Hamidian massacres

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Hamidian massacres
Part of the persecution of Armenians and the late Ottoman genocides
A photograph taken in November 1895 by William Sachtleben of Armenians killed in Erzurum[1]
LocationOttoman Empire
Date1894–1897
TargetArmenians, Assyrians
Attack type
Mass murder, looting, forced conversion, ethnic cleansing, pogrom
Deaths80,000–300,000
AssailantsOttoman Army; Kurdish mounted cavalry and irregulars
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The Hamidian massacres

Diyarbekir massacres, where, at least according to one contemporary source, up to 25,000 Assyrians were also killed.[7]

The massacres began in the Ottoman interior in 1894, before they became more widespread in the following years. The majority of the murders took place between 1894 and 1896. The massacres began to taper off in 1897, following international condemnation of Abdul Hamid. The harshest measures were directed against the long persecuted Armenian community as its calls for civil reform and better treatment were ignored by the government. The Ottomans made no allowances for the victims on account of their age or gender, and as a result, they massacred all of the victims with brutal force.[8]

The

telegraph spread news of the massacres around the world, leading to a significant amount of coverage of them in the media of Western Europe, Russia and North America.[9]

Background

Main articles: Armenian genocide § Background, and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire
Further information: Late Ottoman genocides

The origins of the hostility towards the Armenians lay in the increasingly precarious position in which the Ottoman Empire found itself in the last quarter of the 19th century. The end of Ottoman domination of the Balkans was ushered in by an era of European nationalism and an insistence on self-determination by the inhabitants of many territories which had been ruled by the Ottomans for an extremely long period of time. The Armenians of the empire, who were always considered second-class citizens, had begun to ask for civil reforms and better treatment by the government in the mid-1860s and early 1870s. They pressed for an end to the usurpation of their land, "the looting and murder in Armenian towns by Kurds and Circassians, improprieties during tax collection, criminal behavior by government officials and the refusal to accept Christians as witnesses in trial."[10] These requests went unheeded by the central government. When a nascent form of nationalism spread among the Armenians of Anatolia, including demands for equal rights and a push for autonomy, the Ottoman leadership believed that the empire's Islamic character and even its very existence were threatened.

The chief dragoman (Turkish interpreter) of the British embassy wrote that the reason the Ottomans committed these atrocities was because they were "guided in their general action by the prescriptions of Sheri [Sharia] Law. That law prescribes that if the 'rayah' [subject] Christian attempts, by having recourse to foreign powers, to overstep the limits of privileges allowed to them by their Mussulman masters, and free themselves from their bondage, their lives and property are to be forfeited, and are at the mercy of the Mussulmans. To the Turkish mind, the Armenians had tried to overstep these limits by appealing to foreign powers, especially England. They, therefore, considered it their religious duty and a righteous thing to destroy and seize the lives and property of the Armenians."[11]

The Armenian Question

Main article:
Armenian Question

The combination of Russian military success in the recent

Russo-Turkish War, the clear weakening of the Ottoman Empire in various spheres including financial spheres (from 1873, the Ottoman Empire suffered greatly from the Panic of 1873), territorial (mentioned above), and the hope among some Armenians that one day all of the Armenian territory might be ruled by Russia, led to a new restiveness among Armenians who were living inside the Ottoman Empire. The Armenians sent a delegation which was led by Mkrtich Khrimian to the 1878 Congress of Berlin to lobby the European powers to include proper safeguards for their kinsmen in the eventual peace agreement.[citation needed
]

But the sultan was not prepared to relinquish any of his power. Abdul Hamid believed that the woes of the Ottoman Empire stemmed from "the endless persecutions and hostilities of the Christian world."[12]

He perceived that the Ottoman Armenians were an extension of foreign hostility, a means by which Europe could "get at our most vital places and tear out our very guts."[13] Turkish historian and Abdul Hamid biographer Osman Nuri observed, "The mere mention of the word 'reform' irritated him [Abdul Hamid], inciting his criminal instincts."[14] Upon hearing of the Armenian delegation's visit to Berlin in 1878, he bitterly remarked, "Such great impudence ... Such great treachery toward religion and state ... May they be cursed upon by God."[15]

While he admitted that some of their complaints were well-founded, he likened the Armenians to "hired female mourners [pleureuses] who simulate a pain which they do not feel; they are an effeminate and cowardly people who hide behind the clothes of the great powers and raise an outcry for the smallest of causes."[16]

The Hamidiye

An Armenian woman and her children who were refugees of the massacres and sought help from missionaries by walking great distances.

The provisions for reform in the Armenian provinces embodied in Article 61 of the Treaty of Berlin (1878) were ultimately not enforced and were followed instead by further repression. On January 2, 1881, collective notes sent by the European powers reminding the sultan of the promises of reform failed to prod him into action. The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire were historically insecure;[17] the Kurdish rebels attacked the inhabitants of towns and villages with impunity.[18]

In 1890–91, at a time when the empire was either too weak and disorganized or reluctant to halt them, Sultan Abdul Hamid gave semi-official status to the Kurdish bandits. Made up mainly of Kurdish tribes, but also of Turks, Yörüks, Arabs, Turkmens and Circassians, and armed by the state, they came to be called the Hamidiye Alaylari ("Hamidian Regiments").[19] The Hamidiye and Kurdish brigands were given free rein to attack Armenians, confiscating stores of grain, foodstuffs, and driving off livestock, confident of escaping punishment as they were subjects of military courts only.[20]

Armenians established revolutionary organizations, namely the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (Hunchak; founded in Switzerland in 1887) and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (the ARF or Dashnaktsutiun, founded in 1890 in Tiflis).[21] Clashes ensued and unrest occurred in 1892 at Merzifon and in 1893 at Tokat.

Disturbances in Sasun

Main article: 1894 Sasun rebellion

In 1894 the sultan began to target the Armenian people in a precursor to the Hamidian massacres. This persecution strengthened nationalistic sentiment among Armenians. The first notable battle in the Armenian resistance took place in Sasun. Hunchak activists, such as Mihran Damadian, Hampartsoum Boyadjian, and Hrayr Dzhoghk, encouraged resistance against double taxation and Ottoman persecution. The ARF armed the people of the region. The Armenians confronted the Ottoman army and Kurdish irregulars at Sasun, finally succumbing to superior numbers and to Turkish assurances of amnesty, which never materialized.[22]

In response to the resistance at Sasun, the governor of Mush responded by inciting the local

Muslims against the Armenians. Historian Lord Kinross wrote that massacres of this kind were often achieved by gathering Muslims in a local mosque and claiming the Armenians had the aim of "striking at Islam".[23]

Sultan Abdul Hamid sent the Ottoman army into the area and also armed groups of Kurdish irregulars. The violence spread and affected most of the Armenian towns in the Ottoman Empire.[24][clarification needed]

Massacres

Main article:
Massacres of Diyarbakır (1895)
An 1896 depiction of fanatical "Softas" massacring Armenians.[25]

The Great Powers (Britain, France, Russia) forced Hamid to sign a new reform package designed to curtail the powers of the Hamidiye in October 1895 which, like the Berlin treaty, was never implemented. On October 1, 1895, two thousand Armenians assembled in

Constantinople (now Istanbul) to petition for the implementation of the reforms, but Ottoman police units converged on the rally and violently broke it up.[26] Upon receiving the reform package, the sultan is said to have remarked, "This business will end in blood."[27]

Soon massacres of Armenians broke out in Constantinople and then engulfed the rest of the Armenian-populated

Van. Thousands were killed at the hands of their Muslim neighbours and government soldiers, and many more died during the cold winter of 1895–96. William Sachtleben, an American journalist who happened to be in Erzurum after the massacre there in 1895, recounted the grisly scene he came across in a lengthy letter to The Times
:

What I myself saw this Friday afternoon [November 1] is forever engraven on my mind as the most horrible sight a man can see. I went with one of the cavasses of the English Legation, a soldier, my interpreter, and a photographer (Armenian) to the Gregorian [i.e., Armenian Apostolic] Cemetery ....Along the wall on the north, in a row 20 ft (6 m) wide and 150 ft (46 m) long, lay 321 dead bodies of the massacred Armenians. Many were fearfully mangled and mutilated. I saw one with his face completely smashed in with a blow of some heavy weapon after he was killed. I saw some with their own necks almost severed by a sword cut. One I saw whose whole chest had been skinned, his fore-arms were cut off, while the upper arm was skinned of flesh. I asked if the dogs had done this. "No, the Turks did it with their knives." A dozen bodies were half burned. All the corpses had been rifled of all their clothes except a cotton undergarment or two....To be killed in battle by brave men is one thing; to be butchered by cowardly armed soldiers in cold blood and utterly defenseless is another thing.[28]

The French vice consul of

Urfa, where Ottoman troops burned the Armenian cathedral, in which 3,000 Armenians had taken refuge, and shot at anyone who tried to escape.[30]

Abdul Hamid's private first secretary wrote in his memoirs about Abdul Hamid that he "decided to pursue a policy of severity and terror against the Armenians, and in order to succeed in this respect he elected the method of dealing them an economic blow... he ordered that they absolutely avoid negotiating or discussing anything with the Armenians and that they inflict upon them a decisive strike to settle scores."[31]

The killings continued until 1897. In that last year, Sultan Hamid declared the

Armenian Question closed.[episode needed
] Many Armenian revolutionaries had either been killed or escaped to Russia. The Ottoman government closed Armenian societies and restricted Armenian political movements.

Some non-Armenian groups were also attacked during the massacres. The French diplomatic correspondence shows that the Hamidiye carried out massacres not only of Armenians but also of Assyrians living in Diyarbakir, Hasankeyf, Sivas and other parts of Anatolia.[32][33]

A letter sent by an Ottoman soldier to his brother and parents in November 23, 1895 says:[34]

My brother, if you want news from here we have killed 1,200 Armenians, all of them as food for the dogs... Mother, I am safe and sound. Father, 20 days ago we made war on the Armenian unbelievers. Through God's grace no harm befell us... .There is a rumour afoot that our Batallion will be ordered to your part of the world—if so, we will kill all the Armenians there. Besides, 511 Armenians were wounded, one or two perish every day. If you ask after the soldiers and bashi bozouks [wild irregulars], not one of their noses has bled... May God bless you....

Another letter from December 23, 1895 says:[35]

I killed [the Armenians] like dogs... .If you ask news in this manner, we slew 2,500 Armenians and looted their goods

Death toll

Armenian victims of the massacres being buried in a mass grave at Erzerum cemetery.

It is impossible to ascertain how many Armenians were killed, although the figures cited by historians have ranged from 80,000 to 300,000.[4]

The German pastor Johannes Lepsius meticulously collected data on the destruction and in his calculations, counted the deaths of 88,243 Armenians, the destitution of 546,000, the destruction of 2,493 villages, the residents of 646 of which were forcibly converted to Islam,[36] and the desecration of 645 churches and monasteries, of which 328 were converted into mosques.[37][38] He also estimated the additional deaths of 100,000 Armenians due to famine and disease totalling a number of approximately 200,000.[39]

In contrast the ambassador of Britain estimated 100,000 were killed up until early December 1895.

Ernst Jäckh claimed that 200,000 Armenians were killed and 50,000 were expelled and a million pillaged and plundered.[40][41] A similar figure is cited by the French diplomatic historian Pierre Renouvin who claimed that 250,000 Armenians died based on authenticated documents while serving his duty.[40][42]

Besides Armenians, some 25,000

Diyarbekir massacres.[7]

Conversions

In addition to the death toll many Armenians converted to Islam in an attempt to escape the violence.[43] While Ottoman officials claimed that these conversions were voluntary modern scholars, including Selim Deringil, have argued that the conversions were either directly forced or acts of desperation. Deringil notes that many Armenian men shifted swiftly from Christianity to Islam, seeking out circumcision and becoming prominent attendees of their local mosques, attending prayer multiple times each day.[43] Women converted as well, and many chose to remain within Islam even after the violence ended – some Armenian women who were tracked down following the violence indicated that they preferred to remain with their Muslim husbands, many of whom had captured them during the raids and violence, rather than return and face shame within their communities.[43]

International reaction

Sultan Abdul Hamid II

News of the Armenian massacres in the empire were widely reported in Europe and the United States and drew strong responses from foreign governments, humanitarian organizations, and the press alike.

First World War, weakening Britain's relationship with the Ottoman Empire and bolstering British ties to Russia.[46]

The French ambassador described Turkey as "literally in flames," with "massacres everywhere" and all Christians being murdered "without distinction."

carte blanche to do whatever they please, to enrich themselves at the Christians' expense and to satisfy their men's whims."[49]

One headline in a September 1895 article by

David Josiah Brewer, and John D. Rockefeller, donated and raised large amounts of money and organized relief aid that was channeled to the Armenians via the newly established American Red Cross.[54] Other humanitarian groups and the Red Cross helped by sending aid to the remaining survivors who were dying of disease and hunger.[55]

Child victims of a massacre awaiting burial in an Armenian cemetery in Erzurum, 1895

At the height of the massacres, in 1896, Abdul Hamid tried to limit the flow of information coming out of Turkey (Harper's Weekly was banned by Ottoman censors for its extensive coverage of the massacres) and counteract the negative press by enlisting the help of sympathetic Western activists and journalists.

Zionist Action Committee in 1899. The one fellow leader Herzl sought to enlist, Max Nordau, replied with a one-word telegram: 'No'.[57]

Takeover of the Ottoman Bank

Main article: Occupation of the Ottoman Bank

Despite the great public sympathy that was felt for the Armenians in Europe, none of the European powers took concrete action to alleviate their plight.

seized the European-managed Ottoman Bank on August 26, 1896 to bring the massacres to their full attention.[59] The action resulted in the deaths of ten of the Armenian militants, Ottoman soldiers and the massacre of 6,000 Armenian civilians living in Constantinople by Ottomans.[60] According to the foreign diplomats in Constantinople, Ottoman central authorities instructed the mob "to start killing Armenians, irrespective of age and gender, for the duration of 48 hours." The killings stopped only when the mob was ordered to desist from such activity by Sultan Hamid.[61] Though their demands were rejected and new massacres broke out in Constantinople, the act was lauded by the European and American press, which vilified Hamid and painted him as the "great assassin" and "bloody Sultan."[62] The Great Powers vowed to take action and enforce new reforms, although these never came to fruition due to conflicting political and economic interests.[63]

Inaccurate reporting by the Ottoman government

Aintab hospital to protect it from an anti-Armenian pogrom in 1895.[64]

After

Porte
. After retelling the Ottoman version of events, which places the blame solely on the Armenians of Bitlis, Hepworth writes:

…That is the account of the affair which was sent to Yildiz, and that story contains all that the Sultan has any means of knowing about it. It is a most remarkable story, and the discrepancies are as thick as leaves in Valambrosa. On the face of it, it cannot be true, and before a jury it would hardly have any weight as evidence. It is extremely important, however, because it is probably a fair representation of the occurrences of the last few years. That it is a misrepresentation, so much so that it can fairly be called fabrication, becomes clear when you look at it a second time... and yet it is from an official document which the future historian will read when he wishes to compile the facts concerning those massacres.[65]

Official Ottoman sources downplayed or misrepresented the death toll numbers.

Lord Salisbury
:

The Sultan lately sent to me, in common with my colleagues, an urgent message inviting the six Representatives to visit the military and municipal hospitals to see for themselves the number of Turkish soldiers and civilians who had been wounded during the recent disturbances.

I accordingly requested Surgeon Tomlinson, of Her Majesty's ship "Imogene", to make the round of the hospitals in company with Mr. Blech, of Her Majesty's Embassy...

The hospital authorities made attempts to pass off wounded Christians as Mussulmans. Thus, the 112 in the Stamboul [old city of Constantinople] prison were represented as being Muslims, and it was only discovered by accident that 109 were Christians.[40]

Historiography

Some scholars, such as the Soviet historians Mkrtich G. Nersisyan, Ruben Sahakyan, John Kirakosyan, and Yehuda Bauer, and most recently Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi in their book The Thirty-Year Genocide, subscribe to the view that the mass killings of 1894–1896 marked the first phase of the Armenian genocide.[66] Most scholars, however, limit this definition strictly to the years 1915–1923.[67]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "The Graphic". December 7, 1895. p. 35. Retrieved 2018-02-05 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
  2. ^ Armenian: Համիդյան ջարդեր, Turkish: Hamidiye Katliamı, French: Massacres hamidiens)
  3. ^ Dictionary of Genocide, By Paul R. Bartrop, Samuel Totten, 2007, p. 23
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8050-7932-6
  5. ^ "Fifty Thousand Orphans made So by the Turkish Massacres of Armenians", The New York Times, December 18, 1896, The number of Armenian children under twelve years of age made orphans by the massacres of 1895 is estimated by the missionaries at 50.000.
  6. ^ Akçam 2006, p. 44.
  7. ^
    ISBN 978-0-521-81113-2
    .
  8. ISBN 0-8133-3489-6
    .
  9. doi:10.4000/eac.1803
    .
  10. ^ Akçam. A Shameful Act, p. 36.
  11. ISBN 9781571816665
    .
  12. ^ Akçam. A Shameful Act, p. 43.
  13. ^ Akçam. A Shameful Act, p. 44.
  14. ISBN 1-57181-666-6
    .
  15. ^ Quoted in Stephan Astourian, "On the Genealogy of the Armenian-Turkish Conflict, Sultan Abdülhamid, and the Armenian Massacres," Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 21 (2012), p. 185.
  16. ^ Quoted in Astourian, "On the Genealogy of the Armenian-Turkish Conflict," p. 195.
  17. ^ See (in Armenian) Azat S. Hambaryan (1981), "Hoghayin haraberut'yunner: Harkern u parhaknere" [Land relations: Taxes and services] in Hay Zhoghovrdi Patmutyun [History of the Armenian People], ed. Tsatur Aghayan et al. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, vol. 6, pp. 49–54.
  18. ^ Astourian, Stepan (2011). "The Silence of the Land: Agrarian Relations, Ethnicity, and Power," in A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire, eds. Ronald Grigor Suny, Fatma Müge Göçek, and Norman Naimark. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 58–61, 63–67.
  19. ^ Klein, Janet (2011). The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 21–34.
  20. ^ McDowall, David (2004). A Modern History of the Kurds, 3rd rev. and updated ed. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 60–62.
  21. ^ Nalbandian, Louise (1963). The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development of Armenian Political Parties through the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  22. ^ Kurdoghlian, Mihran (1996). Պատմութիւն Հայոց [History of Armenia] (in Armenian). Vol. III. Athens: Council of National Education Publishing. pp. 42–44.
  23. ^ Lord Kinross (1977). The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire. New York: Morrow, p. 559.
  24. ISBN 0-312-10168-6
    .
  25. ^ Edwin Munsell Bliss (1896). Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities. Edgewood Publishing Company. p. 432.
  26. ISBN 0-06-055870-9
    .
  27. ISBN 0714634484
    .
  28. ^ Quoted in Gia Aivazian (2003), "The W. L. Sachtleben Papers on Erzerum in the 1890s" in Armenian Karin/Erzerum, ed. Richard G. Hovannisian. UCLA Armenian History and Culture Series: Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces, 4. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, pp. 246–47.
  29. ^ Quoted in Claire Mouradian (2006), "Gustave Meyrier and the Turmoil in Diarbekir, 1894–1896," in Armenian Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa, ed. Richard G. Hovannisian. UCLA Armenian History and Culture Series: Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces, 6. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, p. 219.
  30. ^ Kieser, Hans-Lucas. "Ottoman Urfa and its Missionary Witnesses" in Armenian Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa, p. 406.
  31. ^ Dadrian. History of the Armenian genocide, p. 161.
  32. ^ De Courtois, Forgotten Genocide, pp. 137, 144, 145.
  33. ^ Travis, Hannibal. "Native Christians Massacred: The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians During World War I." Genocide Studies and Prevention 3 (2006): pp. 327–371.
  34. ISBN 9781571816665
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  35. ISBN 9781571816665
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  36. ^ On this issue in general, see Selim Deringil (April 2009), "'The Armenian Question Is Finally Closed': Mass Conversions of Armenians in Anatolia during the Hamidian Massacres of 1895–1897," Comparative Studies in Society and History 51, pp. 344–71.
  37. ^ Hovannisian. "The Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire," p. 224.
  38. OCLC 825110
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  39. ISBN 978-0195334029
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  40. ^ a b c d e Dadrian. The History of the Armenian genocide, p. 155.
  41. ^ (in German) Jäckh, Ernst. Der Aufsteugende Halbmond, 6th ed. (Berlin, 1916), p. 139.
  42. ^ (in French) P. Renouvin, E. Preclin, G. Hardy, L'Epoque contemporaine. La paix armee et la Grande Guerre. 2nd ed. Paris, 1947, p. 176.
  43. ^
    ISBN 978-0-521-18687-2
    .
  44. ^ Gary J. Bass, Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008; Balakian, The Burning Tigris.
  45. ^ Schumacher, Leslie Rogne (2020), "Outrage and Imperialism, Confusion and Indifference: Punch and the Armenian Massacres of 1894–1896," in Comic Empires: Imperialism in Cartoons, Caricature, and Satirical Art, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020, p. 306
  46. ^ Schumacher, "Outrage and Imperialism, Confusion and Indifference," p. 326
  47. ^ (in French) Cambon, Paul (1940). Correspondance, 1870–1924, vol. 1: L'établissement de la République – Le Protectorat Tunisien – La régence en Espagne – La Turquie d'Abd Ul Hamid, (1870–1908). Paris: Grasset, p. 395.
  48. ^ De Courtois, Sébastien (2004). The Forgotten Genocide: The Eastern Christians, the Last Arameans. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, pp. 106–10.
  49. ^ De Courtois. Forgotten Genocide, p. 138.
  50. ^
    ISBN 978-0-393-33030-4. [1]
  51. ISBN 0-618-00190-5
    .
  52. ^ For a study on the American response to the massacres, see Ralph Elliot Cook (1957), "The United States and the Armenian Question, 1894–1924," Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Tufts University.
  53. ^ Oren. Power, Faith, and Fantasy, p. 294.
  54. ISBN 9780226680101
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  55. ^ Oren. Power, Faith, and Fantasy, pp. 294–96.
  56. Journal of Modern History 79, pp. 87–90, quotation on p. 88. Cf. also Marwan R. Buheiry, "Theodor Herzl and the Armenian Question," Journal of Palestine Studies
    7 (Autumn, 1977): pp. 75–97.
  57. ^ Elboim-Dror, Rachel (May 1, 2015). "How Herzl sold out the Armenians". Haaretz. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  58. ^ Edhem Eldem, "26 Ağustos 1896 'Banka Vakası' ve 1896 'Ermeni Olayları,'" Tarih ve Toplum 5 (2007): pp. 13–46.
  59. ^ Hovannisian. "The Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire," pp. 224–26.
  60. ISBN 0-19-927356-1
  61. ^ Balakian 2003, p. 109
  62. ^ Balakian. The Burning Tigris, pp. 35, 115.
  63. ^ Rodogno, Davide. Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815–1914. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 185–211.
  64. National Geographic
    . p. 348. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  65. ^ Hepworth, George H (1898). Through Armenia On Horseback. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. pp. 239–41.
  66. ^ Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi, The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
  67. ISBN 1-4128-0619-4
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