The Unrecognized Genocide: “Tertele” by Dersim 1937/38
Aims and Procedure of the Conference:
On the occasion of the 87th anniversary of the Dersim Genocide, we would like to begin by addressing the causes and consequences of state policy in the Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey, which led to various genocides, and to communicate them to the local public. Afterwards, we would like to deal explicitly with the genocide in Dersim, about which very little is known, as well as an analysis of the state policy of Turkization and Islamization in the founding phase of the Turkish Republic. In this way, we would like to contribute to further research into the politics of violence and extermination against ethnic and religious minorities in Turkey. Furthermore, the Dersim Protocol will be assessed as an unrecognized/unknown genocide from the perspective of international law and genocide research. This part of the conference is also intended to show possibilities for coming to terms with the past in the light of international experience. Finally, the importance of raising awareness of the trauma experienced by societies that have been subjected to genocide will be highlighted. In particular, the transgenerational transmission of a collectively experienced trauma between the different generations and the methods for coping with it will be shown. The conference is intended to contribute to a better understanding of the historical and social traumas of the affected migrant community in local society. To this end, however, the aim is also to shed light on the influence that racism and religious fundamentalism still have within the affected population groups today.
However, it also aims to promote a critical debate within migrant
communities about the causes and consequences of the various genocides and the policies that led to them. Through this critical engagement with this topic, we hope to strengthen democratic and humanistic values within the affected migrant societies as well.
Furthermore, the awareness of migration as a migration of an individual’s mental world from one place to another in the local society is also to be strengthened. Because every person brings their own history, culture, faith and traumas with them, which have their roots in the regions of origin. We believe that a better understanding of the migrant communities with their peculiarities described above will have a positive influence on social interaction here.
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2024
Hours: 15:00 – 22:00
Location: Alte Feuerwache , Melchiorstraße 3, 50670 Cologne Cologne
Admission: 15:00 – 15:30
Start: 15:30
Admission: 7-10 Euro
Opening speeches, Tüday etc.
Section 1: 16:00- 18:00
Program:
Nation-Building and Violence: The Turkification of Anatolia at the End of the Ottoman Empire
Prof. Dr. Hans Lukas Kieser
The Founding Ideology of the Turkish Republic and the “Tertele” of Dersim
Kazim Gündogan (non-fiction author, writer)
Dersim’s “Tertele” in International Law and Genocide Studies
Dr. Hüseyin Celik
Genocide – Trauma – Reappraisal and Healing Processes
Prof. Dr. Jan Ilhan Kizilhan
Moderation: Ayse Kalmaz (author, director)
Language: German-Turkish simultaneous translation
Discussion and Q&A session between the panel and the audience
2 . Part
Musical program: Melodies of the peoples affected by the genocide
Beser Sahin
Djancate, Janet & Aykut
Asli Zelal
Organizer:
TÜDAY (Human Rights Association Turkey/Germany),
AABF (Federation of Alevi Associations in Germany),
FDG (Federation of Dersim Communities in Europe)
Supporters: Kurdish Community in Germany, Federation of Yazidi Associations,
Dersim Soykirim Karsiti Dernegi 1938 e.V., KulturForum TurkeyGermany, Dersim Foundation
Academic Exchange, Melanchthon Academy, NAVEND (Center for Kurdish Studies e.V.), Cerkesya Hareketi-Cologne, The Alevi Youth in NRW e.V. (BDAJ-NRW),
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Initiative “Remembering Genocide”, Voices of Solidarity, Multicultural Forum e.V., Agadeka,
Aims and Procedure of the Conference:
On the occasion of the 87th anniversary of the Dersim Genocide, we would like to begin by addressing the causes and consequences of state policy in the Ottoman Empire and Republican Turkey, which led to various genocides, and to communicate them to the local public. Afterwards, we would like to deal explicitly with the genocide in Dersim, about which very little is known, as well as an analysis of the state policy of Turkization and Islamization in the founding phase of the Turkish Republic. In this way, we would like to contribute to further research into the politics of violence and extermination against ethnic and religious minorities in Turkey. Furthermore, the Dersim Protocol will be assessed as an unrecognized/unknown genocide from the perspective of international law and genocide research. This part of the conference is also intended to show possibilities for coming to terms with the past in the light of international experience. Finally, the importance of raising awareness of the trauma experienced by societies that have been subjected to genocide will be highlighted. In particular, the transgenerational transmission of a collectively experienced trauma between the different generations and the methods for coping with it will be shown. The conference is intended to contribute to a better understanding of the historical and social traumas of the affected migrant community in local society. To this end, however, the aim is also to shed light on the influence that racism and religious fundamentalism still have within the affected population groups today.
However, it also aims to promote a critical debate within migrant
communities about the causes and consequences of the various genocides and the policies that led to them. Through this critical engagement with this topic, we hope to strengthen democratic and humanistic values within the affected migrant societies as well.
Furthermore, the awareness of migration as a migration of an individual’s mental world from one place to another in the local society is also to be strengthened. Because every person brings their own history, culture, faith and traumas with them, which have their roots in the regions of origin. We believe that a better understanding of the migrant communities with their peculiarities described above will have a positive influence on social interaction here.
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2024
Hours: 15:00 – 22:00
Location: Alte Feuerwache , Melchiorstraße 3, 50670 Cologne Cologne
Admission: 15:00 – 15:30
Start: 15:30
Admission: 7-10 Euro
Opening speeches, Tüday etc.
Section 1: 16:00- 18:00
Program:
Nation-Building and Violence: The Turkification of Anatolia at the End of the Ottoman Empire
Prof. Dr. Hans Lukas Kieser
The Founding Ideology of the Turkish Republic and the “Tertele” of Dersim
Kazim Gündogan (non-fiction author, writer)
Dersim’s “Tertele” in International Law and Genocide Studies
Dr. Hüseyin Celik
Genocide – Trauma – Reappraisal and Healing Processes
Prof. Dr. Jan Ilhan Kizilhan
Moderation: Ayse Kalmaz (author, director)
Language: German-Turkish simultaneous translation
Discussion and Q&A session between the panel and the audience
2 . Part
Musical program: Melodies of the peoples affected by the genocide
Beser Sahin
Djancate, Janet & Aykut
Asli Zelal
Organizer:
TÜDAY (Human Rights Association Turkey/Germany),
AABF (Federation of Alevi Associations in Germany),
FDG (Federation of Dersim Communities in Europe)
Supporters: Kurdish Community in Germany, Federation of Yazidi Associations,
Dersim Soykirim Karsiti Dernegi 1938 e.V., KulturForum TurkeyGermany, Dersim Foundation
Academic Exchange, Melanchthon Academy, NAVEND (Center for Kurdish Studies e.V.), Cerkesya Hareketi-Cologne, The Alevi Youth in NRW e.V. (BDAJ-NRW),
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Initiative “Remembering Genocide”, Voices of Solidarity, Multicultural Forum e.V., Agadeka,
