Salih Mirzabeyoğlu

Salih Mirzabeyoğlu was a Turkish Islamist militant leader and religious fundamentalist. Mirzabeyoğlu, an ethnic Kurd originally from Bitlis, was born to a prominent Islamist family which was close to both the Naqshbandi and Nurcu brotherhoods, and were involved with the Kurdish Sheikh Said rebellion in 1925 against the newly founded Turkish Republic. Most of his supporters were Kurds.