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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Dersim Massacre Comes Up as Referendum Nears in Turkey

"Dersim Massacre Comes Up as Referendum Nears in Turkey
26/08/2010 11:47:00 By WLADIMIR VAN WILGENBURG

Turkey’s Dersim massacre happened in the late 1930s has once again become part of the political struggle of the “yes” and “no” campaigns on the referendum for Turkey’s constitutional reform package that will take place on September 12, with the government party accusing the opposition of being responsible of the massacres against Kurds and Alevis in the 1930s."

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