Tunceli Province

A rural area in eastern Turkey will be excavated on April 15 to reveal bones allegedly belonging to 24 people from two families killed during the Dersim massacre in 1938.

At the very top, we can hear cries of peace and conciliation, but what happens in daily life?

A Sivas administrative court has canceled a previous decision which dismissed the requirement of an environmental impact report (ÇED) for a hydroelectric power plant (HES) project planned to be built in a valley in the eastern Turkish province of Erzincan.

A Turkish court has sentenced Tunceli Bar Association head U?ur Ye?iltepe to six years in jail on terrorism charges, making him the first chair of a Turkish bar association to be sentenced to prison since the 1980 military coup.

Ye?iltepe and six others were convicted of terrorist crimes stemming from their alleged membership in the outlawed Maoist Communist Party (MKP).

It started a week ago when Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu challenged Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), to go and say in the eastern province of Tunceli the same words he said in Parliament about the 1937-38 suppression of an uprising there.

Turkey’s main nationalist leader was forced to cut short a controversial visit to the eastern Anatolian province of Tunceli (Dersim) upon protests from residents infuriated with his remarks declaring their ancestors who participated in a rebellion as “terrorists.”

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli is set to pay a visit to the eastern province of Tunceli on Nov. 28, but a number of NGOs have reacted negatively to the intended visit, declaring Bahçeli unwelcome in the city. 

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli will travel to the Eastern Anatolian province of Tunceli (Dersim) over the weekend, after Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu claimed that he would not be able to reiterate his arguments on the "Dersim debate" if he meets with residents of the province.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said the government is strongly against discrimination toward the Alevi citizens and he will “personally follow-up” if any kinds of official discrimination occur, during a speech in the Eastern Turkish province of Tunceli on Nov. 23.

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş has stepped into the ongoing debate over the massacre of thousands of people in the Eastern Anatolian province of Dersim, today called Tunceli, in 1937-38.