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Relocating Dersim: Turkish State-Building and Kurdish Resistance, 1931–1938

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Nicole Watts*
Affiliation:
Interdisciplinary Near and Middle East Studies Program, University of Washington, Seattle

Extract

According to the deputy chief of the General Staff and other Turkish officers, it is hoped eventually to make the Tunçeli [Tunceli] region into a “second Switzerland,” as it is extremely beautiful. It appears to me, however, that its inaccessibility and the difficulties which visitors experience while travelling in Turkey will be considerable obstacles to the realisation of this dream.

A. Ross, Military attaché to the British representative in Turkey, 5 September 1938

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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2000

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