Title: Tunceli Province Content:  == Politics == Maçoğlu, who entered the election as the candidate of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), was elected mayor of Tunceli (Dersim) with 32 per cent of the votes."Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) wins Dersim province in local elections". Liberation. "For the first time in the history of Turkey, communists will be administering the municipality of a province. In the municipal elections held on March 31, running as the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) candidate on the Dersim Democratic People Solidarity (DDHD) ticket, Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu won the mainly Kurdish province of Dersim in Eastern Turkey with 32 percent of the votes.""Tunceli'yi kazanan TKP'li Maçoğlu'na 'söylenemeyecek güvenlik gerekçesi' ile mazbatası verilmedi". Euronews. "Yerel seçimlere Türkiye Komünist Partisi adayı olarak giren Maçoğlu, oyların yüzde 32,77'sini alarak Tunceli Belediye Başkanı seçilmişti."'"'Komünist Başkan' Maçoğlu mazbatasını aldı". Sputnik. "30 Mart 2014'te yapılan Mahalli İdareler Genel Seçimleri'nde Ovacık Belediye Başkanlığı'nı kazanıp Türkiye'nin ilk ve tek TKP'li Belediye Başkanı olan Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu, 31 Mart seçiminde Tunceli'den aday oldu. Seçimi yüzde 32.77 oy oranıyla kazanan Maçoğlu, Tunceli'nin yeni belediye başkanı seçildi. Ovacık Belediyesi'ni halefine devreden Maçoğlu'na 'güvenlik' gerekçesiyle verilmeyen mazbatası bugün kendisine teslim edildi." Thus, for the first time in the history of Turkey, communists began to govern the municipality of a province. == Name changes == According to Nuri Dersimi, it is noteworthy that six centuries before Christ, Greek historians and geographers called the Dersim region Daranis, and in the Bisltun inscriptions of Dara, this region is called Zuza, and the term Zuza is similar to the word Zaza, which is the "Kurdish dialect" spoken in Dersim and its region. According to another thesis, estimated that the name Dersim (Der- sîm "silver gate" in Persian) was given to the region, which frequently changed hands between the Sassanids and Byzantium during the Byzantine period. After and before the Dersim rebellion, any villages and towns deemed to have non-Turkish names were renamed and given Turkish names in order to suppress any non-Turkish heritage.T.C İçişleri Bakanlığı İller İdaresi Genel Müdürlüğü (1968). "Köylerimiz". During the Turkish Republican era, the words Kurdistan and Kurds were banned. The Turkish government had disguised the presence of the Kurds statistically by categorizing them as "Mountain Turks". The people of Tunceli have been actively fighting to get their province reverted to its old Kurdish name "Dersim". Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) claimed they are working on what it called a “democratization package” that includes the restoration of the Kurdish name of the eastern province of Tunceli back to Dersim in early 2013, but there has been no updates or news of it since then."After 78 years, Turkey to restore Tunceli’s original name". Today's Zaman. "Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is working on what it called a “democratization package” that includes the restoration of the Kurdish name of the eastern province of Tunceli. The original name of the province was Dersim and was changed to Tunceli in 1935." The local authority decided to call it Dersim in May 2019, while the Governor said it was against the law to call it Dersim."A short history of Turkification: From Dersim to Tunceli". Ahval. "The local authority in Tunceli in eastern Turkey decided this month to call the city and the province by its Kurdish name – Dersim - saying the Turkish name, which means bronze fist, did not represent the culture, history or religious beliefs of an area often at odds with central government." == Notable people == * John I Tzimiskes (925–976)(in Armenian) Matthew of Edessa. Մատթեոս Ուռհայեցի`Ժամանակնագրություն (The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa). Translation and commentary by Hrach Bartikyan. Yerevan, Armenian SSR: Hayastan Publishing, 1973, pp. 12–13. \- Byzantine emperor between 969 and 976 years * Seyid Riza (1863–1937) - Kurdish/Zaza tribal leader and organizator of Dersim rebellion * Nuri Dersimi (1893–1973) - Kurdish nationalist writer, revolutionary and intellectual * Aurora Mardiganian (1901–1994) - Armenian author, actress, and a survivor of the Armenian genocide * Turgut Özal (1927–1993)"Çemişgezek'e bir gelen geri dönmek istemiyor". Sabah. (in Turkish). "8. Cumhurbaşkanı Turgut Özal'ın annesi Hafize Özal, Çemişgezek Mezire Köyü doğumlu.""Turgut Özal'ı rahmetle anıyoruz". Yeni Akit. "Babası Malatya/Çırmıktı'lı Ünlüoğulları'ndan banka memuru Mehmet Sıddık Özal, annesi ise Tunceli Çemişgezekli, ilkokul öğretmeni Hafize Hanım (d. 1906 - ö. 1988) olan Turgut Özal kısmen Kürt kökenlidir." \- 8th president of Turkey, he was of mixed Turkish and Kurdish descent * Sait Kırmızıtoprak (1935–1971) - Kurdish nationalist writer and revolutionary * Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (1948) - Turkish economist, retired civil servant, social democratic politician and leader of the Republican People's Party * Gültan Kışanak (1961)"Gültan Kışanak Kimdir?". Bianet. "Ailesi zamanında Dersim'den göçerek Elazığ'ın merkez köylerinden Sünköy'e yerleşmiş bulunan Ağuce aşiretine mensuptur." \- Kurdish journalist, author and politician * Alican Önlü (1967) - Kurdish politician * Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius (1977) - Dutch politician of Kurdish origin, current minister of justice and security in Netherlands * Sakine Cansız (1958–2013) - Kurdish activist, co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party * Volga Sorgu (1981) - Zaza movie and serial actor * Zuhal Demir (1980)"Belçika’nın Kürt asıllı bakanı Zuhal Demir tehdit edildi". Ahval. (in Turkish). "Tunceli ve Elazığ kökenli, maden işçisi bir babanın üçüncü çocuğu olan Zuhal Demir, 12 Mart 1980'de Belçika'nın Genk kentinde dünyaya geldi." \- Belgian lawyer and politician of Kurdish origin, current minister of environment, justice, tourism and energy in Flanders, Belgium * Edibe Şahin (1960) - Kurdish politician, former mayor of the municipality of Tunceli. * Kamer Genç (1940–2016) - Turkish politician * Hülya Oran (1978) - Kurdish miliant, one of leaders of Kurdistan Workers' Party and is the co- chair of the Kurdistan Communities Union * Hozan Diyar (1966) - Kurdish singer * Yıldız Tilbe"Star'daki Yıldız Tilbe'nin Programında Türk-Kürt Gerginliği...". Haber Vitrini "Programın ilerki bölümlerinde Yıldız Tilbe, “Ulaştırma Bakanından uyarı gelmiş. Benim anam Tuncelili, hem Zaza hem Kürt, babam Ağrılı Kürt. Ben bu topraklarda doğdum, büyüdüm. Kürt neyse benim için Türk de odur, Laz da odur, Çerkez de odur. Hiç bir farkı yoktur birbirinden asla” dedi." (1966) - singer of Kurdish and Zaza origin * Hüseyin Aygün (1970) - Zaza lawyer and politician * Ali Haydar Kaytan (1952–2019) - Kurdish miliant, co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party * Aynur Doğan (1975) - Kurdish singer and songwriter * Fatih Mehmet Maçoğlu (1968) - KurdishKomünist Başkan Maçoğlu: Dersim burası, Kızılbaş, Kürdüm. Rûdaw. (in Turkish). "Ben Kızılbaş Kürt biriyim. Ama şöyle bir yanım yok yani. Ben dünyadaki bütün insanların tenlerinde, ırkında, yaşam biçiminde ayrıştırmaları doğru bulan biri değilim." communist politician, currently the mayor of Tunceli with Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) ticket * Ferhat Tunç (1964) - Kurdish"Ferhat Tunç: Sanatçı özgürlükten vazgeçemez". Bianet. (in Turkish). "“Ülkemizde güçlü muhalefet olmadığı veya her kendini ifade eden büyük baskıyla karşılaştığı için dijital ve küresel desteklerin sonuç verici olacağına inanıyorum” diyen Tunç, konferans katılımcılarına şöyle seslendi: “Türkiye'de özgür sanat yapmaya çalışan bir Kürdüm. Hem Kürt hem de muhalif kimliğim kırk senedir baskıya, hapis cezalarına, konser yasaklarına uğramama neden oluyor. Size bu videoyu hazırlarken Kürtçe bir tiyatro oyunu ‘kamu düzenini bozacağı’ iddiasıyla yasaklandı mesela." singer, songwriter and musician * Mikail Aslan (1972) - Zaza musician