Kurds of Central Anatolia

The central Anatolian Kurds (Kurdish: Kurds Anatoliya Navin, Turkish Orta Anadolu Kürtleri or Ic Anadolu Kürtleri ) are Kurds in Turkey, which since the 16th century in Central Anatolia live ( provinces of Aksaray, Ankara, Çankırı, Çorum, Eskisehir, Karaman, Kayseri, Kırıkkale, Kırşehir, Konya, Nevsehir, Nigde, Sivas and Yozgat ).

The core of the central Anatolian Kurds form the Lake Tuz Kürtleri ( Kurds of Tuzgölü ) who live in the provinces of Ankara, Konya and Aksaray. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, she mentioned in a Interwiev with Ahmet Emin ( Yalman ) of 16-17. January 1923 as " Konya çöllerindeki Kürtler " ( Kurds in the deserts of Konya ). You speak as their mother tongue either Kurmanji, Şêxbizinî or Turkish, and are Sunni Muslims and Alevi.

History

The first Kurdish tribe, who arrived in Central Anatolia, is the Modanlı strain. They settled in 1184 in Haymana and spread out not only in various places of Central Anatolia, but also by Hascha -i Istanbul and Rumelia: Aksaray, Kütahya, Rumeli, Çatalca, Koçhisar, Haymana, Ipsala and Evreşe. The Modanlı strain belonged to Asiret Merdisi. The first Central Anatolian Kurdish village called Kürtler ( Kurds ) was founded in 1463 in Yabanâbâd (now Kızılcahamam - Çamlıdere, Ankara ).

The first Kurdish exile in Central Anatolia was granted during the reign of Selim I (1512-1520), who, however, was responsible for the mass killing of at least 40,000 Alevi Turkmens in the wake of the Battle of Chaldiran.

Strains

The largest tribes of the central Anatolian Kurds are the Şeyhbızın, the Reşvan and the Canbeg.

Language

In general, among their native languages ​​Kurdish ( Kurmanji ), but have Kurmanji - speaking persons difficulty understanding the language that is spoken in Haymana, where members of the Şeyhbızın strain ( Şêxbizinî ) live. The new generation of Kurds speaks in some settlements no longer Kurdish.