Alişer

Alişer
Efendî
Personal details
Born1862
İmranlı, Sivas Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died9 July 1937
(aged 75)
Kafat, Ovacık
Spouse(s)Zarife Xanım
(?–9 July 1937)
NicknameAlîşêr Efendî
Military service
Allegiance Russian Empire (1914–17)
Society for the Rise of Kurdistan (1919–21)
Wars Koçgiri rebellion
Dersim rebellion

Alişer or Alişir Efendî (Kurdish: Alîşêr Efendî; 1862 at İmranlı, Sivas vilayet - 9 July 1937 at Kafar village, Dersim), was a Kurdish poet, bard, intellectual and leader of Koçgiri tribe who fought against the Ottomans during World War I along side the Russian Army. He was the organizator of Koçgiri rebellion and one of the main leaders of the Dersim rebellion.

One of the members of the Koçgiri tribe, who was born in present-day Azger (Atlıca) village of İmranlı district of Sivas, in 1921, the "Koçgiri rebellion", which took place in the Koçgiri region of Sivas, who made a name for himself with the events that have been recorded in official records as the first degree cause and perpetrator of the "rebellion".