Simko Shikak revolt (1918–1922)

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The Simko Shikak revolt was an armed Ottoman-backed tribal Kurdish uprising against the Qajar dynasty of Iran from 1918 to 1922, led by Kurdish chieftain Simko Shikak from the Shekak tribe. During 1920–1922 under the leadership of Agha Simko, Kurdish tribal forces in Kurdish areas of the new born Iran challenged the authority of the central Persian government. After Brigadier-General Reza Khan deposed the Qajars in a 1921 coup, he defeated Simko Shikak as well as several prominent rebel commanders such as Kuchik Khan and Colonel Pessian during the Iranian events of 1921. Following the assassination of Mar Shimun by Simko, the forces of Agha Petros carried out a retaliatory massacre in the city of Urmia in 1918, in which an estimated 10,000-15,000 Kurds and Turks—men, women, and children—were killed.

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