Word: dersim
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...eyed tribesmen scattered in mud huts through three countries-Turkey, Iran, Iraq-have had battle lust for 3,000 years, have never knuckled under to non-Kurdish governments. From Istanbul last week came news of probably the biggest riot of Turkey's Kurds since the War. Operating from Dersim about 200 miles south of the Black Sea, 300 miles west of the Turkish-Iran border, Kurdish tribesmen with an army of 5,000 demanded that Dictator Mustafa Kamâl Atatürk should establish no military garrisons in Kurdish territory, that Kurds should be allowed to keep their...
...news of this bloody Kurdish affray- the climax, according to Prime Minister Ismet Inonü, of "659 recent disturbances in the Dersim region"-was carefully kept out of Turkey's press until the last brigand had been sent flying...
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