Emin Ali Bedir Khan

Emin Ali Bedir Khan (also Bedirhan, Ottoman Turkish: امین علی بدرخان; 1851/1852 – 1926) was an Ottoman and Kurdish politician and judge. He was a founding member of the Kurdish Society for Cooperation and Progress and vice president of the Society for the Elevation of Kurdistan.

Emin Ali was born in Kandiye on Crete to Bedir Khan Beg, the last hereditary ruler of the Principality of Bohtan, and his spouse Rewshen. He worked as an official in the Ottoman judicial system in various cities. He became involved in Kurdish politics and in 1918 advocated for the establishment of an independent Kurdistan. He was one of the Kurdish representatives at the Paris Peace Conference following World War I. Shortly before the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, he went into exile in Egypt, where he died in 1926. His sons Süreyya, Celadet and Kamuran are remembered as prominent figures in the Kurdish nationalist movement.