{"id":144265,"date":"2011-11-25T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T09:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=144265"},"modified":"2011-11-25T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T09:33:20","slug":"turkey-chp-leader-fails-to-apologize-for-dersim-calls-for-opening-state-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/25\/turkey-chp-leader-fails-to-apologize-for-dersim-calls-for-opening-state-archives.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: CHP Leader Fails to Apologize for Dersim, Calls for Opening State Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the face of a call from the prime minister for his party to apologize for a massacre in Dersim during the 1930s, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu on Thursday failed to an offer apology, but called on the government to release documents from the state archives that pertain to Dersim, Today’s Zaman<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n

K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu responded to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, who on Wednesday apologized for the Dersim Massacre<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> on behalf of the Turkish state but accused the CHP of being the actual culprit and called on the party to offer an apology as well. The CHP leader said during a party meeting on Thursday that Erdo\u011fan’s apology was not enough and asked the prime minister to open state archives.<\/p>\n

However, K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu stopped short of apologizing for the massacre on behalf of the CHP, which was part of the single-party government at the time. \u201cWhy are not you opening the archives of the Turkish Republic? An earlier proposal we filed [to open the archives] in 2002 was rejected by the [Justice and Development Party] AK Party. You have to be sincere in facing up to history. I had also asked the prime minister to offer an apology [for Dersim]. He then said he could not. Anyway, he apologized yesterday [Wednesday]. But offering an apology is not enough,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Referring to some archival documents regarding the massacre in Dersim and which were made public by Erdo\u011fan on Wednesday, K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu said the documents were not unknown to the public. \u201cOpening state archives is not enough, as well,\u201d K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7daro\u011flu continued, saying the state should return the property of people from Dersim who were deported. \u201c[The people of] Dersim will not let the AK Party exploit their pain. They cannot,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The much-debated Dersim massacre concerns the deaths of tens of thousands of Alevis at the hands of the military in 1937. According to a document Erdo\u011fan revealed on Wednesday, which was dated 1939, a total of 13,806 people were killed in operations carried out against the people of Dersim between 1936 and 1939.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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