When I was reading today´s papers I saw something about this topic:
Apperantly there were many ´Kara Fatma´s in our history.
The first one was being mentioned around 1800..A woman, who happens to be a wife of Kurdish tribal leader, called Kara Fatma. This woman was the leader of a bandit group consisted of 78 men and they would rob the people around Corum area of Anatolia..And she was possibly a Christian Yezidi Kurdish .
The other Kara Fatma, who happened to be mentioned around 1850s, had an international celebrity fame..
This one is kurdish too and her name in kurdish was ´Fateras´ or ´Fate Res´ (´Kara fatma´ in Turkish)
When Crimian war was going on, she came to Istanbul with her 300 men. During this time, because there were many British and French soldiers joining the war alongside Ottomans, there were many journalists among them..15 April 1854, a French magazine "L’Illustration Journal Universel "put up a picture of her with the name ‘Kara Fatima, l’héroine du Kürdistan, a’ Constantinople’.
(Kara Fatima. L’héroïne de Kurdistan, à Constantinople, - D’apprès un croquis de M. Fossati.)
An English magazine "The Illustrated London News" follows the French and mention about her as ´ Kurdish lady Kara Fatma is in Istanbul with her Kurdish cavalrymen´ at 22 April 1854.
!0 years later, this time, Le Tour de Monde publishes some engraving with the title as ‘Kara Fatma, la princesse kurde´. And it was also mentioned that she was a Christian Yezidi Kurd.
Bizaarly, later on, the famous play, a symbol of Turkish nationalism, ´Vatan Yahut Silistre´ had some of its insirations from these two women in the character called ´Zekiye´!! (according to some sources of course).
(Kara Fatma, la princesse kurde -- Le Tour du Monde, Paris - 1867)
However, that was the time of raising turkish nationalism and 15 years later, Kurd Kara Fatma, started to became ´Turk Kara Fatma´!!! According to some, she was from a Turkic tribe called Cerid hence she was Turkish..
However, the one Gizem3 was mentioning was Fatma Seher and she was the last one in Kara Fatmas. The name given to her by Ataturk in 1919, then she fought in battles and she commanded 743 men apperantly..She died in 1954 in poor conditions..
Edited (3/8/2009) by thehandsom
Edited (3/8/2009) by thehandsom
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