  Turkey may be kept accountable for Dersim Genocide  March 13, 2012 - 21:11 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Secret materials on 1937-1938 massacres on Tunceli Province of Turkey, earlier known as Dersim are being discussed in the country’s parliament. The military operation of the Turkish army claimed lives of fifteen thousand people, mostly Armenians and Kurds. Events in current Tunceli Province of Turkey are known as “Dersim process”. In 1937 Turkish central authorities clashed with local clans. The confrontation further developed into an uprising that was severely suppressed by the troops. Commission to investigate Dersim necessitated submission of collected documents to Turkish Parliament, which has set a special committee. Prime Ministers’ administration was the first to react to the demand. About two thousand documents were submitted that may shed light on the fate of 15 thousand people that survived the military confrontation in 1937 and were forced out of Dersim. Commission to investigate Dersim process expedited the activity. Subcommittee that first of all collects documents from Presidential administration, Ministry of the Inferior, Ministry of Culture and General staff, requested for archival materials on 1937-1938 massacres. Servicemen pledged to send the necessary data as soon as they find them in the archives. The President’s administration has 103 documents on Dersim massacres. One of the documents sent to Ministry of Interior dated June 15, 1938 for Fevzi Çakmak, renders leaving 14 local inhabitants in the region inadmissible. It says that 12485 people were transformed at the time the document appeared. Archives convey records of negotiations between the leader of the uprising in Dersim Sayid Riza and the authorities.
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