On 25 September 1925 the Reform Council for the East presented its report in the
Grand National Assembly of Turkey with the following recommendations for a reform plan (Şark Islahat Planı).[1]
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
Euphrates 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 in "second-level offices"
To provide 7 million
Turkish liras for the resettlement of the Kurds in other areas
The report encouraged several resettlement laws[2] and the establishment of three
Inspectorates Generals which included provinces with a Kurdish majority.[3] In the Inspectorates the use of the
Kurdish 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.[4]