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Bedir Khan
Bedir Khan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bedir Khan Beg * Emin Ali Bedir Khan * Bedri Pasha Bedir Khan, Kurdish Ottoman politician * Abdürrezzak Bedir Khan * Leyla Bedir Khan * Celadet Bedir Khan * Kamuran Alî Bedirxan * Süreyya Bedir Khan * Wiam Simav Bedirxan *Ahmed Badrakhan {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedir Khan Beg
Bedir Khan Beg (Kurmanji: ''Bedirxan Beg'', ; 1803–1869) was the last Kurds, Kurdish Mir (title), Mir and mütesellim of the Bohtan, Emirate of Botan. Hereditary head of the house of Rozhaki whose seat was the ancient Bitlis Castle and descended from Sharafkhan Bidlisi, Bedir Khan was born in Cizre (now in Turkey) of Azizan family. He became the Mir of the Emirate of Botan in 1821 and ruled until 1847. The Bedir Khans also claimed descent from Muhammad's general Khalid ibn al-Walid. Early life He was born to Abdullah Bey, and became the ruler of Botan after his cousin Sayfuddin (who succeeded Abdullah Bey after his death), wasn't able to calm down the region and his brother Said Bey was too religious and left the leadership to Bedir Khan. During his first term as Mir, he soon established a regional control strong enough, that allowed him to deny his support to the Ottoman Sultan during the Russo-Turkish War (1828–29), Russo-Turkish War between 1828 and 1829. He managed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emin Ali Bedir Khan
Emin Ali Bedir Khan (also Bedirhan, ; 1851/1852 – 1926) was an Ottoman and Kurdish politician and judge. He was a founding member of the Kurdish Society for Cooperation and Progress and vice president of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan. Emin Ali was born in Kandiye on Crete to Bedir Khan Beg, the last hereditary ruler of the Principality of Bohtan, and his spouse Rewshen. He worked as an official in the Ottoman judicial system in various cities. He became involved in Kurdish politics and in 1918 advocated for the establishment of an independent Kurdistan. He was one of the Kurdish representatives at the Paris Peace Conference following World War I. Shortly before the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, he went into exile in Egypt, where he died in 1926. His sons Süreyya, Celadet and Kamuran are remembered as prominent figures in the Kurdish nationalist movement. Early life Emin Ali Bedir Khan was born in Kandiye (modern-day Heraklion) on Crete in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedri Pasha Bedir Khan
Bedri Pasha Bedir Khan (1847/48 in Cizre – 1911) was an Ottoman Kurdish politician and a member of the Bedir Khan family. Early life and education Bedri Pasha Bedir Khan was born in Cizre, at a time his father Bedir Khan Beg was involved in the defense of Bohtan, which he eventually wouldn't achieve and be exiled to Crete. It is reported that his mother was of Yazidi origin. Bedri Pasha was educated by teachers in Crete and following was able to communicate in Turkish, Arabic and Persian, besides Greek. Career In 1871, began to work for the Ottoman government in the a Syrian village in the Hawran district. His appointment as a Kurd, was according to a policy of Mehmed Reshid Pasha the Vali of the Vilayat, with which he attempted to cause division within the Druze, and Bedouin communities in the sancaks of Hama, Hawran and Nablus.Henning, Barbara (2018), p.187 He has organized Kurdish troops from Syria for the Ottoman Empire in view of the Ottoman-Russian war in 1877–18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdürrezzak Bedir Khan
Abdürrezzak Bedir Khan (1864 in Constantinople – 1918) was an Ottoman Kurdish diplomat, politician and a member of the Bedir Khan family. 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. 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. 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 more 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 for the Russian Empire, in which he wanted to settle in Yerevan. Through his diplomati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leyla Bedir Khan
Leyla Bedir Khan (or Bedirxan) (1903, Constantinople1986, Paris) was a ballet dancer and a Kurdish princess of the Bedir Khan family. Biography Leyla Bedir Khan's birthdate is disputed, but it was likely 31 July 1903 as she was born in Constantinople. Leyla herself said, she was born in 1908, but her father was in prison in Libya between 1906 and 1910. She was born into a noble household to Abdürrezzak Bedir Khan, a descendant of Bedir Khan Beg and Henriette Ornik, a dentist of Austrian-Jewish origin. Her first years she passed in the Ottoman Empire, but her family soon settled in Egypt, where she grew up with the diplomatic society in Cairo and Alexandria. After her father's death, she and her mother went to live in Vienna, where Leyla took her first dancing lessons. To complete her secondary education, she attended a school in Montreux, Switzerland. She started a dancing career afterwards and by 1924 she starred at the Concert Hall in Vienna. Leyla left for France to pursue h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamuran Alî Bedirxan
Kamuran Alî Bedirxan (, born 21 August 1895 in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire; died 6 December 1978 in Paris) was a Kurds, Kurdish politician, lawyer and writer. Family He came from the family of the Bedirxans, who for centuries, as autonomous vassals of the Ottomans, ruled the Principality of Bohtan with the capital Cizre. His grandfather Bedr Khan Beg, Bedirxan Beg had rebelled against the Ottomans at the end of the 19th century and was deported to Istanbul after his defeat and family. Kamuran's father Emin Ali Bedir Khan, Emin Ali Bedirxan was politically active in the Kurdish movement and was the founder of the Kürdistan Teâli Cemiyeti, Kurdistan Teali Cemiyeti, in which Kamuran was also a member. His brother Celadet Bedir Khan, Celadet Ali Bedirxan was also politically active and the creator of the Latin Kurmanji alphabet. Kamuran had been married to the Polish princess Nathalie d'Ossovetzky (who died in 1975) since 1954. d'Ossovetzky, who has been his student and later also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Süreyya Bedir Khan
Süreyya Bedir Khan (1883 in Constantinople – 1938 in Paris) was a Kurdish prince, a descendant of Bedir Khan Beg and a member of the Bedir Khan family. He was an influent supporter of Kurdish independence, a journalist and author of several books. His works are also known under his pen-name Bletch Chirguh. Like other members of the Bedir Khan family, he claimed an ancestry to Khalid Ibn al-Walid, the ''Sword of Islam'' and general and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Early life and education He was born into the noble Kurdish family of the Bedir Khans, as the son of Emin Ali Bedir Khan and his first wife. His mother died as he was still a child, in 1887. He attended the Galatasaray High school in Constantinople until 1906, as he had to abandon his studies when he and other male members of the Bedirkhan family were sent into exile to Isparta, after his uncle Ali Şamil Bedir Khan was accused of being involved in the murder of the mayor of Constantinople, . Politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiam Simav Bedirxan
Wiam Simav Bedirxan is a Syrian Kurdish documentary filmmaker from Homs, who co-directed the 2014 film '' Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait'' with exiled filmmaker Usama Muhammad. Bedirxan documented the Siege of Homs and sent its footage via the internet to Muhammad in Paris in order to make ''Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait'', which had its world premiere at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Wiam Simav Bedirxan was born in Saudi Arabia, where her mother was a teacher for five years. The family returned to Syria in the 1980s and proceeded to settle in Homs in 1997. She attended university in Aleppo after which she became an elementary school teacher in Homs and began to film what happens in Homs. She fled Syria through Istanbul and from there to Paris to work on the film ''Silvered Water, Syria Self Portrait'' with Usama Muhammad and attend the film's world premiere in Cannes Cannes (, ; , ; ) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
