Abstract
II. MEŞRUTİYET DÖNEMİNDE KÜRT VE ERMENİ TOPRAK ANLAŞMAZLIĞI VE BİR ÇÖZÜM GİRİŞİMİ
During the majority of 19th century and at the beginning of 20th century, one of the conflicts encountered by the Ottoman Empire is the land grabbing problems between Kurdish and Armenians. The reason of this problem results from Kurds spread in the Armenian territory, Armenian migration and Kurds’ transition from nomadic to settled life. As this was not based on mutual consent of the parties, it brought some conflicts along with it. Therefore in the 2nd Constitutionalist Period, Ottoman Empire established a committee with the participation of the members of Kurdish nationalists and Armenian Dashnak Party (Armenian Revolutionary Federation), and tried to reconcile the parties by ensuring that Kurds return the land and commodities that they grabbed from Armenians. For this purpose, this committee was even given the authority of dismissing soldiers and administrative officials. Having heard of this initiative of Ottoman Empire, Armenians and Kurds gave petitions to the government about how this committee should be formed. However, this initiative was revoked and failed as a result of opposition from the Kurds. This paper analyzes the general situation before the formation of this committee and the events experienced thereafter.
Keywords
Armenian, Kurdish, Ottoman Empire, Land Dispute
