Şeyh Sait
Seyit Rıza
M. Nuri Dersimi
He was born in Hozat in Dersim in 1890 into one of the few literate families. Nuri became involved in the Kurdish associations (1911-14) and spent the war years as a military veterinarian in Erzincan; he then moved to the Kocgiri district taking part in the Kocgiri uprising of 1920. In 1930s he was a veterinarian in Dersim and in close contact with Seyid Reza. Just before the outbreak of 1937 resistance movement in Dersim, he had to flee the area. In his exile in Syria he wrote Kurdistan Tarihinde Dersim (Dersim in the History of Zazakistan). His memoirs (Hatiratim) were published posthumously.