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Patriarch Harutyun I The Ottoman rule of Armenia or Ottoman Armenia, beginning with the rule of Selim II (1524 – 1574) becomes the integral part of the Ottoman Empire. ...
The term Armenian question in European history, become common place among diplomatic circles and in the popular press after Congress of Berlin; that in like Eastern Question, refers to powers of Europes involvement to the Armenian subjects beginning with the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 in the Ottoman...
Contemporary political cartoon portraying Hamid as a butcher of the Armenians During the long reign of Sultan Hamid, unrest and rebellion occurred in many areas of the Ottoman Empire. ...
Combatants Ottoman Empire members of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party Strength 60,000 soldiers in the army, plus 600 soldiers in a nearby fort 6,000 armed militia Casualties 20,000 soldiers, plus 600 prisoners dead 150 militiamen dead The First Zeitun Resistance (Armenian: ) took place in 1895, during the...
The 1986 Ottoman Bank Takeover was the seizing of the Ottoman Bank in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire on August 26, 1896 by members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnak Party). ...
Picture dramatizing the Yildiz attempt. ...
The Adana massacre occurred in Adana Province, in the Ottoman Empire, in April 1909. ...
Public demonstration in the Sultanahmet district of Istanbul, 1908 The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 reversed the suspension of the Ottoman parliament by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, marking the onset of the Second Constitutional Era. ...
The number of Armenian notables deported from Ä°stanbul/Constantinople in 1915 in the larger framework of Armenian deportations in the Ottoman Empire, plausibly part of that same vast and organized processus, differ greatly from one source to the other. ...
The Tehcir Law The Tehcir Law was a law of the Ottoman Empire setting the rules and conditions of the tehcir (forced relocations)[1][2]. The law was passed by the parliament on May 27, 1915 and came into force on June 1, 1915, with publication in Takvim-i Vekayi...
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The number of Ottoman Armenian deaths between 1914 to 1923 during the Armenian Genocide and what followed during the Turkish War of Independence is a subject of controversy. ...
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Bitlis · Deir ez-Zor · Diyarbakır · Erzurum · Kharput · Muş · Sivas · Trabzon Bitlis is a city in Turkey, capital of Bitlis Province. ...
Dayr az Zawr, or Deir ez Zor, town (1994 est. ...
Diyarbakır (Ottoman Turkish: دیاربکر land of the Bekr as derived from Persian; Kurdish Amed; Syriac ; Greek Amida; Armenian Ամիդ Amid) is a major city in the Southeastern Anatolia region of Turkey. ...
Theodosiopolis redirects here; it is also a name of the ancient city of Apros, Thrace. ...
Elazığ is a city in the Elazığ Province of eastern Turkey and the seat of the province. ...
Shows the Location of the Province MuÅŸ MuÅŸ (alternative transliteration: Mush) is a province in eastern Turkey. ...
Sivas is the provincial capital of Sivas Province in Turkey. ...
Trabzon, formerly known as Trebizond (Greek: ), is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. ...
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Zeitun · Van · Musa Dagh · Urfa · Shabin-Karahisar · Armenian militia · Operation Nemesis Combatants Ottoman Empire Armenian Militia of Armenakans (Ramkavars), Hnchakians (Social Democrat Hunchakian Party), and Dashnaktsutiun (Armenian Revolutionary Federation) Armenian resistance is the military and political activities of the Armenian militia or (Social Democrat Hunchakian Party, Armenakan, Armenian Revolutionary Federation) against the Ottoman Empire during the World War One. ...
Combatants Ottoman Empire members of Hunchaks (Social Democrat Hunchakian Party) Strength 1nd conflict: 20,000 Armed Armenian militia 2nd conflict: 69 grandes, 612 gun, 21 hand-gun, 70 horses Casualties Over 100 soldiers. ...
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Combatants Ottoman Empire Germany Armenian militia of ARF Commanders Megerdich Yotneghpayrian Casualties ? ? The Armenian resistance in Urfa during the Armenian genocide took place as a reaction to Turkish actions. ...
Combatants Ottoman Empire Hunchaks (members of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party) Shabin-Karahisar resistance (June 2-June 30, 1915) was the resistance of the Armenian militia of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (Hunchaks) of the Giresun Province. ...
Defenders of Van in front of ARF flag Armenian militia (Armenian irregular units, Armenian partisans, or Armenian Cethes, Armenian: ), better known by Armenians as Fedayee, is a term referring to Armenian guerrillas who voluntarily leave their families in order to fight for Armenians. ...
Operation Nemesis is the Armenian Revolutionary Federation code-name for the covert operation in the 1920s to assassinate the Turkish masterminds of the Armenian Genocide. ...
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American Committee for Relief in the Near East · National Armenian Relief Committee The United States contributed a significant amount of aid to the Armenians during the Armenian Genocide. ...
The National Armenian Relief Committee was formed out of the leadership given by the New York Armenian Relief Committee and became a loosely federated organization in response to the Armenian Genocide. ...
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Talat · Enver · Djemal · Behaeddin Shakir · Committee of Union and Progress · Teskilati Mahsusa · The Special Organization · Ottoman Army · Kurdish Irregulars · Reşit Bey · Cevdet Bey · Topal Osman This article is about the Turkish nationalist constitutionalist movement. ...
Mehmed Talat Pasha (Turkish: Mehmet Talat PaÅŸa) (1874-1921) was one of the leaders of the Young Turks, an Ottoman statesman, grand vizier (1917) , and leading member of the Sublime Porte from 1913 until 1918, and known to Armenians as a kind of Turkish Hitler . ...
İsmail Enver (Ottoman Turkish: اسماعيل انور) , known to Europeans during his political career as Enver Pasha (Turkish: Enver Paşa) or Enver Bey was a Turkish military officer and a leader of the Young Turk revolution. ...
Ahmed Djemal Pasha Ahmed Djemal Pasha Ahmed Djemal Pasha (Turkish: Ahmet Cemal PaÅŸa) (May 6, 1872 - July 21, 1922) was born in Mytilene. ...
Behaeddin Shakir (d. ...
Foundation: 1894 Dissolved: 1918, Court Martialed Head: The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) (Turkish: ), initially a secret society established as the Committee of Ottoman Union (İttihad-ı Osmanî Cemiyeti in 1889 by the medical students İbrahim Temo, Abdullah Cevdet, İshak Sükuti and Hüseyinzade Ali, became was a political...
Teskilati Mahsusa (Ottoman: TeÅŸkilat-i Mahsusa) is an Ottoman imperial government organization established under war department, which dealt with both Arab separatism and Western imperialism. ...
Special Organization was name given to a three member executive committee established by the Committee of Union and Progress of the Ottoman Empire. ...
The military of Ottoman Empire was structured in three organizational structures Army, Navy, and Air Force. ...
Kurdish-Armenian relations covers the historical relations between the Kurds and the Armenians. ...
Dr. Mehmet Reşit Bey was the governor of the Diyarbakır vilayet of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. He is known for his role in the Armenian Genocide. ...
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Topal Osman, not to be confused with the earlier Topal Osman Pasha, was late Ottoman and early Turkish colonel. ...
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| | | A labour battalion (Turkish: Amele Taburu, Greek: Τάγμα Εργασίας Tagma Ergasias) was a form of unfree labor in late Ottoman Empire and later in Turkish Republic [1] It also refers to disarmament and murder of Ottoman Armenian soldiers during WWI.[2] [3]. Labor battalions provide key evidence for the Pontic Greek Genocide. Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919-1920 were court martials of the Ottoman Empire after the armistice of Mudros during the aftermath the World War One, which the leadership of the Committee of Union and Progress and selected former officials had court-martial with/including the charges of subversion of the...
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The Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian was a sensationalized trial of the assassination of the former Grand Vizier Talat Pasha by the Soghomon Tehlirian. ...
Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire is direct consequence of the World War I with the Ottomans involvement in the Middle Eastern theatre. ...
Denial of the Armenian Genocide is the assertion that the events following April 24, 1915 and the Tehcir Law of May 1915 were not part of a state organized genocide, that an Armenian Genocide did not occur. ...
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Unfree labour is a generic or collective term for forms of work, especially in modern or early modern history, in which adults and/or children are employed without wages, or for a minimal wage. ...
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The historical Pontus region New York Times headlines which observes that the entire Christian population of Trabzon was wiped out. More relevant headlines[1] Pontic Greek Genocide[2][3][4] is a controversial term used to refer to the fate of Pontic Greeks during and in the aftermath of World...
Armenians in labor battalions During the beginning of WWI, Enver ordered that all Armenians in the Ottoman forces, some as old as sixty, to be disarmed, demobilized and assigned to labor battalion units. Many of the Armenian recruits were taken and executed by Turkish soldiers and armed squads known as chetes (groups whose roles were similar to Nazi Germany's Einsatzgruppen) in remote areas.[4] Those who initially survived were turned into road laborers (hamals) and construction mules, but were eventually killed thereafter.[5] A member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1942. ...
Depictions The well-known writer-novelist Elias Venezis later described the situation in his work the Number 31328 (Το Νούμερο 31328). Elias Venezis Elias Venezis was a greek writer. ...
Leyla Neyzi has published a study of the diary of Yaşar Paker, a member of the Jewish community of early 20th century Ankara who was drafted to the Labour Battalions twice, first during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) and then during the Second World War in which Turkey did not take part. Neyzi's paper on the basis of Paker's diary published by Jewish Social Studies presents an overall picture for the conditions in these battalions which were composed entirely of non-Muslims. [6] Leyla Neyzi Leyla Neyzi, (born July 29, 1961) is a Turkish academician (anthropologist/sociologist/historian) who is currently working in Sabancı University, Istanbul. ...
The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination...
(19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the countrys second largest city after Ä°stanbul. ...
Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ...
See also Labour battalions were a form of alternative service or unfree labor in various countries. ...
References - ^ Henry Morgentau, Sr., "I was sent to Athens", Garden City N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1929
- ^ Foreign Office Memorandum by Mr. G.W. Rendel on Turkish Massacres and Persecutions of Minorities since the Armistice, March 20, 1922, Paragraph 35
- ^ USA Congress, Concurrent Resolution, September 9, 1997
- ^ Balakian. The Burning Tigris, p. 178
- ^ Toynbee, Arnold. Armenian Atrocities: The Murder of a Nation. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. pp. 181–182
- ^ Strong as Steel, Fragile as a Rose: A Turkish Jewish Witness to the Twentieth Century, Leyla Neyzi paper on the basis of Yaşar Paker's diary published in the Jewish Social Studies in Fall 2005
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