Abdürrezzak Bedir Khan

Abdürrezzak Bedir Khan (1864 in Constantinople – 1918) was an Ottoman diplomat, Kurdish politician and a member of the Bedir Khan family.[1]

Personal life

He was born to Necib Pasha Bedir Khan and Hanife Bedir Khan into a household the Bedir Khan family.[1] He married Henriette Hornik of Austrian origin with whom he had a daughter in 1903 who was to be known as Leyla Bedir Khan.[2]

Education

After he graduated from school, he entered into the Ottoman administration, following his father to the sanjak Aydin, where his father has been appointed as the Governor.[1] After it was not possible for him to pursue his studies in Europe, he accepted an offer to complete his formation as an Ottoman diplomat in the Foreign Ministry of the Ottoman Empire in 1885.[3]

Diplomatic career

In 1889, he was sent to Saint Petersburg in the Russian Empire to work for one year in the Ottoman Consulate as a secretary. As he returned to Constantinople, he asked for another work and was offered an office at the Consulate in Tehran. It was a post he eventually was not able to assume as he was called back to Constantinople. He didn't comply with the demand and left towards the Russian Empire, in which he wanted to settle in Yerevan. Through his diplomatic relations he established during his time at the consulate in Saint Petersburg, he managed to arrive in Tiflis but his plans to live in Yerevan did not prosper due to pressures from the Ottoman Empire. From Tiflis he began a wide journey over Batumi, Kiev and then also the United Kingdom, before his father Necib Bedir Khan was able to compel him to return to Constantinople in 1894.[4] Back in the Ottoman capital, he was given a post in the office of the master of ceremonies in Constantinople. As such he got to know several European diplomats to which he retained cordial relations also after he was dismissed and imprisoned in Tripoli, (in present day Libya) in 1906[5] after having been charged of being involved in the murder of Ridvan Pasha.[6] Other members of the Bedir Khan family were sent into exile for this accusation.[7] Following the Young Turk Revolution, he was not pardoned and permitted to return from exile as other members of the Bedir Khans but remained in detention until he was released in 1910.[5]

In 1911, several members of the Bedir Khan family toured the Bohtan area, also Abdurrezzak, who at the times intended to get elected as deputy for the Ottoman Parliament.[8] In 1917, after the Russians captured the eastern provinces of Anatolia, he was given the post of a Governor in Bitlis,[9] following which he attempted to gain the Russians assistance for the Kurdish aims of an independent Kurdistan.[10] He was killed in 1918,[10] and it is unclear on the orders of whom he was killed.[11]

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References
  1. Henning, Barbara (2018-04-03). Narratives of the History of the Ottoman-Kurdish Bedirhani Family in Imperial and Post-Imperial Contexts: Continuities and Changes. University of Bamberg Press. p. 302. ISBN 978-3-86309-551-2.
  2. Henning, Barbara (2018), p.306
  3. Henning, Barbara (2018), pp.302–303
  4. Henning, Barbara (2018), pp.303–304
  5. Henning, Barbara (2018), p.601
  6. Henning, Barbara (2018), pp.304–306
  7. Özoğlu, Hasan (2004). Kurdish notables in the Ottoman Empire. State University of New York Press. p. 95. ISBN 9780791459935.
  8. Klein, Janet (2011-05-31). The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone. Stanford University Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-8047-7570-0.
  9. Jwaideh, Wadie (2006-06-19). The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development. Syracuse University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-8156-3093-7.
  10. Klein, Janet (2011),p.125
  11. Henning, Barbara (2018), p.622
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