The Zil tribal confederation constitutes a number of Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) tribes that mostly live within modern Turkey.

Zil tribes

The following is a list of the Kurmanji speaking Kurdish tribes of the Zil tribal Federation^[1][2]

• Ademan
• Burukan
• Celali
• Dakuri/Takori
• Epdoyi
• Hasanan
• Hayderan
• Milan
• Şadili
• Semsi
• Torular
• Zirkan/Zirqan

Position on the Sheikh Said rebellion

The Zil tribal federation didn't join the Sheikh Said rebellion, many tribes fought on the side of the government. ^[1][2]

See also

• Sheikh Said rebellion
• Kurdish chiefdoms
• Kurdish tribes
• Kurmanji

References

Sources

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• Strohmeier, Martin; Yalçın-Heckmann, Lale (2000). Die Kurden: Geschichte, Politik, Kultur. C.H.Beck. pp. 177–. ISBN 978-3-406-42129-7.
• Olson, Robert (18 December 2013). The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880–1925. University of Texas Press. pp. 144–. ISBN 978-0-292-76412-5.
• Kehl-Bodrogi, Krisztina; Kellner Heinkele, Barbara; Otter Beaujean, Anke (1997). Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East: Collected Papers Of the International Symposium "Alevism in Turkey and Comparable Syncretistic Religious Communities in the Near East in the Past and Present" Berlin, 14-17 April 1955. BRILL. pp. 13–. ISBN 90-04-10861-0.
• Klein, Janet (31 May 2011). The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone. Stanford University Press. pp. 211–. ISBN 978-0-8047-7570-0.
• al-Jabbār, Fāliḥ ʻAbd; Dawod, Hosham (2003). Tribes and power: nationalism and ethnicity in the Middle East. Saqi. ISBN 9780863568046.