Sunday, November 15, 2009

Alevis up in arms against CHP's Öymen after Dersim remarks


Democratic Society Party (DTP) members also held a demonstration in the city, holding posters showing Öymen with a Hitler-like toothbrush moustache.
Turkey's Alevis have continued to slam the remarks of Republican People's Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Onur Öymen, who on Tuesday referred to the Turkish government's response to a 1937 rebellion in the predominantly Alevi city of Tunceli, then known as Dersim, as an example of fighting terrorism.