Motikan

The Motikan are a Kurdish tribal confederation inhabiting the Bitlis region of Turkey, and ranging from Diyarbakir to Bingöl. [1] The Motikan are also referred to as the Motti, Mutki or Motiki. Members of the tribe in the Bitlis region generally speak Zazaki,[2] while those in the Serhat region speak northern Kurmanci. They are predominantly Sunni Muslims and historically formed the core of the Çemişgezek confederacy.[1] in 1923 the head of the Motikan, Haci Musa, from Muş, was elected to the executive committee of the Erzurum Congress, [3] but later became leader of a new Kurdish nationalist party called Azadi (‘freedom’), which rose in rebellion against the government of the new Turkish Republic in 1925 under the leadership of Shaikh Said.[4]

References

1. Mehrdad Izady; Mehrdad R. Izady (1992). The Kurds: A Concise Handbook. Taylor & Francis. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-8448-1727-9.
2. Sykes, Mark (1908). "The Kurdish Tribes of the Ottoman Empire". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 38: 465–6. doi:10.2307/2843309. JSTOR 2843309.
3. Sylvia Kedourie (2013-09-13). Seventy-five Years of the Turkish Republic. Taylor & Francis. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-135-26705-6.
4. Kemal Kirisci; Kemal Kirişci; Gareth M. Winrow (1997). The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans-state Ethnic Conflict. Psychology Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-7146-4746-3.