The following news appeared in the headline of the Cumhuriyet Newspaper on September 30, 1930: “A Heroic Lady… She kidnapped the Şakis (bandits) by fighting with 50 Kurds around Erzincan.” The full text of the Cumhuriyet Newspaper’s news is as follows:
A ‘HEROIC’ LADY
“The picture we have compiled (published) shows the situation of a lioness in the trench defending the honor and dignity of a Turkish woman and the nation with her weapon in her hand.

This heroic woman is Sıdıka Hanım, the wife of Şerafettin Bey, the Riyaziye (mathematics) teacher at Erzincan Military Secondary School. With the encouragement of the leader of a Kurdish tribe settled in the village where Şerafettin Bey lived near Erzincan, a bandit gang of 6 people attacked his house in a very treacherous manner on a day when Şerafettin Bey was on duty at the school.

Sıdıka Hanım, suspecting the extraordinary attacks of the dog that announced the start of the attack, loaded her husband’s and her rifles and prepared for the fight after putting her children to bed. At dusk, the pseudo-Kurds started to attack Şerafettin Bey’s house (coming one after the other) after opening a heavy fire.

Sıdıka Hanım repelled the Kurds who entered the house and one of these bandits was injured in the process. Seeing that one of them was injured, the Kurds ran away. Meanwhile, Ms. Sıdıka went to the garden and lit 58 cartridges. When Şerafettin Bey came to the village with the news of the incident, the perfidious jokes had fled to the border of Dersim Province.

After the bandit escaped, this brave woman told those who came to Şerafettin Bey’s house to ask for help that it was unmanly for even one of the men of the village to come to her aid as long as the conflict continued, and made these visitors sweat with shame by saying, ‘Isn’t there any man among you who will follow the bandit with me?'”
Source: ANF – Kurdish news agency – 2012
Source: The same publication is included with the comments of Oğuz Doğan, a member of the “Turkish Left”, who states that it is “from the archive of researcher and writer Yunus Yılmaz”. http://www.turksolu.com.tr/470/odogan470.html
Dipçe: There is no need to twist and ramble this article of the Cumhuriyet newspaper.

The text is clear and obvious. Nowadays, the terrorist organizations that appear under dozens of different names, such as PKK, YDP – YPG, serve no purpose other than being used as a tool to manipulate perceptions. Even if they have a hundred different names, they are all the same. Ataturk’s Turkey was clearly titled with its own principled perspective and Turkist view; “Kurds!” That is, without the need to give a name, without separating one from the other, without polishing it or ignoring it!

It was used synonymously with the word “bandits”. “It was PKK, it was YPG, it was Armenian, they came from outside, I don’t know who trained them, this person’s man, this legionnaire, they were deceived, real Kurds were not like that, etc.” Without the need to hold on to the numerous bloody branches that can be found, he openly called the Kurds “Kurds” and showed the Kurds as “primarily responsible for banditry”.

No one can sugarcoat us with the fuss about a democratic and Kurdish initiative that they cling to for their empty dreams, their efforts to create Kurds and Kurdish lovers from Turks, and to spread Kurdish racism as humanitarianism. They cannot absolve dirty pasts and dark views.