17 November 2009 / VATAN OKAY GÖNENSİN,
Two of the spokesmen for the CHP -- one being retired Ambassador Onur Öymen, the other being CHP leader Deniz Baykal -- have displayed their lack of consciousness in their own politics through two “historical” subjects they introduced to the national agenda.
Öymen, through his statements on the 1937-1938 Dersim (Tunceli) events, and Baykal, through his mention of the role played by Kurdish tribes in the 1915 Armenian relocations, have both managed to reveal to all their own perspectives on the historical events they are debating. The uprising covered in the official documents about the Dersim events depicts an adverse sort of reaction to new steps that the Ankara government wanted to take in the region, and that the Kurdish clans themselves did not take part in these uprisings.