Alişir
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Alişer or Alişir Efendî (, ; 1862 at İmranlı, Sivas vilayet - 9 July 1937 at Kafar village, Dersim), was a Kurdish poet, bard, intellectual and leader of Koçgiri tribe who fought against the Ottomans during World War I alongside the Russian Army. He was the organizer of the Koçgiri rebellion and one of the main leaders of the Dersim rebellion.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ottoman Empire
- Place of birth
- Altınca
- Place of death
- Tunceli Province
- Occupation
- politician
- Languages spoken
- Turkish
- Native language
- Turkish
- Religion
- Alevism
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- date of death
- 1937-07-09
- date of birth
- 1862-01-01
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10 sectionsContents
- Early life
- World War I
- After World War I
- Koçgiri rebellion
- Dersim rebellion and death
- Alişer's poetry
- Legacy
- See also
- References
- Sources
Alişer or Alişir Efendî (, ; 1862 at İmranlı, Sivas vilayet - 9 July 1937 at Kafar village, Dersim), was a Kurdish poet, bard, intellectual and leader of Koçgiri tribe who fought against the Ottomans during World War I alongside the Russian Army. He was the organizer of the Koçgiri rebellion and one of the main leaders of the Dersim rebellion.
One of the members of the Koçgiri tribe, who was born in present-day Azger (Atlıca) village of İmranlı district of Sivas, in 1921, the "Koçgiri rebellion", which took place in the Koçgiri region of Sivas, who made a name for himself with the events that have been recorded in official records as the first degree cause and perpetrator of the "rebellion".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alişir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.