The Kurdish Society for Cooperation and Progress "Kürt Teavün ve Terakki Cemiyeti" (KTTC) was founded September 1908 in

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

. Also known as the Kurdish Society for Progress and Mutual Aid, Kurdish Society for Mutual Aid and Progress, Kurdish Society for Support and Progress, Kurdish Society for Assistance and Progress, Kurdish Society for Solidarity and Progress, Kurdish Progressive League, Kurdish League, Kurdish Club and Kurdish Society. The society published a Gazette, which was the first legal Kurdish publication, it debated issues surrounding history, language, national unity and many other topics effecting

Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ir ...

. It was the first ever political Kurdish organization and was influenced by European ideas. It called for a political, economic and social awakening of Kurdistan. The announcement of its establishment was made in September 1908 and backed by 500 leading Kurdish intellectuals and statesmen. The membership of the society grew very fast in cities and towns with large Kurdish populations. The society had a cultural branch, which established a Kurdish language school for children in Çemberlitas, Constantinople, led by Abdurrahman Bedir Khan. It was closed down in 1909 and reestablished and renamed in 1917 as the

Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan Society for the Rise of Kurdistan ( ku, Cemîyeta Tealîya Kurdistanê) also known as the Society for the Advancement of Kurdistan (SAK), was secretly established in Istanbul, Constantinople on 6 November 1917 and officially announced organizat ...

. The founding members were;

Abdulkadir Ubeydullah Abdulkadir Ubeydullah (1851, Şemdinli - 1925 Diyarbakır) was a President of the Kurdish Society for Cooperation and Progress (KTTC) and later the Society for the Rise of Kurdistan. He was a leading Kurdish intellectual and a once also a member ...

Şerif Pasha Mehmet Şerif Pasha (1865, Üsküdar, Istanbul - December 22, 1951; Catanzaro, Italy), a founding member of Kurd Society for Cooperation and Progress and representative of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan to the Paris Peace Conference (1 ...

Emin Ali Bedir Khan Emin Ali Bedir Khan (1851, in Heraklion, Kandiye, Crete – 1926, in Cairo) was a founding member of the Kurd Society for Cooperation and Progress and vice president of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan and Kurdish politician. Emin Ali ...

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