Ibrahim Hananu (1869-1935) was the leader of the Hananu Revolt of 1920-21 in Syria against France in the aftermath of World War I.
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Ibrahim Hananu was born in 1869 in Kafr Takharim, Ottoman Syria. to a landholding family of Sunni Muslim Kurds, and he studied as a lawyer at a university in Constantinople. He joined the Committee of Union and Progress after the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, but in 1916 he joined the future King Faisal I of Iraq during the Arab Revolt. In 1920, at the same time as the Turkish War of Independence, he declared the Hananu Revolt against France, and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk helped his forces in fighting the French Army in Cilicia and southern Anatolia. However, the Franklin-Bouillon Agreement in October 1921 made peace between France and Turkey and the revolt was forced to end, and Hananu remained active in the Syrian national movement until his death in 1935.