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==External links== |
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*[http://www.let.uu.nl/~Martin.vanBruinessen/personal/publications/Dersim_rebellion.pdf The Suppression of the Dersim Rebellion in Turkey (1937-38) by Martin Van Bruinessen] |
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*[http://www.guengl.org/showPage.jsp?ID=6762&PR=0&AREA=5337&GRP=0&SITE=0&CH=1&TYPE=1&FILENAME=showPage.jsp&INTERNAL=1&ISSUE=0&POPUP=0 Dersim 1938 - 70 Years After] |
*[http://www.guengl.org/showPage.jsp?ID=6762&PR=0&AREA=5337&GRP=0&SITE=0&CH=1&TYPE=1&FILENAME=showPage.jsp&INTERNAL=1&ISSUE=0&POPUP=0 Dersim 1938 - 70 Years After] |
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*[http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=157244 Dersim on Turkey's ‘genocide' list] |
*[http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=157244 Dersim on Turkey's ‘genocide' list] |
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Revision as of 22:27, 1 January 2009
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Dersim in turkish Kurdistan, in 1937-1938, approximately 40.000-70.000 Alevi Kurds was killed and thousands were taken into exile, Dersim was depopulated. A key component of the turkification process was the policy of massive poulation resettlement. Referring to the main policy document in this context, the 1934 law on resettlement, a policy targeting the region of Dersim as one of its first test cases, with disastrous consequences for the local population. [1]
The Dersim Genocide was on one hand a continuation of the Kızılbash extermination of the Ottoman times and also an extermination of an ethnically distinct and separate people from Turks.
References
- ^ Genocide - George J Andreopoulos page 11
External links
- The Suppression of the Dersim Rebellion in Turkey (1937-38) by Martin Van Bruinessen
- Dersim 1938 - 70 Years After
- Dersim on Turkey's ‘genocide' list
- EU-Parliament hosts Armenian and Kurdish conferences on genocides
- Justice for the victims of genocide and prevention of further crimes against humanity