The Need To Apologize: A Study On The Political Apologies In The World And Their Comparison With The Turkish Non-Apologies

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Submitted to the Institute of Social Sciences
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Master of Arts

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• The RPP should face not only the past of these lands, but also the past of itself. The first thing it should face is Dersim and then comes the other pressure it has made towards the people, faith and the values of this society. It should question its own history. It is an unmissable opportunity for it to have a deputy who has written a book about Dersim and brought the issue to the agenda. (Here, he refers to Hüseyin Aygün.) Moreover, it is a unique opportunity for it to have a chairman who is from Dersim and belongs to a Dersimi tribe. It is an unmatched opportunity for the RPP to have a chance to face the Dersim Disaster. When I mentioned this during the referendum campaigns, he felt unconfident. Why? You are from Tunceli, tell this, why are you escaping? Tell your tribe, tell your faith. He told that what I did was discriminatory. Now, he says that the Prime Minister is the one to apologize. If there is someone to apologize for Dersim, it is you. Why? Because it was due to the party of which you are head now and you represent. The bill of Dersim is what your party made those people pay. So, you are the one to apologize. There was not a single party except the RPP. Only your party was there. If you do not face your history now, you will never get a chance to this again1

  — Erdoğan

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