Jaladat Ali Badirkhan, also known as Prince Jaladat (Kurdish: جەلادەت بەدرخان یان میر جەلادەت) was worn on #20-04-1893# in Istanbul. He is the son of the well-renouned Kuridsh political figure and intellecutal Amin Ali Badirkha and his mother was Saniha Khanim Chargaz. He was the oldest child in his family.
He was a politician, journalist, and a great linguist.
He is known as the pioneer of Kurdish writing with the Latin alphabet. He managed to issue the (Hawar magazine) and (Runahi newspaper).
He was an active political figure and Kurdish nationalist, with many contributions to the Kurdish cause, such as the founder of (Khoyiboon group), a Kurdish organisation which worked to establish a free Kurdsitan.
After the struggle of the Badirkhan family with the Ottoman Sultan (Abdulhamid), his entire family was banished to Yemen.
Following the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Mustafa Kamal Ataturk to power, and the loss of all rights of Kurdish citizens, Jaladat Badirkhan, his father and 2 brothers were all sentenced to be hanged to death. His father and brother (Suraya) fled to Egypt, and Jaladat and his other brother (Kamooran) fled to Germany, where they took asylum, and while staying there Jaladat Badirkhan managed to get doctorate degree in Law.
He returend to Sham in 1930, where he continued his work in (Khoyiboon group) to help the Kurdish struggle.
Jaladat Badirkhan was a talented linguist and in addition to his mother tongue of Kurdish, could speak English, French, Greman, Turkish, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Greek.
At the age of 18, he started to attend military school, and during the years of the First World War, he worked as an instructor in the army, as well as fought in the Caucasus agaisnt the Russians.
Afther the First World War, the Ottoman Empire fell into an unstable situation, which preseneted an oportunity for the Kurds to reorganise themselves and work towards an indepented national state. Badirkhan played a central role in these operations. When they tried to return to Kurdistan to work on their mission, the Kamalists found out about them and were forced away from their homeland.
In 1935 he married his cousine Rawshan Khanim in Syria, and they had three children (Jamshid, Sinamkhan, and Safdar).
In 1931, he received a lisence from the French gorment to issue and operate a magazine in Syria, after which he established the Hawar magazine on #05-05-1932#.
After the start of the Second World War, Badirkhan started to issue a new magazine (Ronahi magazine), until its issuance was halted in 1943.
Prince Jaladat Badirkhan passed away on #15-07-1951# in Hajane village, and was buried by his grandfather in the Sheikh Khalid Naqishbandi cemetary in the Levant.[1]