OSMANLI-İRAN HUDUT BOYLARINDA AŞİRET, DEVLET VE SİYASET: CAF KÜRT AŞİRETİ VE REİSLERİ ASİ MAHMUT PAŞA MESELESİ

Abstract

Kurdish tribes in the Ottoman-Iranian border both it affected and influenced by interstate relations because of the strategic territories they lived on. These lands make the Kurds important in the history. One of the boundaries of the region, which has a strategic prescription between the two states, was Suleymaniye Sandjak, where Caf Kurdish tribe resided. Iran, who wanted to take Suleymaniye's lands under control, tried to carry out the same politics on the Baban Emirate on the Caf Tribe since the second half of the 19th century. The Iranian government, in particular, has appointed Sine ruler and Iranian officials for this work. Iranian's local administrators have tried to attract Caf's chiefs with various promises and rewards. Iran's such an approach to a tribe that was an under the domination of Ottoman led to diplomatic crisis between the two states. Caf tribe knew very well to take advantage of it in accordance with its own interests of their land and power struggle continuing for many years between in the two states. Caf leaders were not to hesitate to taken shelter in other state lands when they fall into disagreement with their central and local governments. One of these leaders was Mahmut Pasha, who was appointed as the District Governor to Gulanber's district with the title of Pasha after his father