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Dersim massacre's Armenian survivor demands apology from Turkish
parliament for her suffering
NEWS.AM
May 12, 2012 | 14:11
Fatma Yavuz, an 80-year-old Armenian survivor of the 1937-1938 Dersim
(today's Tunceli, Turkey) Massacres, sent a letter to the Turkish
parliament's subcommittee on the Dersim affair, wrote about the
suffering she endured, and demanded an apology for all this.
The elderly Armenian told that he was given to a Turkish family,
during the Dersim Massacres, and this family was very cruel to her.
`I learned only in 1995 that the fact of my being Armenian was kept
secret for 57 years, and I learned my real [Armenian] name at the age
of 78,' Fatma Yavuz wrote in her letter, and demanded that their
seized lands be returned, her relatives be found, and a formal apology
be made.
To note, Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan had stated that, if
necessary, he would apologize and is apologizing for the Dersim
Massacres, on behalf of the state.
The Turkish authorities had quelled the Dersim uprising with bloodshed
and eradicated thousands of villages. In line with different sources,
up to 100,000 people lost their lives during the Dersim Massacres.
Also, thousands of 1915 Armenian Genocide survivors, who had found
shelter in Dersim's villages, were subjected to a second genocide in
1938.
parliament for her suffering
NEWS.AM
May 12, 2012 | 14:11
Fatma Yavuz, an 80-year-old Armenian survivor of the 1937-1938 Dersim
(today's Tunceli, Turkey) Massacres, sent a letter to the Turkish
parliament's subcommittee on the Dersim affair, wrote about the
suffering she endured, and demanded an apology for all this.
The elderly Armenian told that he was given to a Turkish family,
during the Dersim Massacres, and this family was very cruel to her.
`I learned only in 1995 that the fact of my being Armenian was kept
secret for 57 years, and I learned my real [Armenian] name at the age
of 78,' Fatma Yavuz wrote in her letter, and demanded that their
seized lands be returned, her relatives be found, and a formal apology
be made.
To note, Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan had stated that, if
necessary, he would apologize and is apologizing for the Dersim
Massacres, on behalf of the state.
The Turkish authorities had quelled the Dersim uprising with bloodshed
and eradicated thousands of villages. In line with different sources,
up to 100,000 people lost their lives during the Dersim Massacres.
Also, thousands of 1915 Armenian Genocide survivors, who had found
shelter in Dersim's villages, were subjected to a second genocide in
1938.