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'''Motikan''' is a Kurdish clan inhabiting geographical areas that the indigenous tribes of the region consider the Mutki region of [[Bitlis]] in [[Northern Kurdistan]] or southeast [[Turkey]], as well as the Mutki region of Serhat in [[Northern Kurdistan]]. The Motikan are also referred to as the Motti, Mutki or Motiki. Motiki Kurds in the [[Bitlis]] region generally speak [[Zazaki]], while those in the Serhat region speak northern [[Kurmanci]]. The Motikan name is believed by Kurdish scholars to be a variant of the name, [[Mitanni]], an ancient kingdom in northern [[Syria]] or [[Western Kurdistan]]. The ancient Mitannis or [[Hurrians]] are also believed by some researchers to be one of the several ancient ancestral tribes of the modern [[Kurds]][http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Etank/kurdish/htdocs/his/orig.html].
The '''Motikan''' are a [[Kurds|Kurdish]] tribal confederation inhabiting the [[Bitlis]] region of [[Turkey]]. The Motikan are also referred to as the Motti, Mutki or Motiki. Members of the tribe in the Bitlis region generally speak [[Zazaki]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sykes |first1=Mark |title=The Kurdish Tribes of the Ottoman Empire |journal=The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1908 |volume=38 |pages=465–6 |doi=10.2307/2843309 |jstor=2843309 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1449629 }}</ref> while those in the Serhat region speak northern [[Kurmanci]].

==History==
In 1919 the head of the Motikan, Haci Musa, from Muş, was elected to the executive committee of the [[Erzurum Congress]],<ref>{{cite book|author=Sylvia Kedourie|title=Seventy-five Years of the Turkish Republic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YQHaAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA9|date=2013-09-13|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-135-26705-6|page=9}}</ref> but later became leader of a new Kurdish nationalist party called Azadi (‘freedom’), which rose in rebellion against the government of the new Turkish Republic in 1925 under the leadership of Shaikh Said.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Kemal Kirisci|author2=Kemal Kirişci|author3=Gareth M. Winrow|title=The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans-state Ethnic Conflict|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=34yogVZh9oUC&pg=PA103|year=1997|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-7146-4746-3|page=103}}</ref>

==References==
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Latest revision as of 02:19, 24 April 2024

The Motikan are a Kurdish tribal confederation inhabiting the Bitlis region of Turkey. The Motikan are also referred to as the Motti, Mutki or Motiki. Members of the tribe in the Bitlis region generally speak Zazaki,[1] while those in the Serhat region speak northern Kurmanci.

History

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In 1919 the head of the Motikan, Haci Musa, from Muş, was elected to the executive committee of the Erzurum Congress,[2] but later became leader of a new Kurdish nationalist party called Azadi (‘freedom’), which rose in rebellion against the government of the new Turkish Republic in 1925 under the leadership of Shaikh Said.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Sykes, Mark (1908). "The Kurdish Tribes of the Ottoman Empire". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 38: 465–6. doi:10.2307/2843309. JSTOR 2843309.
  2. ^ Sylvia Kedourie (2013-09-13). Seventy-five Years of the Turkish Republic. Taylor & Francis. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-135-26705-6.
  3. ^ Kemal Kirisci; Kemal Kirişci; Gareth M. Winrow (1997). The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans-state Ethnic Conflict. Psychology Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-7146-4746-3.
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