Tunceli Province

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said that Alevis, Sunnis, Kurds and Turks are brothers in Turkey, adding that all citizens in the country are "first-class."

A bustard, the world's heaviest bird species that can fly, which is rarely seen in Turkey, has been found wounded in the eastern province of Tunceli. The bird had a broken leg and was taken into treatment at the Elazığ Veterinary Faculty.

The bones of 11 victims of the Dersim massacre in 1938, including seven children, have been reburied in a ceremony in the current-day eastern province of Tunceli after having been recovered in mass grave excavations a year ago. 

At least two Turkish policemen were killed in attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Sept. 8.

PKK militants have opened fire on a police officer's car in the eastern province of Tunceli, killing the officer and wounding his daughter.

Suspected militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) have opened fire on a police officer?s car in the eastern province of Tunceli, killing the officer and wounding his daughter.

One soldier and four civilians were wounded in a late Aug. 13 bomb attack by suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) on a military post in the eastern province of Tunceli.

Mr. President said, during a fast-breaking (iftar) dinner which he transformed into a political one, ?We need a coalition that should deal with today?s problems, not with the debates of the past.? 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held a grand chamber hearing on June 3 over a case concerning the rejection of a demand made by a number of Turkish Alevis that the state cover the expenses of cemevis, their houses of worship.

Twelve Armenians from Dersim, an older name of the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli, were baptized in an Armenian church in Istanbul on May 9, daily Agos has reported. The baptized group came from families who had concealed their Christian and Armenian heritage out of fear of social prejudice.

Human bone fragments found during an excavation conducted in a rural zone in the eastern province of Tunceli will be tested to determine whether they are the remains of 24 people who were killed during the Dersim massacre in 1938.