[7] In 1452, Suleiman, the ruler of the Dulkadirids (r. 1442–54), the western neighbor of Çemişgezek, led an offensive with thirty-thousand troops on Sheikh Hasan, who was threatening to seize the fortresses of Gobrak and Vibrak.
[9] In the summer of 1515, Idris Bitlisi had, on behalf of the Ottoman Empire, mobilized a Kurdish army including from Çemişgezek to fight the Aq Qoyunlu[9] and the Safavids to recapture Diyarbakir.
The Kurdish army was joined by Ottoman troops from Amasya marching together towards Diyarbakir and succeeded in capturing the city by mid-September same year.
[11] Kurdish historian Sharafkhan Bidlisi wrote in Sharafnama that the ruler of Çemişgezek Haji Rustem Beg supported Ismail I in the early 1500s which he was executed for by the Ottoman Empire.
After the death of Pir Huseyin, his sixteen sons fought each other which meant that Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent had to intervene.