Ottoman Kurds
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Ottoman Kurds were ethnic Kurds who lived in the Ottoman Empire. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled North Kurdistan, South Kurdistan, West Kurdistan, and a small part of East Kurdistan. Parts of Gr
A drawing of a Kurdish prince in the Ottoman Empire in an Italian book called Giro Mondo
Ottoman Kurds visiting Lala Mustafa Pasha, in 1581, holding the heads of Safavid Qizilbash warriors. Nusretname
Eyewitness depiction of Kurdish prince Mir Sheref and his retinue in Jizra in 1602-03 (BNF, Turc 127).
On the left is a Kurdish woman from Yozgat, 1880. (Kurden-Frau aus Juzgat)
Idris Bitlisi
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Idris Bitlisi, sometimes spelled Idris Bidlisi, Idris-i Bitlisi, or Idris-i Bidlisi, and fully Mevlana Hakimeddin İdris Mevlana Hüsameddin Ali-ül Bitlisi, was an Ottoman Kurdish religious scholar and
Ottoman Kurds
…contact with Kurds during their conflict with the Safavids in 1514, under the rule of Selim I. Their first interactions were positive. The Kurds, led by Idris Bitlisi, sided with the Ottoman invaders against the Safavids during the Battle of Chaldiran. The Kurdish forces played a big role in taking Diyarbakır and…
The tombstone of Idris Bitlisi in Eyüp Sultan
One of the earliest extant copies of Bitlisi's Salīm-Shāhnāmah, completed after 1567 but before 1574. Persian MS 47, John Rylands Library (University of Manchester)