Nezahat Gündoğan

İki Tutam Saç: Dersim'in Kayıp Kızları

Nezahat Gündoğan

The Dersim rebellion was a Kurdish uprising against the Turkish government in the Dersim region of eastern Turkey, which includes province s of Tunceli, Elazig and Bingöl . It was led by an Alevi chieftain Seyid Riza. As a result of cruel Turkish military attacks against the rebellion, ten thousands of Alevi Kurds and Zazas were killed and many others were internally displaced due to the conflict. This is a story of a girl who was separated from her family, language, belief, history and culture and who looks for them after 74 years.

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Nezahat Gündogan, Nezahat Gündoğan

Orhan Alkaya, Aslıhan Kandemir

This is the story of Emoş Gülver, one of hundreds of women who decided to search for their roots after seeing the 2010 documentary “İki Tutam Saç: Dersim’in Kayıp Kızları” (Two Locks of Hair: The Lost Girls of Dersim), which recounted the stories of little girls who were separated from their parents in the late 1930s during a state intervention against the Dersim revolt in Tunceli. Emoş was 5 years old when her family was killed in Dersim, taken by a military officer who took part in the operation and raised by his family. 75 years later, she begins a journey with her daughter back to her roots.