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Line 1: [[File:Wilayah_Dersim_1937.png\|thumb\|230px\|Tunceli 1938]] The '''Dêrsîm ~~Events~~Genocide''' is a name given to violent suppression during the [[Dersim rebellion]] in the summer of 1937 and the spring of 1938 of the local population of Dersim, now called [[Tunceli Province]] (in [[Turkey]]). Thousands of Alevi [[Kurds]]<ref>[http://www.let.uu.nl/~Martin.vanBruinessen/personal/publications/Dersim_rebellion.pdf The Suppression of the Dersim Rebellion in Turkey (1937-38) Page 4]</ref> were killed and thousands more were taken 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, a policy targeting the region of Dersim as one of its first test cases with disastrous consequences for the local population<ref>George J Andreopoulos, ''Genocide'', page 11</ref>. In 2008, the [[Kurdistan Workers' Party\|PKK]], a Kurdish terrorist organization responsible for 30.000 killings in south-eastern Turkey,<ref>http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/crt/2006/82738.htm</ref> organized a "Dersim genocide conference" in which it reached the conclusion that Turkey was guilty of so-called 'genocide' not only of Alevis, but also [[Armenians]], [[Assyrian people\|Assyrians]], [[Greeks]], non-Alevi [[Kurds]] and [[Jews]].<ref>[http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=34808&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=887bf4a0cb].</ref>

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