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Report: General Staff to return confiscated documents to Parliament
In remarks to the Vatan daily, Mehmet Daniş, a Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy and head of Parliament’s Petition Commission, said the commission demanded the return of its archive from the General Staff a few months ago.
“The General Staff responded positively. They stated in their answer that they had begun to classify the documents. When they finish, they will send the archives back to the commission,” Daniş said. Gen. Necdet Özel, chief of General Staff, has ordered his subordinates to classify the commission’s archived documents, the daily reported. The General Staff seized the commission’s archive following the 1980 coup.
The Petition Commission accepts petitions from citizens and examines them so as to decide whether or not the petitions are suitable, from a legal perspective, to be sent to the relevant commission.
Many believe that the archives of the commission will shed light on some of the dark chapters of republican history such as the 1937 Dersim rebellion and other incidents during the first decades of the republic.
The children of Dersim victims brought the Dersim rebellion to the attention of Parliament in the 1970s. They explained the kind of difficulties their parents and families faced and demanded their confiscated property be returned to them. Daniş in late December claimed that following the 1980 coup the military destroyed some of the petitions sent by children of the families who had to leave Dersim in 1937.
The General Staff also stated in response to the demand of the commission that some of the files might be missing and that they are unaware of their whereabouts.
Daniş, thus, also believes that the archives will shed light on republican history. “Parliament’s Petition Commission is one of the oldest commissions in Parliament. The archive of the commission includes documents from the pre-1980 years,” he said in comments to Vatan. In addition, he noted that the archive would be digitized to avoid the possibility of the loss of any documents.
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