Herki

Harki (also: Herki ) are a Kurdish tribe of West Azerbaijan ( Iran). The tribal region bordering eastern Anatolia and the north-eastern Iraq.

By 1963, the harki in Iran were demonstrably arrested predominantly in nomadic structures and lived along the borders of Iraq and Turkey, west or south-west of Lake Urmia. Your summer camp they talked in the highlands of Dahestan ( Targavar and Daštbil ); their winter quarters also in Margavar. Approximately 1350 families were counted. Important clans were the Mandan, the Sayyedān and Sarhāti.

In Turkey and Iraq the harki live very scattered. At the turn of the 20th century has been described that some families in Erzurum to settle the Van Lake and near the Iraqi city of Mosul. Not far from Mosul lived some in the winter months between Arbil and Ravāndez and in the summer months at the waters and tributaries of the Little Zab. Your nomadic migrations were vividly described.

The harki Persia joined Ubeydallah Sheikh, an influential Kurdish sheikh of the Naqshbandi Order. Ubeydallah was also the leader of the Sheikh- Ubeydallah uprising, which was one of the most important " (proto ) nationalist " Kurdish insurgency movements of the 19th century and greatly blamed, to establish an independent Kurdish state. In 1880 he immigrated to Iran. This process was repeated again in 1946, when the harki Qazi Mohammed supported for this same project. The project was granted a short-term success with the founding of the Republic of Mahabad, three days after establishment of the Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan.