Cevdet Bey

Cevdet Bey or Cevdet Belbez , was Governor ( Vali ) des Vilâyets Van in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War . The province had a large Armenian minority. He was one of the main people responsible for the Armenian genocide in the province.

Cevdet led the Vilâyet (province) of Van from 1914 until the evacuation of the Muslims from the province in May 1915. He was the successor of Tahsin Bey , who was deposed by the Ottoman central government in Constantinople .

During the resistance in Van von Aram Manukjan , Cevdet Bey commanded the Ottoman 3rd Army - together with Halil Bey , the commander of the gendarmerie , Lieutenant Colonel Köprülü Kâzım Bey and the Venezuelan adventurer Rafael de Nogales .

Cevdet Bey was Enver Pascha's brother-in-law . In the 2002 film Ararat , which won the Golden Apricot Award , Cevdet Bey is portrayed in a film in the film by Elias Koteas .

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↑ ^a ^b Sait Çetinoğlu, Bir Osmanlı Komutanının Soykırım Güncesi , Birikim , April 9, 2009. (in Turkish ) (Online: Bir Osmanlı Komutanının Soykırım Güncesi )
^ Richard G. Hovannisian (Ed.): The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times. Volume 2: Foreign Dominion to Statehood. The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. Macmillan, Basingstoke 1997, ISBN 0-333-61974-9 , p. 251.

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SURNAME	Cevdet Bey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cevdet Belbez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Governor in the Ottoman Empire
DATE OF BIRTH	19th century
DATE OF DEATH	20th century

[Birikim-1] Sait Çetinoğlu, Bir Osmanlı Komutanının Soykırım Güncesi , Birikim , April 9, 2009. (in Turkish ) (Online: Bir Osmanlı Komutanının Soykırım Güncesi )

[2] Richard G. Hovannisian (Ed.): The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times. Volume 2: Foreign Dominion to Statehood. The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. Macmillan, Basingstoke 1997, ISBN 0-333-61974-9 , p. 251.