Atma (tribe) explained

Group:	Atma
Popplace:	Turkey Kahramanmaraş, Malatya
Rels:	Majority Kurdish Alevism, minority Sunni Islam
Langs:	Kurdish

Atma (Local Kurdish: Otmî; ku|Atmî)^[1] is a Kurdish tribe mainly inhabiting parts of Kahramanmaraş and Malatya provinces in Turkey.^[2]

History

Atma tribesmen believe that they descend from the Kalhor tribe in modern-day Iraq but later migrated to Nusaybin then to Malatya, and a portion of the tribe further settled near Pazarcık. In 16th-century Ottoman records, Atma tribe consisted of 7 people near Malatya. Atma villages in Arguvan were formed after early 18th century.^[2] In mid-18th century, Atma inhabited the region to the north of Aintab with 1000 tents,^[3] corresponding to modern-day Pazarcık.

Sub-tribes

Atma is made up of 12 sub-tribes:^[4]

• Rîvon (the foxes; tr|Tilkiler)
• Kizîron (the shorts; tr|Kizirler)
• Haydarlı
• Ketiler
• Sadakalar
• Kızkapanlı (with girl-catchers)
• Karahasanlar
• Karalar (blacks)
• Oxcon (tr|Ağcalar, whites)
• Turûşon (tr|Turuçlu)
• Kabalar (the rudes)
• Mahkânlı

See also

• Maraş massacre

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pazarcık'ın Kürd Köyleri . alevinet . 19 January 2023.
2. Book: Aksüt . Hamza . Aleviler Türkiye, İran, İrak, Suriye, Bulgaristan: araştırma-inceleme . 2009 . Yurt Kitap-Yayın . 9789759025618 . 3 . 208–210.
3. Book: Niebuhr . Carsten . Carsten Niebuhr . C. Niebuhrs Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern . 1778 . Nicolaus Müller . Copenhagen . 418 . 8 July 2022.
4. Book: Çay . M. Abdulhalûk . Her yönüyle Kürt dosyası . 1993 . Boğaziçi Yayınları . 305 . 9789754510782 . 7 January 2023.