69 million page views

another views of ataturk are Alevi Massacre and Alevi post modern slavery exile to serve elit turks houses as alevi maids

Reader comment on item: Atatürk

Submitted by Can (Turkey), May 4, 2012 at 18:59

Ataturk vs Hitler- Dersim Massacre?

The Dersim Massacre took place in 1937 and 1938 in Dersim, now called Tunceli Province, in Turkey. It was the outcome of a Turkish military campaign against the alevis by local ethnic minority groups against Turkey's Resettlement Law of 1934. Thousands of Alevi Kurds died and many others were internally displaced due to the conflict.

The contemporary British estimate of the number of deaths was 40,000.

Why in the world we all alevis worship Ataturk as an alevi avatar(messiah)? Because the only minority group were Alevis in Turkey that really, really needs secular state revolution which would have been given us by minoirty intellectuals of Ottoman Empire.Though Modern Turkey were not totally secular and is not as well today.

Alevis worship him as if he was messiah.Yes, he was a half messiah and a half Hitler for Alevis.He and the other high leveled officers was not totally vegetarian.

Hitlers teacher was a messiah and the jihadist killer Ali in Alevite was just a mask figure for us too.Ali replaced Ataturk.I hope that Recep the Islamic Leader will not be next our avatar :)

We alevis need to restructure our real roots by helping all of you?!. Otherwise we continue loving and thinking our killers as messiah.

Submitting....

Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments".

Reader comments (2) on this item

Title Commenter Date Thread
another views of ataturk are Alevi Massacre and Alevi post modern slavery exile to serve elit turks houses as alevi maids [211 words]CanMay 4, 2012 18:59195433
Question [28 words]ArdaSep 18, 2005 11:0625998

Follow Daniel Pipes

Facebook   Twitter   RSS   Join Mailing List

All materials by Daniel Pipes on this site: © 1968-2024 Daniel Pipes. daniel.pipes@gmail.com and @DanielPipes

Support Daniel Pipes' work with a tax-deductible donation to the Middle East Forum.Daniel J. Pipes

(The MEF is a publicly supported, nonprofit organization under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Contributions are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. Tax-ID 23-774-9796, approved Apr. 27, 1998.

For more information, view our IRS letter of determination.)