IVOS 2: ΚΕΙΜΕΝΑ,ΕΙΚΟΝΕΣ

(...) Knowing the past is important to understand the current issues,  said Associate Professor Ahmet Demirel. “ Facing the reality of Dersim can contribute to the solution of the Kurdish problem ,” he said. “We have always looked at the issue as a public security issue and with that perspective it was impossible to solve it. On the contrary, this outlook made us come to the point of offering an apology. So we need to take a lesson from history not to repeat the mistakes that made us come to the point of apologizing .” (...)    Genie out of bottle on facing up the past   Friday, November 25, 2011 BARÇIN YİNANÇ ΤΟ ΚΕΙΜΕΝΟ ΤΗΣ  ΣΥΝΕΝΤΕΥΞΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΤΗΚΕ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΦΗΜΕΡΙΔΑ: ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s apology for the killings in Dersim has let the genie out of the bottle, says an academic, adding that other dark periods of Turkish history will come under scrutiny. While the realities about Dersim have long been known, t

(...)  Τhousands  of Alevi Kurds[2] and Zazas were killed and thousands more forced into exile, depopulating the province. A key component of the Turkification process was the policy of massive population resettlement, a result of the 1934 Law on Resettlement ('İskân Kanunu' Law No.2510, 13 June 1934) [3] , a policy targeting the region of Dersim as one of its first test cases with disastrous consequences for the local population.[4] Three types of resettlement zones were defined in the resettlement law as follows: districts to be evacuated for health, economic, cultural, political and security reasons and where settlement was forbidden; districts where the population was to be transferred and resettled for the purposes of assimilation to Turkish culture; and, districts where an increase of the population having 'Turkish culture' was recommended. (...)   (1) Tens of thousands of people were slaughtered by Turkish army to suppress the Dersim Rebelli