A fact from Mehmet Şerif Fırat appeared on Wikipedia's
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Did you know... that after Mehmet Şerif Fırat helped the Turkish military defeat the
Sheikh Said rebellion, he was internally exiled with relatives of the leaders of the rebellion?
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ALT1... that to a reprint of Mehmet Şerif Fırats book in which he denied the existence of Kurds, the Turkish President Cemal Gürsel wrote a praising foreword in 1961? for in that book he (Mehmet Serif Firat) denied the existence of Kurds ... Turkish President Cemal Gürsel wrote a glowing introduction in the 1961 reissue of Firats History of Varto and the Eastern Provinces.
Rebel Land: Unraveling the history in a Turkish townpp.40-41 Christopher de Bellaigue
Neutral: - I think there is potentially a NPOV issue. The article dispassionately documents some of the absurd claims made in Firat's book. However, the uninformed reader has no way of knowing whether these claims are right or wrong. Are there any RS that compare Firat's claims to the academic consensus on Kurdish history? Or discuss why Firat, a person of Kurdish origin would propagate these theories?
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User:Buidhe for the review and comment. And you are right. I forgot that maybe it could be understood that Wikipedia also saw these views as true. Gürsel himself points to the findings of foreign scholars about an existence of Kurds in his foreword. I added some words on Gürsel's views on them and that those scholars contradict his views. Other works I read appear to assume the reader knows Kurds exist etc. He is mainly known for that foreword, similar books exist several, but none with a foreword by an acting Turkish President. But I can follow your NPOV concerns and the original hook is also quite surprising.
Paradise Chronicle (
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09:30, 4 August 2022 (UTC)reply
I have added some info of what the Cambridge Dictionary of Kurds had to say about the book and mentioned also what the Turkish president thought of the foreign scholars. I hope this addresses the concerns.
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08:22, 3 September 2022 (UTC)reply