Jaladat Ali Badirkhan

   Jaladat Ali Badirkhan (or Celadet Elî Bedirxan in Kurdish, also known as Mîr Celadet) (April 26, 1893 - 1951), was a Kurdish diplomatist, writer, linguist, journalist and political activist. According to Kurdish sources he was born in a suburb of Istanbul, Turkey, however according to Encyclopaedia Britannica, he was born in Maktala in Syria. He held a master's degree in law from Istanbul University, completed his studies in Munich, and spoke several foreign languages including Arabic, Turkish, Russian, German and French.

Ali Badirkhan left Turkey for Egypt in 1923 when the Kemalists declared the new republic. In 1927, at a conference of Kurdish nationalists held in Beirut, a committee was formed, called the Xoybûn, to coordinate the movement. Jaladat Ali Badirkhan was elected as the first president of this committee. Three years later, he became involved in the Kurdish independence movement in Ağrı Province, called Republic of Ararat. After the defeat of the Ararat movement, he moved to Iran. Reza Shah Pahlavi, King of Iran, tried to persuade him to stay away from Kurdish nationalist movement, and offered him a consulate job, but had him expelled from the country when he did not agree. Then he moved to Iraq, but the British did not want him to stay, and he finally moved to Syria in 1931, where he lived his remaining two decades in exile.

After the defeat of Kurdish nationalist movements in Turkey, Iraq and Iran, he devoted himself to the Kurdish cultural issues. In 1935 he married his cousin Rewşen Xanim. He had two children from this marriage, Cemşîd and Sînemxan. During his last years, he faced severe economic problems, and he had to work as a farmer. In July 1951, he fell into a well during an incident and died.

His daughter Sînemxan, lives as of 2005^[update] in Baghdad; she has written several books on Kurdistan's history.