Molla Mehmet Karayılan
Molla Mehmet Karayılan (1888 - 24 May 1920) was a Kurdish villager who famously fought and died in the Siege of Aintab. Early life Mehmet was born in 1888 in a tent in the Elifler or Kürt Elif hamlet in the Besni kaza, Ottoman Empire, modern-day Pazarcık, Turkey, to a relatively affluent family belonging to the Kabalar sub-tribe of the Kurdish Atma or Reshwan tribe. His father, Mahmut, was a skillful fighter, earning him the nickname ''Karayılan'' ( ''black snake''), which Mehmet inherited. In 1904, his father was killed by Armenian bandits raiding the hamlet. Mehmet took Quran lessons from the imam of the Söğütlü village in modern-day Malatya Province and became the imam of his own village. Because of this, he came to be known as '' Molla''. World War I Molla Mehmet fought against Russia for the Ottomans during World War I and got injured on his leg. After healing, he became the leader of his tribe. He collaborated with the Ottoman government to track down and kill t ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. The empire emerged from a Anatolian beyliks, ''beylik'', or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in by the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors Ottoman wars in Europe, conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the Fall of Constantinople, conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II. With its capital at History of Istanbul#Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and control over a significant portion of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interacti ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]