Tahseen Said or Tahsin
Beg Saied (, b. 15 August 1933 in
Baadre
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– d. 28 January 2019 in
Hanover
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) was the hereditary leader (
Mīr, or prince) of
Yazidis
Yazidis or Yezidis (; ku, ئێزیدی, translit=Êzidî) are a Kurmanji-speaking endogamous minority group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The ma ...
. He was also the head of the Yazidi Supreme Spiritual Council and represented the Yazidis in all matters in respect of states and tribes. Although the historic base of the family is
Ba'adra, Tahseen Said lived in the district capital,
Ain Sifni
Ain Sifni ( ar, عين سفني, ) also known as Shekhan ( ku, شێخان, Şêxan), is a town and subdistrict in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. It is located in the Shekhan District in the Nineveh Plains.
In the town, there is a Chaldean Catholic ...
.
He had a son named
Hazim Tahsin Said.
Life
The Office of Mīr is hereditary and is transmitted from father to son, and Tahseen Said was the successor of his father Saied Beg, who died in 1944. He became Mîr at the age of 11.
Mīr Tahsin joined the Kurdish movement in 1969. He had an office in
Choman area which is located north-east of
Erbil. When Tord Wallström, a
Swedish
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journalist, met him in 1974, Mir Tahsin stated his reason for participating in the
Kurdish Revolt. He stated, “I believe in the principles of the revolt. However, there is no relation between the religion and the revolt. I am Kurdish, and all the
Yezidis
Yazidis or Yezidis (; ku, ئێزیدی, translit=Êzidî) are a Kurmanji-speaking endogamous minority group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The maj ...
are Kurdish; this is the reason why I joined this revolt”. The journalist asked whether all the Yezidis are participating in the revolt, to which Mîr Tahsin responded: “No, but because their participation in the revolt has not been necessary as of yet. I've not requested their participation, but if I do, at least 95% will join the revolt. By the way, the government executed 20 Yazidis recently in Mosul”.
He travelled in 1975 after the
Algiers Agreement led to the crushing of the
Kurds' resistance.
During the 1991–2003 existence of the
Kurdistan Region
Kurdistan Region ( ku, هەرێمی کوردستان, translit=Herêmî Kurdistan; ar, إقليم كردستان), abbr. KRI, is an autonomous region in Iraq comprising the four Kurdish-majority governorates of Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Duhok ...
, he served as sub-ruler of the Yazidis in that territory.
Mîr Tahseen survived an assassination attempt in 2004.
On 4 August 2014, he issued a plea to world leaders concerning the plight of the
Yazidis being attacked by the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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.
He died on 28 January 2019 in the Siloah hospital in Hanover.
He was buried in
Ain Sifni
Ain Sifni ( ar, عين سفني, ) also known as Shekhan ( ku, شێخان, Şêxan), is a town and subdistrict in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. It is located in the Shekhan District in the Nineveh Plains.
In the town, there is a Chaldean Catholic ...
on 5 February 2019.
See also
*
Khurto Hajji Ismail
References
External links
''Interview with the head of the Yazidi: ''Interview mit dem Oberhaupt der Yeziden - Mir Tahsin Saied Beg''(April 1999). Yeziden.de
Iraqi politicians
Iraqi Yazidis
1933 births
2019 deaths
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