Ibrahim Pasha Milli

Ibrahim Pasha Milli, (born 1843 in Urfa – 1908 in Constantinople, sometimes also referred to as 'Milli Ibrahim Pasha' of the tribe of Milli, Milan, Mellan; Kurdish Îbrahîm Paşayê Milî ar ابراهيم باشا ملى), was the chief of the Kurdish Milan tribal federation in Upper Mesopotamia, the Aleppo Vilayet, and the Syrian Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire and the commander of several paramilitary Hamidiye regiments.

Ibrahim was a descendant of the Kurdish tribal leader Eyyub Beg (Bey) whose clan headed a multi-confessional, but mostly Sunni Muslim and Kurmanji speaking federation of tribes that dwelled between Viranşehir, Urfa, Mardin and Diyarbakir and Dêrsim in modern-day Turkey, but also in what is now Northern Iraq's Niniveh Governorate, the Syrian Governorates of Aleppo and Hasakeh (Jazirah), and the Iranian West Azerbaijan Province.

[6] Before the incident, representatives of the city had sent a telegram to the Sultan in Constantinople in which they demanded the withdrawal of Ibrahim Pasha's military credentials and those of his sons "who gave up the honor of being a soldier through brigandage and murder".

The British colonial officer and politician Sir Mark Sykes who studied the tribes in Syria, wrote about Ibrahim Pasha's that he was the "most interesting" tribal leader and that his "mother was an Arab of the noblest race, his father a Kurdist chieftain of renown.

"[9] In 1899 Ibrahim Pasha encountered the German archaeologist, historian and spy Max von Oppenheim and gifted him a peculiar stone statue from Ras al-Ayn.

[11] The sons of Ibrahim Pasha took parts in Guerilla operations against the French forces during the so-called Hananu Revolt in 1920 and fought alongside the Ottoman an Sharifian officer Ramadan al-Shalash.