Abd al-Salam Barzani
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Sheikh Abdulsalam Barzani was a Kurdish rebel in the Ottoman Empire and a Khalidi sheikh.
Biography
[edit]He was an associate of Sheikh Ubeydullah. His father was Sheikh Mohammed Barzani, and his grandfather was Sheikh Abdulsalam. He is the elder brother of Mustafa Barzani, Ahmed Barzani, Sheikh Mohammed Sadiq, and Sheikh Babo.[1]
Barzani's first uprising was against the Young Turks-CUP, who came into power after the 31 March incident against Abdul Hamid II, and replaced Abdul Hamid's Pan-Islamist agenda with their own Turkish nationalist one. A few months later, Sheikh Abdul Salam Barzani launched an uprising, at the same time as the Bitlis uprising, supported by the Russian Empire (who would later massacre 8,000 Kurds in Rawanduz with the help of Assyrian and Armenian volunteers). In 1910, the Ottoman forces left the Barzan area which the uprising took place in and were able to suppress the uprising in Bidlis. In 1913 he was arrested.[2] Mullah Mustafa Barzani was a young child with his mother when Abdulsalam was arrested. A year later, Sheikh Abdul Salam was released and gathered an army and returned to fight. This time, Ottoman forces were defeated and peace was accepted and the other Kurdish rebels were released from prison. Later, a man named Safut Beg from Barzan was accused of murder, the region was once again surrounded by government forces. After a period of fighting and the defeat of the rebels, Sheikh Abdulsalam was executed.[3]