Çermik Yurtluk and Ocaklık Sanjak: Çermik Dynasty and Its Situation After Tanzimat

Authors : Davut Öz

Pages : 144-171

Doi:10.21600/ijoks.1423399

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Publication Date : 2024-03-21

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Before the Ottoman Empire, the cities of the Kurdistan Region were ruled by Kurdish tribes and dynasties. When Diyarbakır and its surroundings were taken from the Safavids by the Ottomans, this region gained a new administrative structure. In this administrative structure, the sanjak of Çermik was given to a Kurdish dynasty that was useful in the conquest as yurtluk and ocaklık and was administered with partial freedom. This study, firstly examines, the origins of the Çermik dynasty, the names and terms of office of the dynasty members in the archive records, and the relations of the Çermik lords with the Ottoman State and the people. Then, it examines the end of the yurtluk and ocaklık administration as a result of the reflections on Çermik of the changes that the Ottoman Empire went through with the Tanzimat. The last part is a discussion on the issue of paying salaries to the members of the dynasty in return for the lands they previously held, regulating these salaries with some laws during the Republic of Turkey and eventually ending them.
Keywords : Kurdish history, Çermik, yurtluk and ocaklık, sanjak of Ekrad

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