bigOz wrote:How about the Turks of Trachia? They suffered more in the hands of past Greek governments than Kurds did in Turkey. I reckon an autonomous state should also be allocated for the Turks in North-Eastern Greece in return for what they had gone through during the last century!
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Not true, BigOz!
WW1 era ..... According to Shaller and Zimmerer in the Journal of Genocide Research, the leadership of Young Turks planned to eliminate Kurdish identity by deporting Kurds from their ancestral land and displacing them in small groups[20]. In this era, the Kurds suffered from deportations and death marches and forced Turkification[20]. The Young Turks partially implemented these plans in WWI and 700,000 Kurds were forcibly removed where approximately 350,000 of these displaces Kurds perished[20]. These Kurds were forced by the young Turks to go on death march resembling the Armenian marches[20] which was part of a plan to eliminate Kurdish identity[20].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds_in_Turkey
Dersim Ethnocide
In 1937–1938, approximately 65,000–70,000 Alevi Kurds[21][22][23] were killed and thousands were taken into exile. A key component of the turkification process was the policy of massive population resettlement. Referring to the main policy document in this context, 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[24]. The Dersim ethnocide[21] is often confused with the Dersim Rebellion that took place during these events. Today, not much is left of Derim's distinctive culture and the majority of its people live in the diaspora.[21]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds_in_Turkey
1980s onwards.....Much of the countryside in the southeast was depopulated, with Kurdish civilians moving to local defensible centers such as Diyarbakır, Van, and Şırnak, as well as to the cities of western Turkey and even to western Europe. The causes of the depopulation included PKK atrocities against Kurdish clans they could not control, the poverty of the southeast, and the Turkish state's military operations.[16] Human Rights Watch has documented many instances where the Turkish military forcibly evacuated villages, destroying houses and equipment to prevent the return of the inhabitants . An estimated 3,000 Kurdish villages in Turkey were virtually wiped from the map, representing the displacement of more than 378,000 people.[17]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds_in_Turkey
