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Elazığ Girls' Institute
The Elazığ Girls' Institute () was a boarding school for Kurdish girls and young women established in Elazığ, Turkey. The boarding school was opened in 1937 to counter the Kurdish Dersim rebellion. Establishment On Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's orders, the Minister of the Interior Sükrü Kaya supervised the creation of an environment which permitted the Turkification of the Kurdish girls and the raising of future Turks. Üngör, Uğur Ümit (2012-03-01), p.205 In 1937, the Inspector General of the Fourth Inspectorate General demanded that the Girls Institute was to be established in a building which originally was to be the new hospital of Elazığ. The city Elazığ was chosen as it had a Turkish speaking and Sunni muslim majority at the time. Organization The recruited girls were a divided into two departments. The first was for the daughters of civil servants and they received a regular high school curriculum.Turkyilmaz, Zeynep (2016), p.171 The second department w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elazığ Elazığ () is a city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey, and the administrative centre of Elazığ Province and Elazığ District. It is located in the uppermost Euphrates valley. The plain on which the city extends has an altitude of . Elazığ resembles an inland peninsula surrounded by the natural Lake Hazar and reservoirs of Keban Dam, Karakaya Dam, Kıralk� |
