The message is clear: HUDA PAR leader is at the grave of AK Party Deputy and İdris-i Bitlisi, who is remembered for the Alevi massacres!

2023-04-23 10:58:27

İSTANBUL. According to the news of the Alevihaberler website, “The leader of HUDA PAR, who performed the Eid prayer at the Hagia Sophia Mosque in Istanbul and AK Party Istanbul Deputy Candidate Zekeriya Yapıcıoğluvisited the tomb of İdris-i Bitlisi, who is known for leading Kurdish tribes in Eastern Anatolia to massacres against Alevis during the reign of Yavuz Sultan Selim, in Eyüp district.“

HUDA PAR Chairman and AK Party Istanbul Deputy candidate Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu performed the Eid prayer in Hagia Sophia. Yapıcıoğlu went to Eyüp Sultan district after the feast prayer, visited the tomb of İdris-i Bitlisi, who is known to have led Kurdish tribes to massacres against Alevi Turkmen communities during the reign of Yavuz Sultan Selim, and recited Fatiha. Yapıcıoğlu was accompanied by HUDA PAR Deputy Chairman Mahmut Şahin and Abdullah Aslan and Istanbul Provincial President İsa Güvendik.

İWHO IS DRIS-İ BITLISI?

It is estimated that he was born in Bitlis in the middle of the 15th century. He is the son of Hüsameddin Ali, one of the scholars and sheiks of the region, who worked in the palace of Akkoyunlu Ruler Uzun Hasan in Diyarbekir, who went there when the center of the Akkoyunlu State was transferred to Tabriz, and attended the scientific meetings of Abdurrahman-ı Câmî there. In 1501, after the Akkoyunlu State was overthrown by Shah Ismail, who founded the Safavid state, he took refuge in the Ottoman State.

Idris, who was a consultant on the eastern policy of Yavuz Sultan Selim, participated in the Iran campaign in 1514 and the Battle of Çaldıran. By the order of Yavuz Sultan Selim, he met with the Kurdish tribal chiefs of the region and met with Urmiye, Itak, Imadiye, Cizre, Egil, Bitlis, Hizan, Garzan, Palu, Siirt, Meyyafârikīn (Silvan), Suran, Çemişkezek, Sasun, Çapakçur, Sincar, Çermik, Hızo, He played an important role in the entry of regions such as Zerik into Ottoman rule without a war.

Idris, who was rewarded by the sultan with 2000 filoris of gold, valuable swords and furs in return for these services, returned from this expedition following the annexation of Aleppo during Yavuz’s Egypt expedition and returned to Malatya, Urfa, Besni, Ergani, Harput, Divrigi, Siverek and precisely Mardin and the other city. and enabled the towns to come under Ottoman rule. According to Idris-i Bitlisi’s “Selim Shahname”, “40 thousand Alevis were beheaded.” He died at the end of 1520 when he was sixty-five or seventy years old. His grave is in Eyüp, in the place called İdris Mansion and Fountain, which is named after him. (Source: Alevihaberler.com.tr.)