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| '''Seyid Riza''', (in ]: ''Sey Rıza'', in ]: "Seyîd Riza") was a leader of the ] movement in ] during the 1937-1938 ]. In explaining the reason for the rebellion to the British foreign secretary | '''Seyid Riza''', (in ]: ''Sey Rıza'', in ]: "Seyîd Riza") was a leader of the ] movement in ] during the 1937-1938 ]. In explaining the reason for the ] rebellion to the British foreign secretary ] he said the following:<ref>McDowall, David. ''A Modern History of the Kurds'', page 208. ], 2004.</ref> | ||
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Seyid Riza, (in Zazaki: Sey Rıza, in Kurmanji: "Seyîd Riza") was a leader of the Kurdish movement in Turkey during the 1937-1938 Dersim Rebellion. In explaining the reason for the Kurdish rebellion to the British foreign secretary Anthony Eden he said the following:
The government has tried to assimilate the Kurdish people for years, oppressing them, banning publications in Kurdish, persecuting those who speak Kurdish, forcibly deporting people from fertile parts of Kurdistan for uncultivated areas of Anatolia where many have perished. The prisons are full of non-combatants, intellectuals are shot, hanged or exiled to remote places. Three million Kurds, demand to live in freedom and peace in their own country.
He was captured on 5 September 1937 and was hanged.
References
- McDowall, David. A Modern History of the Kurds, page 208. I.B. Tauris, 2004.