Nazımiye

Nazımiye Qızılkılise
Municipality
A village in Nazımiye, 2006
Country	Turkey
District	Tunceli
Government
• Mayor	Ali Emrah Tekin (CHP)
Population  (2021)	1,262
Time zone	UTC+3 (TRT)
Postal code	62950
Website	www.nazimiye.gov.tr

Nazımiye (Zazaki: Qızılkılise, lit. 'The Red Church'; Kurdish: Qisle)[1] is a municipality (belde) and seat of the Nazımiye District of Tunceli Province in Turkey. It had a population of 1,262 in 2021.[2] It is populated by Kurds of the Arel and Lolan tribes.[3] The main religion is Kurdish Alevism and main language is Zaza.[4]

History

Its old name is Kızıl Kilise (Ottoman Turkish: قزيل کليسا).[5] The settlement, which came under Ottoman rule after the Battle of Battle of Chaldiran in 1514, was first connected to the Çemişgezek Sanjak and then to the Mazgirt Sanjak.[6]

In the census of the period of 1521–1523, the settlement was in the status of a village with the name Kızıl Kilise, and there were 23 households in the settlement where the members of the Dersimlü tribe lived at that time.[7] The settlement, which was connected to Erzincan in 1847, rose to the status of an accident in 1876.[6] In the records of 1880, the settlement was seen as one of the districts of Mazgirt Sanjak of Dersim Vilayet, but when the Dersim Province was abolished in 1892, this time it continued to be a district under the Dersim Sanjak.[8]

In 1894, there were 228 people living in the settlement, which had 24 households, of which 6 were Armenians and the rest were Muslims. In 1911, the name of the settlement to be changed in honor of Mehmet Nazım Efendi, the grandson of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V, who was born in 1910, was approved in the same year, and it was renamed Nazımiye.[6] Nazımiye, which was affiliated to Elazığ during World War I, began to be administered from Tunceli in 1947.

Notable people

• Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu: Turkish economist, retired civil servant and social democratic politician. He is the former leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP).
• Kamer Genç: Turkish politician of Zaza Kurd origin,[9][10] elected a member of parliament for the Republican People's Party.
• Alican Önlü: Turkish politician of Kurdish origin.[11] He was nominated as a Tunceli Deputy by the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and was elected as a Member of Parliament with a vote rate exceeding 61%.
• Edibe Şahin: Turkish politician of Kurdish origin, was the mayor of the municipality of Tunceli.
• Hüseyin Aygün: Turkish lawyer and politician of Zaza Kurd origin.
• Ali Haydar Kaytan (or Fuad):[12] co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Kaytan was born in 1952 into a Kurdish family whose members were resettled in the aftermath of the Dersim rebellion.[13][14]

References

1. Çem, Munzur (2009). Dêrsim merkezli Kürt aleviliği:(etnisite, dini inanç, kültür ve direniş). p. 19.
2. "Türkiye Mülki İdare Bölümleri Envanteri". T.C. İçişleri Bakanlığı (in Turkish). Retrieved 19 December 2022.
3. Bayrak, Mehmet (1994). Kürdoloji belgeleri: açık - gizli, resmi - gayrıresmi (in Turkish). ÖZGE Yayınları. p. 283.
4. Mehemed Malmîsanij (1988). "Dımıli ve Kurmanci Lehçelerinin Köylere Göre. Dağılımı". Berhem (in Kurdish and Turkish). 3: 62–67.
5. Tahir Sezen, Osmanlı Yer Adları (Alfabetik Sırayla), T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Yayın Nu:21, Ankara, 2006, p. 310.
6. Yedek 2019, p. 278–281, 292–293. sfn error: no target: CITEREFYedek2019 (help)
7. Yıldırım 2012, p. 35. sfn error: no target: CITEREFYıldırım2012 (help)
8. Yılmazçelik, İbrahim; Erdem, Sevim (2017). "II. Abdülhamid Döneminde Dersim Sancağındaki İdari Yapı ve Ulaşım Ağı". Gazi Akademik Bakış. 11 (231,). DergiPark. p. 29.
9. Yalçın, Soner. "Cumhuriyet'in yurttaşı KAMER GENÇ - Soner Yalçın - Köşe Yazıları – Sözcü". Sözcü Gazetesi (in Turkish). Dört çocuklu ailenin ikinci oğlu idi. Zaza idiler.
10. "Kamer Genç Haberleri - Son Dakika Kamer Genç Hakkında Güncel Haber ve Bilgiler". HÜRRİYET - ARAMA (in Turkish). Kamer Genç (23 Şubat 1940, Nazimiye, Tunceli - 22 Ocak 2016, İstanbul) Zaza asıllı Türk siyasetçi. 18, 19. dönem SHP, 20. ve 21. dönem DYP, 23. ve 24. dönem CHP Tunceli TBMM milletvekilidir.
11. "Alican Önlü Haberleri - Son Dakika Alican Önlü Hakkında Güncel Haber ve Bilgiler". HÜRRİYET - ARAMA (in Turkish). Alican Önlü, 1967, Nazimiye, Tunceli doğumlu, Kürt kökenli Türk siyasetçi. Lise mezunudur. 1994-96 yılları arasında HADEP İstanbul il yöneticiliği, HADEP Parti Meclis Üyeliği Gençlik Kolları Genel Başkanlığı görevlerini yürüttü. 2002-2004 yılları arasında DEHAP PM Üyesi MYK Tunceli İl Başkanlığı görevini yürüten Önlü, 2009 yerel seçimlerde Dersim Belediye Meclisi Üyeliği, Belediye Başkan Yardımcılığı yaptı. Önlü, 2014'te Demokratik Bölgeler Partisi Parti Meclis Üyeliği ve Demokratik Belediyeler Birlik yürütme üyesi görevlerini de yürüttü. 2015 Genel Seçimlerinde HDP tarafından Tunceli Milletvekili adayı gösterildi ve %61'i aşan bir oy oranı ile Milletvekili seçilmiştir. Evli ve 2 çocuk babasıdır.
12. Cigerli, Sabri; Saout, Didier Le (2005), pp.68–69
13. Törne, Annika (5 November 2019). Dersim – Geographie der Erinnerungen: Eine Untersuchung von Narrativen über Verfolgung und Gewalt (in German). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 127. ISBN 978-3-11-062771-8.
14. Cetin, Umit; Jenkins, Celia; Aydin, Suavi (May 2020). Kurdish Studies, Special Issue: Alevi Kurds: History, Politics and Identity. Vol. 8. Transnational Press London. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-912997-48-0.