Nazımiye (), formerly known as Kızıl Kilise (, ), is a municipality and seat of the

Nazımiye District Nazımiye District is a district of Tunceli Province in Turkey. The town of Nazımiye is the seat and the district had a population of 3,011 in 2021. Its area is 543 km2. Composition Beside the town of Nazımiye, the district encompasses ...

Tunceli Province Tunceli Province (), formerly Dersim Province (; ; ), is a province in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Its central city is Tunceli. The province has a Kurdish majority. Moreover, it is the only province in Turkey with an Alevi majority. ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. It had a population of 1,262 in 2021. It is populated by Zaza Kurds of the Arel and Lolan tribes. The main religion is

Kurdish Alevism Kurdish Alevism ( or ) refers to the unique rituals, sacred place practices, mythological discourses and socio-religious organizations among Kurds who adhere to Alevism. Kurdish Alevis consider their hereditary sacred lineages as semi-deific fig ...

and main language is

Zazaki Zaza (endonym: , , , , , or , ) is a Northwestern Iranian language spoken primarily in eastern Turkey by the Zazas, who are mostly considered as Kurds, and in many cases identify as such. The language is a part of the Zaza–Gorani language g ...

. At the same time,

crypto-Armenians Hidden Armenians (; ) or crypto-Armenians () is an umbrella term to describe Turkey, Turkish citizens hiding their full or partial Armenians, Armenian ancestry from the larger Turkish society. They are mostly descendants of Ottoman Armenians who, ...

who survived the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily t ...

also live in Nazımiye.

History

Its old name is ''Kızıl Kilise'' (). The settlement, which came under Ottoman rule after the Battle of

Battle of Chaldiran The Battle of Chaldiran (; ) took place on 23 August 1514 and ended with a decisive victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire. As a result, the Ottomans annexed Eastern Anatolia and Upper Mesopotamia from Safavid Iran. It marked ...

in 1514, was first connected to the Çemişgezek Sanjak and then to the Mazgirt Sanjak. 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. The settlement, which was connected to Erzincan in 1847, rose to the status of an accident in 1876. 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. In 1894, there were 228 people living in the settlement, which had 24 households, of which 6 were

Armenians Armenians (, ) are an ethnic group indigenous to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.Robert Hewsen, Hewsen, Robert H. "The Geography of Armenia" in ''The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiq ...

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 Mehmed V Reşâd (; or ; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) was the penultimate List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a Constitutional monarchy, constitutional monarch. He had ...

, who was born in 1910, was approved in the same year, and it was renamed Nazımiye. Nazımiye, which was affiliated to

Elazığ Elazığ () is a city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey, and the administrative centre of Elazığ Province and Elazığ District. Founded in and around the former city of Harput, it is located in the uppermost Euphrates valley. The plai ...

during

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, began to be administered from

Tunceli Tunceli (, , ) is a municipality (belde) in Tunceli District and capital of Tunceli Province, Turkey. The city has a Zaza majority. It had a population of 35,161 in 2021. Name During Ottoman times, the settlement was called ''Kalan'' or ''Ma ...

in 1947.

Notable people

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (; born 17 December 1948), also referred to by his initials KK, is a Turkish politician who served as the Leader of the Republican People's Party, leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP) from 2010 to 2023. He was Lis ...

: Turkish economist, retired civil servant and

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. He is the former leader of the

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(CHP). *

Kamer Genç Kamer Genç (February 23, 1940 – January 22, 2016) was a Turkish politician, elected a member of parliament for the Republican People's Party in the 1987 and 1991 elections, for the True Path Party in the 1995 and 1999 elections, as an indep ...

: Turkish politician of Zaza Kurd origin, elected a member of

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for the Republican People's Party. *

Alican Önlü Alican Önlü (born 27 December 1967, Nazimye, Turkey) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) and a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Throughout his political career he was a politician i ...

: Turkish politician of

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origin. 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 Edibe Şahin (born 1960 in Nazımiye, Tunceli Province, Tunceli, Turkey) was the mayor of the municipality of Tunceli (Mamekiye), the capital of Tunceli Province in Eastern Anatolia Region, Eastern Anatolia, for the Democratic Society Party (DTP). ...

: Turkish politician of Kurdish origin, was the mayor of the municipality of Tunceli. *

Hüseyin Aygün Hüseyin Aygün (born 20 October 1970, Tunceli) is a Turkish lawyer and politician of Alevi Zaza origin. He is a former Member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Republican People's Party (CHP) and a founder of the Tunceli Bar As ...

: Turkish lawyer and politician of Zaza Kurd origin. *

Ali Haydar Kaytan Ali Haydar Kaytan (born 26 March 1952 - 18 November 2021), also known as Fuad,Cigerli, Sabri; Saout, Didier Le (2005), pp.68–69 was a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and a member of the executive council of the Kurdistan Commun ...

(or Fuad): co-founder of the

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(PKK). Kaytan was born in 1952 into a Kurdish family whose members were resettled in the aftermath of the

Dersim rebellion The Dersim massacre, also known as Dersim genocide, was carried out by the Turkish military over the course of three operations in the Dersim Province (renamed Tunceli) against Kurds, Kurdish rebels of Kurdish Alevism, Alevi faith, and civilians ...

.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. .

References

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