A Day in White Mountain

What happened in Dersim on August 15, 1938? Bayonets rising and falling, machine guns working non-stop, children who were shot and survived thanks to their relatives falling on them, mothers who threw their babies into raging streams to save them, families whose homes were destroyed, torture, torture... Witnesses of the Dersim Operation, one of the black pages of the history of the Republic, are among the witnesses of the past. Despite all this time, they remember with pain what happened. The horrifying stories of "Tertele" witnesses reveal a human tragedy.
Emirali Yagan's book, which brings together interviews with witnesses of what happened on White Mountain on August 15, 1938, when the violence in the Dersim Operation reached its peak, is also a work that reveals the details of daily life and culture in Dersim.
"...Leave me among these dead people, I am a dead man, do not linger with me, go away and seek your own salvation! I don't care if a regiment of soldiers comes; this disgraceful world is not a world to live in!"

"...My sister's weight weighed on me. Instead of getting rid of her weight, I dig the ground with my nails, trying to get under the ground. My sister's warm blood pours on me. I keep scratching the ground. I lost consciousness while struggling to get under the ground..."
"... After 38, there was no drumming around us for twenty years. Weddings were held silently and without ceremony."



Number of Pages: 314

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 314

First Printing Year: 2013

Language Turkish