Dersim

Dersim. In the latter years of the Ottoman Empire, the state's efforts to put an end to Dersim's de facto autonomy peaked under the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (r The province of Dersim (or Dêsim) was renamed Tunceli in 1935, as was the settlement of Kalan, which became the province's administrative center in 1938


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It was formerly known as Dersim Province, but changed its name in 1935 after a state of emergency and a massacre of Kurds. Tunceli Province is a Kurdish-majority province in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey

The people of Dersim also helped the Armenians to escape the mass killings committed by the Young Turks' government. The article covers the background, the operations, the casualties, the aftermath and the controversies of the massacre. Dersim is a region in eastern Turkey predominately populated by Alevi Kurds, which is one of the reasons why it has been otherized by the central state authorities since before the founding of the Republic of Turkey in 1923

. It is a disaster that should now be questioned with courage Tunceli Province is a Kurdish-majority province in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey

. The people of Dersim were Alevi Muslim (Shia Muslims) that were unwanted in Turkish nationalism The article explores the history, the resistance, and the current situation of the Alevi Kurds in Dersim under Erdoğan's rule.