Turkish military operations, 1937?1938
Turkish soldiers with civilians who official documents say were internally exiled; Salman Ye?ilda? said they included his sister and were executed after the photo was taken.
[1]
The
Dersim massacre
[2]
[3]
(also known as
Dersim genocide
)
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
was carried out by the
Turkish military
over the course of three operations in the
Dersim Province
(renamed
Tunceli
) against
Kurdish Alevi
rebels and civilians in 1937 and 1938. Although most Kurds in Dersim remained in their home villages,
[9]
thousands were killed and many others were expelled to other parts of Turkey.
[10]
Twenty
tons
of “
Chloracetophenon
,
Iperit
and so on” were ordered and used in the massacre.
[11]
[12]
[13]
On 23 November 2011, Turkish prime minister
Recep Tayyip Erdo?an
apologized for the massacre, describing it as "one of the most tragic events of our near history" adding that, whilst some sought to justify it as a legitimate response to events on the ground, it was in reality "an operation which was planned step by step". However, this is viewed with suspicion by some, "who see it as an opportunistic move against the main opposition party, the secular
CHP
."
[14]
Background
[
edit
]
Ottoman period
[
edit
]
Kurdish
tribes, which were
feudal
(
manorial
) communities led by
chieftains
(
agha
) during the
Ottoman
period, enjoyed a certain degree of freedom within the boundaries of the
manors
owned by the
aghas
. Local authority in these small manorial communities was in the hands of feudal lords,
tribal chieftains
and other dignitaries, who owned the land and ruled over the serfs who lived and worked on their estates.
[17]
However, the general political authority in the
provinces
, such as Dersim, was in the hands of the Ottoman government.
Early republican era
[
edit
]
Following the establishment of the
Republic of Turkey
in 1923, some
Kurdish
tribes became unhappy about certain aspects of Ataturk's "Kemalist policies", described as "the ideology of the new political elite tied to the single-party regime", imposing a policy of
Turkification
, including the removal of functionaries of "Kurdish race" in
Turkish Kurdistan
[18]
[19]
[20]
[21]
and
land reform
,
[22]
and staged armed revolts that were put down by the
Turkish military
.
Dersim had been a particularly difficult province for the Ottoman government to control, with 11 different armed rebellions between 1876 and 1923.
[23]
: 207?208
[24]
The rebellious stance of the
aghas
in Dersim continued during the early years of the Republic of Turkey. Aghas in Dersim objected to losing authority in their
manorial affairs
and refused to pay taxes; and complaints from the provincial governors in Dersim were sent to the
central government
in
Ankara
,
[25]
which favoured land reform and direct control over the country's
farmlands
, as well as
state planning
for
agricultural production
.
[22]
In an Interior Ministry report in 1926, it was considered necessary to use force against the aghas of Dersim.
[26]
On November 1, 1936, during a speech in parliament,
Ataturk
described Dersim as Turkey's most important interior problem.
[27]
Resettlement Law
[
edit
]
The
Turkification
process began with the
1934 Turkish Resettlement Law
.
[28]
Its measures included the forced relocation of people within Turkey, with the aim of promoting cultural homogeneity. In 1935, the Tunceli Law was passed to apply the Resettlement Law to the newly-named region of
Tunceli
, previously known as Dersim and populated by
Kurdish
Alevis
.
[29]
This area had a reputation for being rebellious, having been the scene of eleven separate periods of armed conflict over the previous 40 years.
[23]
[24]
"Tunceli" law
[
edit
]
The Dersim region included the
Tunceli Province
whose name was changed from Dersim to Tunceli with the "Law on Administration of the Tunceli Province" (
Tunceli Vilayetinin ?daresi Hakkında Kanun
), no. 2884 of 25 December 1935
[30]
on January 4, 1936.
[31]
Fourth General Inspectorate
[
edit
]
In order to consolidate its authority in the process of Turkification of
religious and ethnic minorities
,
[32]
[33]
the
Turkish Grand National Assembly
passed Law No. 1164 on 25 June 1927
[34]
which allowed the state to establish Inspectorates-General.
[35]
Following the First Inspectorate-General (1 January 1928,
Diyarbakır Province
),
[36]
the Second Inspectorate-General (19 February 1934,
Edirne Province
)
[37]
and the Third Inspectorate-General (25 August 1935,
Erzurum Province
),
[38]
[39]
the
Fourth Inspectorate-General
(
Dorduncu Umumi Mufetti?lik
) was established in January 1936, in the traditional Dersim region, which includes
Tunceli Province
,
Elazı? Province
and
Bingol Province
.
[40]
The Fourth Inspectorate-General was governed by a "Governor Commander" within a military authority. He was given wide-ranging authority in juridical, military and civilian matters. He also had the power to resettle or exile people who lived in the region.
[35]
To quell the rebellion, the Turkish Interior Minister
Sukru Kaya
ordered that boys and girls of the Dersim region were to be educated in boarding schools outside of the Dersim region.
[41]
In those schools, they were to be Turkified and following their graduation, married off to each other.
[41]
Women were to be Turkified at an earlier stage than men as women lacked contact with the outside world and if not Turkified, were unable to pass the Turkishness on to their children.
[41]
In September 1937, the
Elazig Girls' Institute
in which the aim was to raise Turkish women out of Kurdish girls was established in
Elazıg
.
[41]
On 1 November 1936, during a speech in the
Grand National Assembly of Turkey
,
Ataturk
described the situation in Dersim as Turkey's most important internal problem.
[42]
The rebellion
[
edit
]
A 1937 map of Dersim showing the central district,
Hozat
After the "Tunceli" Law, the
Turkish military
built observation posts in certain districts. Following public meetings in January 1937, a letter of protest against the law was written to be sent to the local governor. According to Kurdish sources, the emissaries of the letter were arrested and executed. In May, a group of local people ambushed a police convoy in response.
[43]
Meeting at Halbori cells
[
edit
]
Seyid Riza
, the chieftain of Yukarı Abbas U?a?ı, sent his followers to the Haydaran, Demenan, Yusufan, and Kurey?an tribes to make an alliance.
[44]
According to Turkish authorities, on March 20?21, 1937, at 23:00 hrs, the Demenan and Haydaran tribes broke a bridge connecting Pah and Kahmut in the Harcik Valley. The Inspector General gave the order to prepare for action to the 2nd Mobile Gendarmerie Battalion at
Pulumur
, the 3rd Mobile Gendarmerie Battalion at Pulur, the 9th Gendarmier Battalion at
Mazkirt
, and the Mobile Gendarmerie Regiment at
Hozat
, and sent one infantry company of the 9th Mobile Gendarmier Battalion to Pah.
[44]
Turkish military operations
[
edit
]
Sabiha Gokcen
holding a bomb before the bombardment operation over Dersim with her
Breguet 19
Sabiha Gokcen
and her colleagues in front of a Breguet 19, 1937?38
Local people of Dersim, 1938
Around 25,000 troops were deployed to quell the rebellion. This task was substantially completed by the summer and the leaders of the rebellion, including tribal leader Seyid Riza, were hanged. However, remnants of the rebel forces continued to resist and the number of troops in the region was doubled. The area was also bombed from the air.
[23]
The rebels continued to resist until they ran out of ammunition, in late 1938, by which time the region was devastated.
[45]
According to Osman Pamuko?lu, a general in Turkish Army in the 1990s, Ataturk had given the operational order himself.
[46]
1937
[
edit
]
First Dersim Operation
[
edit
]
On September 10?12, 1937,
Seyid Riza
came to the government building of the
Erzincan Province
for peace talks and was arrested.
[47]
On the next day, he was transferred to the headquarters of the General Inspectorate at
Elazı?
and hanged with 6 (or 10) of his fellows on November 15?18, 1937
[48]
Ihsan Sabri Ca?layangil
, who would later become foreign minister,
[49]
arranged the trials and hanging of the leaders of the rebellion and some of their sons.
[50]
They were:
- Seyit Rıza
- Resik Huseyin (Seyit Rıza's son, 16 years old)
- Seyit Huseyin (the chieftain of Kurey?an-Seyhan tribe)
- Fındık Aga (Yusfanlı Kamer Aga's son)
- Hasan Aga (of the Demenan tribe, Cebrail A?a's son)
- Hasan (a Kurey?an tribesman Ulkiye's son)
- Ali Aga (Mirza Ali's son)
On November 17, 1937,
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
came to
Pertek
to take part in the opening ceremony for the
Singec Bridge
.
[51]
[52]
In his journey to Elazı? the same month, he was accompanied by the Minister of the Interior
?ukru Kaya
and
Sabiha Gokcen
.
[53]
1938
[
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]
Second Dersim Operation
[
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]
The prime minister,
Celal Bayar
(in office: October 25, 1937 ? January 25, 1939) had agreed to an attack on the Dersim rebels.
[54]
The operation started on January 2, 1938 and finished on August 7, 1938.
Third Dersim Operation
[
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Sweep operations
[
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]
Sweep operations that started on September 6, were continued for 17 days.
[55]
Aerial operations
[
edit
]
Turkish planes flew numerous sorties against the rebels during the rebellion. Among the pilots was
Kemal Ataturk
's adopted daughter,
Sabiha Gokcen
, the first female fighter pilot. A report of the General Staff mentioned the "serious damage" that had been caused by her 50 kg bomb, upon a group of fleeing
bandits
.
[56]
Muhsin Batur, engaged in operations for about two months over Dersim, stated in his memoirs that he wanted to avoid talking about this part of his life.
[57]
[
better source needed
]
Kurdish leader
Nuri Dersimi
claimed that the Turkish air force bombed the district with
poisonous gas
in 1938.
[58]
Massacres
[
edit
]
According to an official report of the Fourth General Inspectorate, 13,160 civilians were killed by the Turkish Army and 11,818 people were taken into exile, depopulating the province.
[59]
According to a claim by
Nuri Dersimi
, many tribesmen were shot dead after surrendering, and women and children were locked into haysheds which were then set on fire.
[60]
Christian Gerlach
reports that 30,000
Kurds
were massacred by the
Turkish Army
after the rebellion.
[61]
Huseyin Aygun
, a jurist author, wrote in his book
Dersim 1938 and Obligatory Settlement
: "The rebellion was clearly caused by provocation. It caused the most violent tortures that were ever seen in a rebellion in the Republican years. Those who didn't take part in the rebellion, and the families of the rebels, were also tortured."
[62]
Deportations
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]
Around 3,000 people were forcibly deported from Dersim.
[29]
On the 4th of May 1938 a Turkish Cabinet decision resolved that Turkish military forces which had previously been massed in the area would attack
Nazimiye
, Kecigezek Sin and Karaoglan. "
This time all the people in the area will be collected and deported out of the area and this collection operation will attack the villages without warning and collect the people. To do this, we will collect the people as well as the arms they have. At the moment, we are ready to deport 2,000 people."
In the same decision ordering to respond to any resistance by rendering those "
incapable of movement on the spot and until the end
",
?smail Be?ikci
concludes this meant to kill them, along with orders to destroy their homes and deporting those remaining.
[63]
Death toll
[
edit
]
The contemporary British estimate of the number of deaths was 40,000, although McDowall writes that this could be exaggerated.
[23]
It has been suggested that the total number of deaths may be 7,594,
[29]
over 10,000.
[64]
In 2011, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an acknowledged that 13,806 citizens had been murdered and 11,683 individuals displaced?these figures were based on contemporary Turkish documents.
[65]
Turkish Kurdish anthropologist Dil?a Deniz estimates the number of deaths to be between 46.000 to 63.000.
[66]
[67]
[68]
[69]
[70]
[71]
[72]
[73]
Historian
Hans-Lukas Kieser
writes that 40,000 is implausibly high.
[74]
Historian Annika Torne estimates 32,000 to 70,000 dead as a result of massacres,
[75]
citing as sources among others Nicole Watts (Relocating Dersim: Turkish State-Building and Kurdish Resistance, 1931?1938, in: New Perspectives on Turkey 23 (2000), S. 5?30.)
Historiography
[
edit
]
Turkish government
[
edit
]
Turkish state's reaction to the uprising was publicly justified as "disciplining and punishment" (
tedip ve tenkil
). It contributed to a Kemalist perception of Dersim and its populace, which characterises the province as unruly and defends violent state intervention. This narrative is encountered in Na?it Hakkı Ulu?'s book
The Feudal Lord and Dersim
(
Derebeyi ve Dersim
), which depicts Dersim as a security threat to the Turkish Republic.
[76]
It was not until 2009 that the massacre was publicly acknowledged, and in recent years, oral history has been used as a method to study anti-civilian violence excluded from the official history of the event.
[77]
On November 23, 2011,
Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
apologized "on behalf of the state" over the killing of over 13,000 people during the rebellion.
[78]
His remarks were widely commented on both inside and outside Turkey.
[79]
His comments were pointedly directed at opposition leader
Kemal Kılıcdaro?lu
(who in fact is from
Tunceli
). Erdogan reminded his audience that Kılıcdaro?lu's party, the
CHP
, had been in power at the time of the massacre, then the only political party in Turkey.
[14]
He described the massacre as "one of the most tragic events of our near history" saying that, whilst some sought to justify it as a legitimate response to events on the ground, it was in reality "an operation which was planned step by step".
[80]
Genocide debate
[
edit
]
The policy of population resettlement under the
1934 Law on Resettlement
was a key component of the Turkification process that began to be implemented first with the
Armenian genocide
in 1915 as Turkey transitioned from a
pluralistic
, multi-ethnic society to a "unidimensional Turkish nation-state".
?smail Be?ikci
has argued that the Turkish government actions in Dersim was
genocide
.
[81]
Martin van Bruinessen
has argued that the actions of the government were not genocide, under
international law
, because they were not aimed at the extermination of a people, but at resettlement and suppression.
[82]
Van Bruinessen has instead talked of an
ethnocide
directed against the local language and identity.
[83]
According to Van Bruinessen, the 1934 law created "the legal framework for a policy of ethnocide." Dersim was one of the first territories where this policy was applied.
[84]
Historian Annika Thorne, in her study of
historical memory
in Dersim, concludes that the 1938 massacres and forced assimilation amounts to genocide.
[85]
According to Dilsa Deniz, convincing evidence points towards a genocide.
[86]
In March 2011, a Turkish court ruled that the actions of the Turkish government in Dersim could not be considered genocide according to the law because they were not directed systematically against an ethnic group.
[87]
See also
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