1 Ismail Beşikçi, Tunceli Kanunu () ve Dersim Jenosidi [The law 3 Report from the Consul in Trabzon, 27 September (Public Record Office. The region of Dersim, renamed Tunceli in , stood markedly at odds with the politico- Hamdi Bey, a senior official, in a report of , called the area an. Get this from a library! Dersim: Jandarma Genel Komutanlığı’nın raporu.. [Turkey. Jandarma Genel Komutanlığı.].
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Dersim Massacre, 1937-1938
Estimates of the number of Kurds living in Turkey vary from 5 to 20 million, depending on the political views of who makes the estimate, and on the definition of who is a Kurd. Turkish planes flew numerous sorties against the rebels during the rebellion. White, Primitive rebels or revolutionary modernizers?: Following the coup, this migration sped up as a result of the military pressure on the region, which impeded normal economic life.
Where necessary, minor changes were made to bring them into agreement with the administrative division of the s; drsim changes are indicated in footnotes. Sweep operations that started on September 6, were continued for 17 days. Its members are the five supreme army chiefs, the prime minister, and the ministers of defense, the interior, and foreign affairs. From September 22 through 25, the entire region to the northeast, north and northwest of Tunceli was combed by helicopters, firing at and bombing the forest and allegedly shooting sersim settlements too.
Until the s, it rapru never been brought under effective government rapory. Similar military operations have resulted in the virtual depopulation of various other Kurdish-inhabited regions in eastern Turkey.
After the establishment of the new state in Ankara and the repression of the Kurdish uprisings of the s, the attention of Ankara turned more and more to Dersim, described as a place of reactionary evil forces, of interior and exterior intrigues and hostage to tribal chiefs and religious leaders. Traffic restrictions have been rather frequent occurrences in Tunceli.
Even to the highly secularized younger generation, the Alevi identity as distinct from even equally secular persons of orthodox Sunni Muslim backgrounds remains important. The military putsch of crushed the Turkish left.
However, since the evacuation may have taken place prior to the autumn operations during which the houses or villages were demolished, we only indicate evacuation when this is explicitly mentioned in our sources as taking place during September-November Tribes from Dersim objected to losing authority and refused to pay taxes.
In the s and s, several of Turkey’s radical left movements concentrated their efforts at finding grassroots support especially on Dersim, in part because of the geography of the region, in part also because of the reputation dersimm its people for independent-mindedness.
One reason why they opted for this insecure region rather than western Turkey was probably that they did not wish to loose their animals, which constituted their major source of livelihood. The statistics presented in this report prove otherwise.
Date 20 March – November,2 January – December, After the Treaty of Lausanne had recognised the Turkish nationalist movement as the sole legitimate representative of Turkey and admitted its victory in Asia Minor, the Republic of Turkey was founded. Everywhere these displaced people are subject to police rapork and pressure to leave; none of the cities is eager to accommodate more unemployed and unemployable people; moreover, the newcomers are routinely suspected of PKK sympathies.
Dersim rebellion
Forced evictions of villagers began on a large scale in Dersim region, modern day Tunceli Province. Having crossed an international border, they legally became refugees, and therefore a little more conspicuous than the others who had been forced to leave their villages.
In spite of these restrictions on the flow of information, and the self-censorship practised by most of the Turkish press, it is clear that forced evictions have been adopted as a deliberate policy at the highest political level.
Whereas the PKK in was estimated to have four to five hundred armed men active inside Turkey’s borders, the estimate for was several tens of thousands, moving relatively freely through the mountains and communicating with their base camps and central command by radio. By the s and s, we find a surprising number of persons of Dersimi origins many of whom had grown up elsewhere active in various political parties and organizations, especially those of the left.
On November 23,Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan apologized “on behalf of the state” over the killing of over 13, people during the rebellion. The road to Nazimiye was opened for a brief time only each day. A main archive or centre of documentation of the Dersim massacre, however, does not yet exist. Rapor toptan 68 sayfadan olusmakta, A4 kagit formati ve Dersim acisindan son derece kapsamli onemli bir Rapordur. Such forced village evacuations began to occur systematically and on a large scale ininitially in the zone north of the Iraqi border but soon also in other regions where there had been PKK activity.
Ankara’s English-language daily, Turkish Daily News, and its weekly magazine edition, Turkish Probe, used to be quite informative on the Kurdish question but these media too, though less reticent than the Turkish-language mainstream papers, have become reluctant to report news that might embarrass the security forces.
It was still possible to enter the province from the north i. Another list was compiled by one of the associations of people from Tunceli living in western Turkey, again based on independent fact-finding. One factor that has made it difficult to gather systematic information on these village evacuations is that the people from any one village have not usually stayed together but have in most cases immediately dispersed.
Half a century ago Turkey deliberately adopted a policy of resettlement of Kurds as a means of speeding up their assimilation. Dersimin kutsal topraklarin da, onlar Kutsal topraklarimizda, her gun ruhumuzu cigneyen kara bir lekedirler. There had been a steady trickle of migration from the villages in southeastern and eastern Turkey to the district and provincial capitals and to the west of the country, for mainly economic reasons, well before The operations continued through most of November but the volume of evictions declined, apparently because there were few inhabited mountain villages left.
‘Resmi raporlarda Dersim katliamı: 13 bin kişi öldürüldü’ – Türkiye Haberleri – Radikal
This is done in the maps and tables that constitute the most important part of this report. He recounts in a book published in how he and people close to him lived during His family was allowed to return in Part of Kurdish rebellions. The government’s ambitious plans for constructing ‘centre villages’ to resettle the inhabitants of dispersed mountain villages and hamlets are disconcerting in this context, even though it is claimed that resettlement will be ‘voluntary’.
The first initiatives, however, came from community leaders in the region itself.