[1] Joost Jongerden wrote that the law constituted a policy of forcible assimilation of non-Turkish minorities by forced and collective resettlement.
[3] Kurds who were resettled from Eastern Anatolia to the west were also split into groups not exceeding 300 people, and tribal leaders were separated from their tribe.
The law was made public and put into effect after it was published in the Resmi Gazete a week after its promulgation.
[14] The logistical difficulties of resettling all non-Turkish populations into majority-Turkish areas caused the law to be implemented mainly during Kurdish uprisings.
The incidents seeking to force out the region's non-Muslim residents first began in Çanakkale, where Jews received unsigned letters telling them to leave the city, and then escalated into an antisemitic campaign involving economic boycotts and verbal assaults as well as physical violence against the Jews living in the various provinces of Thrace.
[16] However, although the Law on Settlement may well have actually provoked the outbreak of the riots, the national authorities did not side with the attackers but immediately intervened in the incidents.
It was used primarily to target the region of Dersim as one of its first test cases and left disastrous consequences for the local population.
[21] In a report delivered to the Republican People's Party (CHP) after the Dersim Rebellion, the law was described as an effective vehicle for the Turkification of the eastern provinces and the destruction of a united Kurdish territory.