The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-03
MASSACRE OF
THOUSANDS BY
TURKS limited
$500 Men, Women and
Children Reported Slain
in Drive on KUrdS.
BOMBED BY PLANES
Many Villages Destroyed on
Turbulent Border, Say
Dispatches.

Press
LONDON, Oct. 3.-An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Jerusalem
reported, without confirmation, to-
day that Turks had massacred
1880 men, women and children and
destroyed many villages in the
z.lan district.
The Exchange Telegraph CORE
spondent also reports, without con-
firmation, that Turkish aerial bonn
bardments had killed hundreds of
persons in the Djeulmarek, Agri and
Tendruk districts.
Troops under Jewad Pasha Renal
and Eddin Pasha destroyed many
villages near Tcsaldiran, the dis
patch said.
The engagements covered wide
area along the Turkish-Persian
frontier. where Kurdish tribesmen
have been causing trouble between
Turkey and Persia, eliminating in
a Turkish ultimatum to Persia to
keep the Kurds from invading Tur-
kish territory.
Believed Reinforced
Reports from the frontier to Jeru-
salem indicated the Kurdish insur-
gents recently had been reinforced
and we're defending sixty-f1ve-
mile front stretching from Aralki to
the Bayazid district, just south of
nat. Ararat.
The Turks concentrated around
Bayazid and the Iraq frontier,
while the Persians also strengthened
their frontier forces.
The struggle between Kurdish
rebel forces along the Persian from
tier of Turkey became violent sew
eral months ago when the tribes
men renewed their demands for an
autonomous state, which was denied
them after the World war settle
mentS.
The fighting, which has taken a
heavy toll of casualties in rece~t
weeks, has been centered in the Mt.
Ararate region, where Turkish
troops supported by airplanes and
with some cooperation from Per-
STA. had the Kurds surrounded re-
Gently, only to meet fierce tribal
resistance.
All Fierce Fighters
The two or three million Kurds
are distributed along a vast area in
Turkey, Persia and Iraq, being con-
centrated chiefly in the Kurdistan
region, where the three frontiers
meet below Armenia The KurdS
are fierce fighters and bands OF the
natives have sworn to establish an
independent state.
Rich oil fields in the MoSul area
on the Iraq border have entered
into the disturbances and 1t has
been charged in the Turkish cap
itaI that British interests have
backed the Kurd rebellion because
, of the oil rights involved.
Under leadership of the tribal
chieftain Selahettin, son Of the
late Sheik Said, who was executed
for rebellion by the Turks in 1925,
the kurdish movement has ramltl-
tions in Mardine, Gizras Erserum,
Tercam, Trebizond, Bayazid, Van
and Kars..
Call it Sporadic
Although the Turks have said the
movement merely was sporadic tribal
rebellion, there have been ndlca-
tions that the revolt had its basis
in "a rising of all the oppressed peo-
pies" of the Near East, that is the
Kurds, Armenians and various tribes
such as the HISTORIANS and zazas.
There have been reports that propa-
sanda from radical centers in Persia
was influencing the movement, and
the Persian government was slow
to offer the Turks any cooperation
or permission to cross the frontier
to fight the rebels.
The Turks captured Selahettln
soon after the fighting started, but
he has not yet been put on trial.