The Motikan are a
Kurdish tribal confederation inhabiting the
Bitlis region of
Turkey. The Motikan are also referred to as the Motti, Mutki or Motiki. Members of the tribe in the Bitlis region generally speak
Zazaki, while those in the Serhat region speak northern
Kurmanci
Kurmanji ( ku, کورمانجی, lit=Kurdish, translit=Kurmancî, also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northern dialect of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern S ...
. in 1919 the head of the Motikan, Haci Musa, from Muş, was elected to the executive committee of the
Erzurum Congress, but later became leader of a new Kurdish nationalist party called Azadi (‘freedom’), which rose in rebellion against the government of the new Turkish Republic in 1925 under the leadership of Shaikh Said.
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Kurdish tribes