflict, many of Turkish gendarme and Kurdish fighters lost their lives in that conflict. The weakening of fight caused the  Alican to break  and  end  the fourth month conflict considering  the surrender and reported it to the opposite side. However, realization of revolution purpose end in 1931, he was shot from behindin his back. Some have said the killed by gendarmes, and some said accidentally by one of his owen men. The Haskovo town is in district Muş the shooting location (the vartınis village) there he is buried. Feyzullah brothers, Abdul Hamid was getting the financing from feqi sıléman near Erzurum Karayazı a few days later near that place he was slain and decapitated the authorities have exhibited him to the Kurdish population there.

Alican and after the killing of his brother's side through Seyit Xan remaining men continued to clash. Seyitx wanted to finish the job that he had started. Kağızman, Karaköse and Doğubeyazit is returned to the garrison of the Cavalry Regiment, 17th Mobile Gendarmerie regiment had been dispatched to the region under the command of Colonel Rifat Bey.

Seyit Xan returns to the mountains swear by Quran to continue the conflict en he organized the attack to the troops and the gendarmerie, the majority of them lost their life against the gendarmerie regiment and some of them have managed to escape to the mountains again,

Especially those in command of Sayyid Rasul succeeded in leading them in the direction of Beyazit. In the same siege şemıkanl Temur Çelxo conflict he managed with his brother to Iran. However, the ongoing conflict in one of these raids that Seyitxan ambushed by the police in 1932 along with his men lost their lives.

Aziza's the Bedirxan pasha's grandson Kadri Cemil Pasha memoirs  about Seyitxan and especially Mus mountains and Manzikert in the vicinity and the large Turkish gendarmerie intensive attacks against North Kurdistan. Seyitxan has inflicted Turkish gendarmerie lots of damage.

The Zilan Massacre (Geliyê Zîlan)

Wene (Van)  in North Kurdistan this photo was taking 1930 after it declared independent on their own lands Katlimami Kurds (Kurdish republic of AGRI). The Zilan Massacre refers to the massacre of thousands of Kurdish residents in the Zilan Valley of North Kurdistan by 12/13 July 1930, during the Ararat rebellion, in which 800–1500 armed men participated.
 
The Zilan Massacre took place in the Zilan or Zeylan valley in Kurdish (Geliyê Zîlan), located to the north of the town of Erciş in Van Province. The massacre took place in July 1930, before the third Ararat Operation in September 7–14, 1930, which was a military operation of the Turkish IX Corpsunder the command of Ferik (Lieutenant General) Salih (Omurtak) against Mount Ararat. The number of people killed in the massacre varies according to different sources. According to the daily newspaper Cumhuriyet (July 16, 1930), about 15,000 people died. The account of Hesen Hîşyar Serdî (1907 – September 14, 1985), a writer and participant in the Ararat rebellion, states that 47,000 villagers from 18 villages of Ademan, Sipkan, Zilan and Hesenan tribes were killed. Armenian researcher Garo Sasunistates that 5,000 women, children and the elderly were massacred. Finally, according toBerliner Tageblatt, the Turks in the area of Zilan destroyed 220 villages and massacred 4,500 women and the elderly. Today Ozbek from Asia in the Kurdish villages placed.