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TURKISH OPPOSITIONIST SAYS ERDOGAN, ARMENIAN DIASPORA'S MENTALITY SIMILAR
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 23, 2011 - 14:29 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's active
involvement in a debate over the 1938 Dersim killings is a reflection
of his underlying intention to discredit the legacy of Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk, Turkey's main opposition leader has said.
"Your intention is to settle scores with Ataturk, to dispose of
the Republic. We are aware of that," Kemal Kilicdaroglu said at the
parliamentary group meeting of his Republican People's Party (CHP).
Kilicdaroglu spoke shortly after Erdogan said he would disclose
documents exposing the CHP's role in a military crackdown on a 1938
Alevi rebellion in Dersim, now Tunceli, in which thousands perished.
Erdogan challenged Kilicdaroglu, himself an Alevi from Tunceli, to
face up to his party's responsibility for the killings which took
place at a time when the CHP ruled Turkey in a single-party regime,
Hurriyet Daily News reported.
"The Prime Minister and Armenian Diaspora are pretty similar in their
mentality," Kilicdaroglu said, noting he won't be surprised to see
Erdogan introduce Genocide issue in Turkish parliament agenda.
Dersim Massacre is a name given to the violent suppression during the
Dersim Rebellion in the summer of 1937 and the spring of 1938 of the
local population of Dersim, now called Tunceli Province (in Turkey).
Tens of thousands of Alevi Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and
others were killed and thousands more forced into exile.
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 23, 2011 - 14:29 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's active
involvement in a debate over the 1938 Dersim killings is a reflection
of his underlying intention to discredit the legacy of Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk, Turkey's main opposition leader has said.
"Your intention is to settle scores with Ataturk, to dispose of
the Republic. We are aware of that," Kemal Kilicdaroglu said at the
parliamentary group meeting of his Republican People's Party (CHP).
Kilicdaroglu spoke shortly after Erdogan said he would disclose
documents exposing the CHP's role in a military crackdown on a 1938
Alevi rebellion in Dersim, now Tunceli, in which thousands perished.
Erdogan challenged Kilicdaroglu, himself an Alevi from Tunceli, to
face up to his party's responsibility for the killings which took
place at a time when the CHP ruled Turkey in a single-party regime,
Hurriyet Daily News reported.
"The Prime Minister and Armenian Diaspora are pretty similar in their
mentality," Kilicdaroglu said, noting he won't be surprised to see
Erdogan introduce Genocide issue in Turkish parliament agenda.
Dersim Massacre is a name given to the violent suppression during the
Dersim Rebellion in the summer of 1937 and the spring of 1938 of the
local population of Dersim, now called Tunceli Province (in Turkey).
Tens of thousands of Alevi Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and
others were killed and thousands more forced into exile.