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TURKEY MAY BE KEPT ACCOUNTABLE FOR DERSIM GENOCIDE
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 13, 2012 - 21:11 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Secret materials on 1937-1938 massacres on Tunceli
Province of Turkey, earlier known as Dersim are being discussed in
the country's parliament. The military operation of the Turkish army
claimed lives of fifteen thousand people, mostly Armenians and Kurds.
Events in current Tunceli Province of Turkey are known as "Dersim
process". In 1937 Turkish central authorities clashed with local
clans. The confrontation further developed into an uprising that was
severely suppressed by the troops.
Commission to investigate Dersim necessitated submission of collected
documents to Turkish Parliament, which has set a special committee.
Prime Ministers' administration was the first to react to the demand.
About two thousand documents were submitted that may shed light on the
fate of 15 thousand people that survived the military confrontation
in 1937 and were forced out of Dersim.
Commission to investigate Dersim process expedited the activity.
Subcommittee that first of all collects documents from Presidential
administration, Ministry of the Inferior, Ministry of Culture
and General staff, requested for archival materials on 1937-1938
massacres. Servicemen pledged to send the necessary data as soon as
they find them in the archives.
The President's administration has 103 documents on Dersim massacres.
One of the documents sent to Ministry of Interior dated June 15, 1938
for Fevzi Cakmak, renders leaving 14 local inhabitants in the region
inadmissible. It says that 12485 people were transformed at the time
the document appeared. Archives convey records of negotiations between
the leader of the uprising in Dersim Sayid Riza and the authorities.
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 13, 2012 - 21:11 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Secret materials on 1937-1938 massacres on Tunceli
Province of Turkey, earlier known as Dersim are being discussed in
the country's parliament. The military operation of the Turkish army
claimed lives of fifteen thousand people, mostly Armenians and Kurds.
Events in current Tunceli Province of Turkey are known as "Dersim
process". In 1937 Turkish central authorities clashed with local
clans. The confrontation further developed into an uprising that was
severely suppressed by the troops.
Commission to investigate Dersim necessitated submission of collected
documents to Turkish Parliament, which has set a special committee.
Prime Ministers' administration was the first to react to the demand.
About two thousand documents were submitted that may shed light on the
fate of 15 thousand people that survived the military confrontation
in 1937 and were forced out of Dersim.
Commission to investigate Dersim process expedited the activity.
Subcommittee that first of all collects documents from Presidential
administration, Ministry of the Inferior, Ministry of Culture
and General staff, requested for archival materials on 1937-1938
massacres. Servicemen pledged to send the necessary data as soon as
they find them in the archives.
The President's administration has 103 documents on Dersim massacres.
One of the documents sent to Ministry of Interior dated June 15, 1938
for Fevzi Cakmak, renders leaving 14 local inhabitants in the region
inadmissible. It says that 12485 people were transformed at the time
the document appeared. Archives convey records of negotiations between
the leader of the uprising in Dersim Sayid Riza and the authorities.