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El Khidr in the Popular Religion of Turkey
Wendoğê Pesewe
El Khidr in the Popular Religion of Turkey
"In Turkey, Khidr...has been identified with various figures of the Old Testament, notably with Elias of whom he is considered a reincarnation, and with the Orthodox St. George, whose day, together with the associations of Lydda, he has taken over; the characteristics he has borrowed from St. George include the reputation of a dragon-slayer, which St. George himself may have borrowed from a pagan predecessor." Enter......
Dersim Forum Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians
Facing History and Ourselves is proud to announce the publication of its newest resource book Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians. In advance of its release, scholars of the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and Human Rights as well as middle and high school educators have enthusiastically received the book. Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians combines the latest scholarship on the Armenian Genocide with Facing History and Ourselves’ interdisciplinary approach to history - enabling students and teachers to make the essential connections between history and their own lives. enter....
Dersim Forum ARTICLES ON DERSIM
Auteur : Seyfi Cengiz (Enter...)
Dersim Forum
Mistrust had long existed between the Turks and Armenians and this turned to open hostility in the late 19th century when Armenians in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire started to impress upon the people the idea of Armenian self-government, under the encouragement of Russia. Soon political groups and two parties formed. The first party, developed in 1887, was called Henchak, meaning "The Bell". The second, called Dashnaktzutiun, meaning "Union", was established in 1890. During this time, Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the leader of the Ottoman empire, was promoting animosity towards the Armenians who were already being heavily discriminated against. ENTER...
Dersim Forum
WE SIDE WITH ARMENIANS
PSD`s Attitude to the Armenian Question
In its statement on April 24, Partiya Serbestiya Dersimi/Freedom Party of Dersim (PSD) takes a clear stand on Armenian question.
PSD condemns the Armenian genocide and demands the acknowledgement of it.
In addition to this, the following demand is also underlined in the statement:
"Armenians wishing to return to their historic motherland must be given the right to do so, with all their democratic rights secured".
This is a position opposed to that of nationalists groups or parties of all kind.
We will stay in solidarity with Armenians and keep calling others to do the same.PSD
Dersim Forum The Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide was carried out by the "Young Turk" government of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1916 (with subsidiaries to 1923). One and a half million Armenians were killed, out of a total of two million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.Most Armenians in America are children or grandchildren of the survivors, although there are still many survivors amongst us.
Armenians all over the world commemorate this great tragedy on April 24, because it was on that day in 1915 when 600 Armenian leaders, writers, thinkers and professionals in Constantinople were rounded up, deported and killed. Also on that day in Constantinople, 5,000 of the poorest Armenians were butchered in the streets and in their homes. (Next...)
Dersim Forum DERSIM/ZAZANA: AN INTERNAL COLONY OF THE TURKISH STATE
TURKEY IS GUILTY OF THE GENOCIDE COMMITED IN DERSIM IN 1938
Auteur - yazari: SEYFI CENGIZ Tarih, gün ve saat : 30. Nisan 2005 21:45:52:
In order to create a Turkish nation from above, Turkish nationalists waged a bloody campaign against non-Turkish and non-Muslim elements of the empire.
The First World War served as an excuse for the Young Turks, the then Turkish gouvernement, to exterminate Armenians. It was a deliberate and sustain war, in the course of which hundreds of thousands Armenians, Syrians and Greeks had been ruthlessly killed or forced into exile.
The collapse of the Ottomans had left a power vacuum, filled by another section of the Turkish nationalists, called Kemalists at a later time.
In 1937-38, i.e., at a time when world attention was focused on the Second World War, the Turkish nationalists commited another genocide. This time the victims were Dersimis, who are also known as Kızılbash or Alevis. Approximately 40.000-70.000 of them were killed and thousands were taken into exile. The Dersim Genocide of 1937-1938 was on one hand a continuation of the Kızılbash extermination of the Ottoman times and also an extermination of an ethnically distinct and separate people from Turks.
What happened back then has been handed down to the later generations by their parents and grand-parents, who witnessed the onslaught, and of whom some are still alive.
Furthermore the sites of the mass graves all over Dersim are well known and can easily be located if and when need be. The ruins of the country`s cultural heritage including churches belonged to the nations`s Christian section are still visible.
People wish to see the justice served. A search for justice has already began. A legal action against Turkey will at long last be taken at some time in the future.
We, the signatures below, demand justice and support the initiatives aiming to bring Turkey to justice.
Dersim Forum An alternative historical name for Dersim is that of Zazana, mentioned in B.C. 521 in the ol Persion inscription of Behistun. It has menaged to survive over the course of the centuries under diferent forms such as Zavzan, Gozan/Guzana, Zozan, Zauzan, Zawazan (Andzevatsik in Armenian
sources) and Sason. 13-1-2005 ...( Seyfi Cengiz) More...
