TRIBESMEN REVOLT
Rising Against Turkish Modernisation
LEADERS EXECUTED
(Eeceived 16, 1.50 p.m.) ISTANBUL, Nov. 15. A revolt in the Dersim district of Kurdistan in April in which 5000 tribesmen were involved is disclosed with the imposition of the death sentence, followed by hanging of the Ieader, Seyifi Eiza, and 10 aSsociates. Four others were sentenced to 30 years' jmprisonment with hard labour. Heavy penalties were imposed on 434 others. The tribes had only xecently come under Kemal Ataturk's modernising ideas and resented the new administrative division and new methods of collecting taxes. They preferred the old method of bargaining with their chiefs and objected to the presence of gendarmes and soldiers. The Government was obliged to use a forcq of 30,000 to suppress the rising. They employed bomber planes, Eiza's house was hit by the famous young Turkish airwomah, Sabiha Goekchen.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 45, 16 November 1937, Page 5
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