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Robert Olson: The Kurdish Rebellions of Sheikh Said (1925), Mt. Ararat (1930), and Dersim (1937-8): Their Impact on the Development of the Turkish Air Force and on Kurdish and Turkish Nationalism. In: Die Welt des Islams, New Series. Band40, Nr.1, März 2000, S.67–94, S. 91, JSTOR:1571104.
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: „2004 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Turkey“. „Country Reports on Human Rights Practices“. „US State Department“, 28. Februar 2005. Abgerufen am 25. Juli 2008. "In February, the Hurriyet newspaper’s publication of a report that Sabiha Gokcen--an adopted daughter of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who was the country’s first female pilot--was of Armenian descent drew a number of racist public statements. The Turkish General Staff issued a statement criticizing the reports on Gokcen’s Armenian ancestry as „a claim that abuses national values and feelings“ while the Turkish Air Association called the report „an insult“ to Gokcen and to Ataturk."
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor: „2004 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Turkey“. „Country Reports on Human Rights Practices“. „US State Department“, 28. Februar 2005. Abgerufen am 25. Juli 2008. "In February, the Hurriyet newspaper’s publication of a report that Sabiha Gokcen--an adopted daughter of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who was the country’s first female pilot--was of Armenian descent drew a number of racist public statements. The Turkish General Staff issued a statement criticizing the reports on Gokcen’s Armenian ancestry as „a claim that abuses national values and feelings“ while the Turkish Air Association called the report „an insult“ to Gokcen and to Ataturk."