Erdal ÇİFTÇİ*
he Ottoman Eastern Regions which concurrently called as Eastern Anatolia, or more historically Kurdistan, were a frontier of the state against a significant rival, the Iranian Empires. 1 From the time of Selim I the region became a political and military arena of the two Empires. Beyond the clashes of the states, the region had already possessed a complex political structure at local level. These structures composed of tribes, tribal confederations, and emirates. These tribal units were socio-political formations and they were far beyond the discourse of the moder-nist insights which often depict them as primitive subjects. More sophisticated structures were the Kurdish Emirates that they accomplished to unite tribes and tribal confederates living in their restricted lands. These Emirates mostly enjoyed autonomous power from impenetrable geographic conditions of their territories which did not let the imperial rules to conquer easily. Even though there was not so much difference between the ruling systems of the Hükümet and Yurtluk/Ocak-lık, the latter system appeared in geographically penetrable regions.[1]
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