Zil (tribe)

The Zil tribal confederation constitutes a number of Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) tribes that mostly live within modern Turkey.

Zil tribes

The following is a list of the Kurmanji speaking Kurdish tribes of the Zil tribal Federation[1][2]

  • Ademan
  • Burukan
  • Celali
  • Dakuri/Takori
  • Epdoyi
  • Hasanan
  • Hayderan
  • Milan
  • Şadili
  • Semsi
  • Torular
  • Zirkan/Zirqan

Position on the Sheikh Said rebellion

The Zil tribal federation didn't join the Sheikh Said rebellion, many tribes fought on the side of the government. [1][2]


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References
  1. Olson 2013.
  2. Uslu 2009, p. 75.

Sources
  • Uslu, Emrullah (2009). The Transformation of Kurdish Political Identity in Turkey: Impact of Modernization, Democratization and Globalization. ProQuest. pp. 75–. ISBN 978-1-109-05548-1.
  • Martin Strohmeier; Lale Yalçın-Heckmann (2000). Die Kurden: Geschichte, Politik, Kultur. C.H.Beck. pp. 177–. ISBN 978-3-406-42129-7.
  • Robert Olson (18 December 2013). The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880–1925. University of Texas Press. pp. 144–. ISBN 978-0-292-76412-5.
  • Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi; Barbara Kellner Heinkele; Anke Otter Beaujean (1997). Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East: Collected Papers Of the International Symposium "Alevism in Turkey and Comparable Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East in the Past and Present" Berlin, 14-17 April 1955. BRILL. pp. 13–. ISBN 90-04-10861-0.
  • Janet Klein (31 May 2011). The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone. Stanford University Press. pp. 211–. ISBN 978-0-8047-7570-0.
  • al-Jabbār, Fāliḥ ʻAbd; Dawod, Hosham (2003). Tribes and power: nationalism and ethnicity in the Middle East. Saqi.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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