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On this day in 1937, the founder of the Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal Atatürk gave the order for the 'Dersim Massacres', which culminated in a genocide that claimed the lives of 70,000 mostly Kurdish Alevis in Turkey’s Dersim province. #TerteleDersim 
Three years earlier the Turkish government passed the "Law on Resettlement" which was part its nationwide “Turkification” of non-Turkish majority areas. The aim was to prevent a concentration of non-Turkish speaking populations, and to dissolve those that already existed.
A secret decision by the Council of Ministers on May 4, 1937 called for a "final solution". The army was to "disarm once and for all and on the spot all those who had used or were using weapons, completely destroy their villages and remove their families".
