Celadet Bedir Khan
Celadet Bedirxan Ali ( born April 26, 1893 in Istanbul, † 15 July 1951, Damascus ) was a son of Emin Ali Bedirxan, a writer, linguist, journalist, politician, and advocate of national recognition of the Kurds.
When his grandfather Bedirxan Beg and his family after an uprising against the Ottomans in 1847 came into exile in Istanbul, Celadet Ali was born in Istanbul. There he attended school until the middle stage. In World War I he fought as a soldier in the Ottoman Caucasus Front against the Tsarist Russia.
Celadet Ali Bedirxan was like others of his family member in 1918 founded Kürdistan Teali Cemiyeti. He met, among others, the British espionage officer Edward William Charles Noel, who toured the area to learn more about the Kurds. 1919 should Edward William Charles Noel on behalf of the British Government beyond the National Congress of the new Turkish nationalist movement, Mustafa Kemal and capture Mustafa Kemal. This failed.
1922 went Celadet Ali Bedirxan with his brother Kamuran to Germany. There he sat at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich continued his law studies. He was several languages including French, German, Russian, in addition to Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish and possibly Greek.
Celadet Ali Bedirxan was an opponent of the Kemalists, as they were against the establishment of a Kurdish state. So he went after the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923 to Cairo and then to Syria in 1927. In Lebanon, he founded in 1927 with other Kurdish tribal leaders and intellectuals Xoybun the organization and became the first chairman. After the suppression of the Ararat revolt, which the Xoybun had largely organized, he went to Iran. Later he was expelled from the Shah of Iran for his political activities. After a short stay in Iraq in 1930, he went back to Syria.
In the thirties he gave - under the pseudonym Herekol Azizan - various articles on the Kurdish language out. He has published two Kurdish-language journals with the titles " Hawar " ( cry for help ) ( from 1932) and " Ronahi " (brightness ) ( from 1942). In 1935 he married his cousin Rewşen Xanim and got his children Cemşîd and Sînemxan. Together with Roger Lescot he published a grammar on the Kurmanji. His achievement was the creation of a Latin alphabet for the Kurdish ( Kurdish Latin alphabet ). He died in 1951 in a traffic accident in Damascus.