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

Hassankifa and brother in law of Shah Ismail himself,
and he stayed in Tabriz Prison for three whole years.
They were only rescued when Shah Ismail was defeated
by the Ottoman Sultan Salem in the famous battle of
Chalderan. This was the reason that led some Kurdish
princes and first of all Sheikh Idris Batlisi to support the
Ottomans in that deciding battle in 1514 AD. So, the
Kurds themselves played a major role in defeating the
Persian Safawids and thus offering Kurdistan to the
Ottoman Turks like a piece of cake. Although the Kurds
did not agree to fight on their side before Sheikh Idris
Batlisi, representing the Kurdish princes, had signed
agreements and treaties carrying the name of the Sultan
and including:
1- Preserving the independence and freedom of the
Kurdish princedoms (numbered as 46).
2- The Kurds would support the Turks in all their wars.
3- The Turks would support the Kurds against foreign
aggression.
4- The Kurds would pay the official taxes and customs
to Sultan’s Treasury.
This treaty between the Sultan and the Kurdish
princedoms and governments was signed in 1514 AD in
Kurdistan.
However, the Ottoman government violated the
conditions of the treaty after fifteen years from its signing
and adopted the policy of gradual extermination against
the Kurdish princedoms until the last of those Kurdish
princedoms was destroyed in 1850 AD (see, The Summary
of the History of the Kurds and Kurdistan, by the scholar
Muhammad Amin Zaki, Vol. 1, page 171).
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