Jangir Agha

Jangir Agha (Kurdish: Cangîr Axa, Cîhangîr Axa, Armenian: Ջահանգիր Աղա, Russian: Джаангир Ага, c. 1874–1943) was a prominent Yazidi military and social figure of Armenia in the early 20th century. He is considered a national hero of the Kurdish Yazidi people. He died in prison in 1943 after being arrested during the Great Purge in 1938; he was posthumously rehabilitated.