Dersim Revolt, Tunceli İli, Turkey, 1937-1938

found: EI2(art. Kurds, Kurdistan: ... the assimilation of the Kurds by force [was] to trigger off in 1937-8 a new revolt, as its centre, the mountainous region of Darsim ... Sayyid Riḍā, shaykh of the Naḳshabandī brotherhood ... headed it. This revolt was the most terrible for the Kurds, for it was suppressed with the utmost harshness by the Turks. After having hanged the shaykh and ten of his companions ... on 15 Nov. 1937, the Turks erased Darsim from the map and replaced this ill-fated name with that of Tunceli ["brass hand"])

found: Barkey, H.J. Turkey's Kurdish question, 1998:p. 11 (1937-38 Dersim (Tunceli) revolt) p. 227 (Dersim revolt (1937-38))

found: Gunter, M. Historical dictionary of the Kurds, 2004(art. Dersim; Dersim became notorious in the history of the Republic of Turkey for the third and final major Kurdish uprising before World War II. Led by the septuagenarian Alevi cleric Sayyid Riza, the Dersim revolt lasted from 1936 to 1938 and was defeated only with the utmost in scorched-earth tactics. The name Dersim was then changed to Tunceli to wipe out the memory)