Confederation of Kurdish Alevi tribes
Koçgiri (Kurdish : Eşireta Qoçgirî ; Turkish : Koçgiri aşireti ) is a collection or confederation of Kurdish Alevi tribes,[ 1] of mainly from Sivas Province (and also Erzincan Province ), in Turkey . They are speakers of a dialect of Kurmanji .
Etymology
The origin of the name Koçgiri is disputed, there are two main opposing points of view:
Qoçgirî may originally mean «Great migration» in the Kurdish language, qoç (migration) being itself a loanword from a Turkic language,
History
Ottoman tax records in the 1360-1370's mention the name of Koçgiri, indicating that a so named region or tribe paid their taxes to the Ottomans.[ 2]
They are known to have initiated the Koçgiri rebellion that occurred in March 1921, during the Turkish War of Independence . About 5,000 rebels, including Sunni tribes having joined the uprising later, fought against the Grand National Assembly . They were defeated on 17 June.
References
Sources
Vital, Cuinet (1891–1894). La Turquie d'Asie, géographie administrative : statistique, descriptive et raisonnée de chaque province de l'Asie Mineure (in French). Paris. pp. 619–620. {{cite book }}
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Güneş, Ergin (2014). Boztuğ, Onursal (ed.). "Koçgiri İsyanı Ekseninde Dersim Direnişi" (in Turkish). Tunceli University: 244.