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Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
June 30 2013
General Staff sends all documents on 1938 Dersim massacre to Parliament
The General Staff has sent all the documents that it has concerning
the violent massacre against Alevi rebels in the eastern province of
Tunceli, formerly known as Dersim, to a parliamentary commission, the
head of the commission said.
Head of Parliament's Petition Commission Mehmet DaniÅ?, also Çanakkale
deputy of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), told Anadolu
Agency on June 30 that the commission most recently received 5,000
pages of documents from the General Staff, which increased the total
number of pages of documents about the issue handed over by the
General Staff to 46,000.
Including the ones from the General Staff, the commission has so far
received almost 10,000 pages of documents concerning the Dersim
rebellion that occurred between 1936 and 1939 and resulted in the
death of 13,800 people.
The documents from the General Staff include maps, private letters,
official dispatches, intelligence reports, assessments, daily reports,
troop transfers, lists of fugitives, arms collected in Dersim,
propaganda activities, public order incidents in the related region,
security precautions and separatism and espionage activities.
Information about the capture of Seyit Rıza, the leader of the
uprising in Dersim and chief of an Alevi-Zaza tribe in the region, as
well as visits of then-prime minister Ä°smet Ä°nönü and then-chief of
general staff Fevzi Çakmak to the region are also cases within the
documents.
Documents which were handed over by the General Staff to the
Parliament in 2012 revealed that the Turkish army launched a black
propaganda campaign against Seyit Rıza. Among other things, the
campaign claimed that he was uncircumcised, and also tried to dissuade
support from the rebel leader by convincing the public that he was
originally Armenian.
`Prisoners who were sent to western provinces will be executed and the
uncircumcised boys will be given Armenian names and banished to
Christian countries. Unmarried girls of Tunceli will be married to
Turkish men and Turkish girls will be married to the men of Tunceli.
People of Tunceli will be replaced in the following spring month. The
fact that hanged Seyit Rıza was uncircumcised would look unpleasant in
the eyes of the public and that has become an inspiration and
propaganda material for opportunists...' read one of the documents
issued on Dec. 30, 1937.
Another document issued on Sep 11, 1937, said Rıza had surrendered
with his two abettors to the military officials. The document said
Rıza was exhausted the day he surrendered and demanded to testify the
following day.
June/30/2013
June 30 2013
General Staff sends all documents on 1938 Dersim massacre to Parliament
The General Staff has sent all the documents that it has concerning
the violent massacre against Alevi rebels in the eastern province of
Tunceli, formerly known as Dersim, to a parliamentary commission, the
head of the commission said.
Head of Parliament's Petition Commission Mehmet DaniÅ?, also Çanakkale
deputy of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), told Anadolu
Agency on June 30 that the commission most recently received 5,000
pages of documents from the General Staff, which increased the total
number of pages of documents about the issue handed over by the
General Staff to 46,000.
Including the ones from the General Staff, the commission has so far
received almost 10,000 pages of documents concerning the Dersim
rebellion that occurred between 1936 and 1939 and resulted in the
death of 13,800 people.
The documents from the General Staff include maps, private letters,
official dispatches, intelligence reports, assessments, daily reports,
troop transfers, lists of fugitives, arms collected in Dersim,
propaganda activities, public order incidents in the related region,
security precautions and separatism and espionage activities.
Information about the capture of Seyit Rıza, the leader of the
uprising in Dersim and chief of an Alevi-Zaza tribe in the region, as
well as visits of then-prime minister Ä°smet Ä°nönü and then-chief of
general staff Fevzi Çakmak to the region are also cases within the
documents.
Documents which were handed over by the General Staff to the
Parliament in 2012 revealed that the Turkish army launched a black
propaganda campaign against Seyit Rıza. Among other things, the
campaign claimed that he was uncircumcised, and also tried to dissuade
support from the rebel leader by convincing the public that he was
originally Armenian.
`Prisoners who were sent to western provinces will be executed and the
uncircumcised boys will be given Armenian names and banished to
Christian countries. Unmarried girls of Tunceli will be married to
Turkish men and Turkish girls will be married to the men of Tunceli.
People of Tunceli will be replaced in the following spring month. The
fact that hanged Seyit Rıza was uncircumcised would look unpleasant in
the eyes of the public and that has become an inspiration and
propaganda material for opportunists...' read one of the documents
issued on Dec. 30, 1937.
Another document issued on Sep 11, 1937, said Rıza had surrendered
with his two abettors to the military officials. The document said
Rıza was exhausted the day he surrendered and demanded to testify the
following day.
June/30/2013