1925 Report for Reform in the East (Turkey)

Reform plan for the Kurdish territories in Turkey The Report for Reform in the East (tr Şark Islahat Raporu, or Şark Islahat Planı) was a report prepared by the Reform Council for the East (tr Şark Islahat Encümeni) in response to the Sheik Said rebellion.Yadirgi Veli The Political Economy of the Kurds of Turkey 2017 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18123-6 169–170 en The Reform Council was created on 8 September 1925 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and presided over by İsmet İnönü. Its members were selected from the highest political and military authorities like Chief of Staff Marshal Mustafa Fevzi Çakmak, Justice Minister Mahmut Esat Bozkurt, Commerce Minister Ali Cenani, Kâzım ÖzalpSuny Ronald Grigor https://books.google.com/books?id=AoM8DwAAQBAJ&q=sark+islahat+enc%C3%BCmeni+turkey+Fevzi+Cakmak&pg=PA301 A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire Göçek Fatma Müge Gocek Fatma Muge Naimark Norman M. Naimark Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies Norman M. 2011 Oxford University Press, USA 978-0-19-539374-3 301–302 en Şükrü Kaya, Abdülhalik Renda and Celâl Bayar. On 25 September 1925, the Reform Council for the East presented its report in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey with the following recommendations for a reform plan (tr Şark Islahat Planı). To impede the emergence of a Kurdish elite as a governing body To resettle people whom the government believed might frustrate their policies To reunite the provinces to the east of the Euphrates River under an administrative subdivision called the Inspectorate General which would be ruled with martial law for an indefinite time To forbid both the use of non-Turkish languages and the employment of Kurds in "second-level offices" To provide 7 million Turkish liras for the resettlement of the Kurds in other areas The report encouraged several resettlement laws and the establishment of three Inspectorates Generals which included provinces with a Kurdish majority.Jongerden Joost The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurds: An Analysis of Spatial Policies, Modernity and War https://archive.org/details/settlementissuet00jong_169 limited 2007 Brill 978-90-474-2011-8 53 en In the Inspectorates the use of the Kurdish language was prohibited in government buildings, schools or markets, and Turkish officials could punish the use of Kurdish according to a law that included fixed tariffs for each word in the Kurdish.Mango Andrew Andrew Mango 1994 Turks and Kurds: Review Article https://www.jstor.org/stable/4283686 Middle Eastern Studies 30 4 983–984 10.1080/00263209408701034 4283686 0026-3206 subscription See also 1934 Turkish Resettlement Law Citizen, speak Turkish! Independence Tribunal of Diyarbekir References Category:Turkish nationalism Category:1925 in Turkey Category:Sheikh Said rebellion Category:Cultural genocide Category:Persecution of Kurds in Turkey Category:Anti-Kurdish sentiment in Turkey