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The Report for Reform in the East (, or ''Şark Islahat Planı'') was a report prepared by the Reform Council for the East () in response to the Sheik Said rebellion. The Reform Council was created on 8 September 1925 by
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 until 1934 ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Repub ...
and presided over by
İsmet İnönü Mustafa İsmet İnönü (; 24 September 1884 – 25 December 1973) was a Turkish army officer and statesman of Kurdish descent, who served as the second President of Turkey from 11 November 1938 to 22 May 1950, and its Prime Minister three time ...
. Its members were selected from the highest political and military authorities, like Chief of Staff Marshal
Mustafa Fevzi Çakmak Mustafa ( ar, مصطفى , Muṣṭafā) is one of the names of Prophet Muhammad, and the name means "chosen, selected, appointed, preferred", used as an Arabic given name and surname. Mustafa is a common name in the Muslim world. Given name Mou ...
, Justice Minister
Mahmut Esat Bozkurt Mahmut Esat Bozkurt (1892 – 21 December 1943) was a Turkish jurist, politician, government minister and academic. His birth name was Mahmut Esat. But after the adaptation of the Turkish Surname Law in 1934, he chose the surname ''Bozkurt'' i ...
, Minister of Commerce Ali Cenani,
Kâzım Özalp Kâzım Paşa Hazretleri Özalp (17 February 1882 – 6 June 1968) was a Turkish military officer of Albanian descent, politician, and one of the leading figures in the Turkish War of Independence. Biography Born in Köprülü (now Veles, Re ...
Şükrü Kaya Şükrü Kaya (1883 – 10 January 1959) was a Turkish civil servant and politician, who served as government minister, Minister of Interior and Minister of Foreign affairs in several governments. Biography Born in İstanköy (Kos), ...
, Abdülhalik Renda and
Celâl Bayar Mahmud Celâleddin "Celâl" Bayar (16 May 1883 – 22 August 1986) was a Turkish economist and politician who was the third President of Turkey from 1950 to 1960; previously he was Prime Minister of Turkey from 1937 to 1939. Bayar began his c ...
. On 25 September 1925 the Reform Council for the East presented its report in the
Grand National Assembly of Turkey The Grand National Assembly of Turkey ( tr, ), usually referred to simply as the TBMM or Parliament ( tr, or ''Parlamento''), is the Unicameralism, unicameral Turkey, Turkish legislature. It is the sole body given the legislative prerogatives ...
with the following recommendations for a reform plan (). * 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
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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 ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ira ...
in "second-level offices" * To provide 7 million
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s 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. In the Inspectorates the use of the
Kurdish language Kurdish (, ) is a language or a group of languages spoken by Kurds in the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. Kurdish constitutes a dialect continuum, belonging to Western Iranian languages in the Indo-European language ...
was prohibited in Governmental buildings, but also in school or the market place and Turkish officials were able to punish the use of the Kurdish language according to law which included fixed tariffs for each word in the Kurdish language.


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