Çelebi is a Kurdish prominent family inhabiting the Mardin Province of southeastern Turkey.
Background
They were involved in a long running land dispute with the 1,600-year-old Syriac Orthodox Mor Gabriel Monastery.[1] They were involved in the 2009 Mardin engagement ceremony massacre.
They are known for their closeness to the Turkish state.[1] They are currently allied to the Turkish government in its fight against the insurgency of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).[1]
Tribe member Süleyman Çelebi was a member of the Motherland Party.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Diyarbakir; Mardin (2 December 2010). "Wooing Christians". Economist.
- ^ The Transformation of Kurdish Political Identity in Turkey: Impact of Modernization, Democratization and Globalization. 2009. pp. 75–. ISBN 978-1-109-05548-1.
Sources
- Markus Dressler (10 April 2015). Writing Religion: The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam. Oxford University Press. pp. 121–. ISBN 978-0-19-023409-6.
- Markus K. Tozman; Andrea Tyndall (2012). The Slow Disappearance of the Syriacs from Turkey and of the Grounds of the Mor Gabriel Monastery. LIT Verlag Münster. pp. 223–. ISBN 978-3-643-90268-9.
- Uğur Ümit Üngör (1 March 2012). The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950. OUP Oxford. pp. 20–. ISBN 978-0-19-965522-9.
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