Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

the fields of political agitation and diplomatic struggle
for the Kurdish liberation movement.
Revolution of the Merdisian Tribe 1926 under the
Command of Shukri Agha
After the martyrdom of Sheikh Saiid Piran the chiefs
of Merdisian tribe gathered and decided to start a
revolution against the Turkish state as a continuation to
the revolution of the martyred Sheikh. However, before
the start of the revolution there was a Turkish spy in
their gathering who disclosed their secret and the chiefs
of that tribe were captured by the Turkish authorities
before doing anything. Among them were the heroic
main chief of the tribe Shukri Agha and his nephew Apo
Osman Sabri.
During their trial the Turkish General Public Attorney
poured a lot of accusations on them. Then the judge
asked Shukri Agha to reply to the accusations by
presenting his views and defending himself.
Shukri Agha said: “The words spoken by him are
nothing but the words of an enemy and not a General
Attorney. If you want me to defend myself, give me a
dagger to do so, for that is the only language that our
enemies understand … “ The judge told him: “Oh, Shukri
Agha you are in a court and not in Merdisian Mountains.”
All the leaders of our Kurdish people had stands similar
to the stand of Shukri Agha and such stands remain in
the conscience of Kurdish activists for ever and ever.
Shukri Agha and his comrades knew in advance that
the sentence against them would be an execution as it
was the trend against all Kurdish revolutionaries that
stood in front of the “Turkish Independent Courts”
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