The Turkish Armed Forces General Staff sent to the country’s parliament 10,650 documents, with respect to the 1937-1938 Dersim (today’s Tunceli) Massacres, where the Armed Forces’ operations at the time are presented in detail.        

According to one of these documents, Turkey’s fourth Chief Inspector Alpdogan writes the following in his order sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs on December 30, 1937: “Put Armenian names to the uncircumcised boys and deport them to European countries,” Star daily of Turkey reports.   

The Turkish authorities had quelled the Dersim uprising with bloodshed and eradicated thousands of villages. In line with different sources, up to 100,000 people lost their lives during the Dersim Massacres.

Also, thousands of 1915 Armenian Genocide survivors, who had found shelter in Dersim’s villages, were subjected to a second genocide in 1938.