Kurdish disunity in the 16th-century

According to Sharafxan, the Ottoman sultan proposed that the Kurdish rulers select one individual among themselves to have absolute command in Kurdistan, but Idris noted that everyone said, "It can only be me; it cannot be anyone else but me."

Sharafxan (16th-century): 

When the Sultan's [Selim I] army returned from Tabriz to Rum [Anatolia], the thinker İdris, in the name of the Kurdish princes forwarded a report to the throne of the most esteemed Sultanate. The report made it explicit that in order to go to Diyarbakir together under the command of the Sultan and to eject the Safavid governor Qara Khan [the following measures were necessary]; he asked that, out of his grace, the Sultan would give them [the Kurdish princes] their tra-ditional hereditary rights in order to find favor amongst them. He recommended that an important individual be raised to the rank of beylerbeyi. The Sultan responded positively and gave this answer: "Let the Kurdish princes and rulers choose one from amongst themselves who all of them can obey and bow to and who can take the responsibility for position of beylerbeyi and under whose command the Qezelbash can be struck and ejected them from the country." There-after, the thinker İdris sent one more report which stated "Here there is plurality rather than unity. All say "It can only be me; it cannot be anyone else but me.' No one obeys anyone else. Since the supreme goal is to destroy the Qezelbash com-munity and to take actions to destroy the Qezelbash's coherence, under these circumstances, it would be better to appoint someone from amongst the Sultan's palace retinue who all the Kurdish princes can obey and submit to the orders of. Thus, this work will be completed in the quickest and best way." Following this, a written order was given appointing Çavuşbaşı Mehmed Ağa, who is known as Bıyıklı Mehmed, as beylerbeyi of the province of Diyarbakir and commander the armies of Kurdistan with the purpose of taking that province back from the foreigners and bringing it back under the sovereignty [of the Sultan].