Djevdet Bey
Djevdet Bey or Djevdet Tahir Belbezmassacres of Assyrians in the same region.[6]
History
He was born in
Vilayet of Van in 1914.[10] As such, he allied with the Kurdish chieftain Simko Shikak and ordered a massacre of about 800 Assyrians in Salmas in March 1915.[11] In July 1915, he led the massacre of the 15,000 Armenians of Bitlis.[12]
Djevdet was a leader of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP)[13] and the brother-in-law of Enver Pasha.[11]
Djevdet died on 15 January 1955.
In popular culture
He was portrayed by Elias Koteas in the 2002 film Ararat,[14] which received 2 Oscar nominations.
See also
Further reading
- Arnold Toynbee (1916). The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon. Hodder and Stoughton.
References
- ^ a b Sait Çetinoğlu, "Bir Osmanlı Komutanının Soykırım Güncesi" Archived 2014-02-24 at the Wayback Machine, Birikim, 09.04.2009. (in Turkish)
- ^ Selcuk Uzun, "1915 „Van İsyanı“ ve Vali Cevdet (Belbez) Bey"[permanent dead link], Küyerel, 30.12.2011. (in Turkish)
- ISBN 978-1848855618.
- ISBN 978-0739135907.
- ISBN 978-0742562028.
- ^ Travis, Hannibal (December 2006). ""Native Christians Massacred": The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians during World War I". International Association of Genocide Scholars. 1 (3): 343.
- ISBN 978-0-7914-8297-1.
- ISBN 978-1-78831-241-7.
- ^ Kaiser, Hilmar (2019). Kieser, Hans-Lukas Dieser; Anderson, Margaret Lavinia; Bayraktar, Seyhan; Schmutz, Thomas (eds.), p.77
- ^ Kaiser, Hilmar (2019). Kieser, Hans-Lukas Dieser; Anderson, Margaret Lavinia; Bayraktar, Seyhan; Schmutz, Thomas (eds.).pp.102–103
- ^ S2CID 198820452.
- ^ "Kaza Bitlis / Բաղեշ - Baghesh / ܒܝܬ ܕܠܝܣ Beṯ Dlis". Virtual Genocide Memorial. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
- ISBN 978-0-7914-8297-1.
- ^ "Elias Koteas". IMDb.
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