Hafız Mehmed

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Hafız Mehmet (1920)

Hafız Mehmet Bey (* 1874 in Sürmene ; † June 13, 1926 in Izmir ) was an Ottoman - Turkish lawyer and politician. He was a member of the first Grand National Assembly for Trabzon and Minister of Justice from February 8, 1921 to May 19, 1921. Before that he was a member of the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies for Trabzon from 1912 . He was a member of the Special Organization ( Teşkilât-ı Mahsusa ).

Genocide against the Armenians

Hafiz Mehmet stated that he and other local politicians in Trabzon knew about the systematic massacres of the Armenians . Mehmet explained that the police were mainly run through the Special Organization . He repeatedly protested against the decision of the local government and, in particular, against the decision of Governor Cemal Azmi to drown the Armenians in the Black Sea . Mehmet also protested against Interior Minister Talât Pascha , but was not very successful. He explained:

“God will punish us. The matter is too obvious to be denied. I was a witness of the Armenian events in Ordu. Under the pretext of sending them to Samsun, the Mutasarrıf of the Sanjak had the Armenians embarked in barges and thrown overboard. I heard that this was happening throughout the vilayet. Immediately after my return to Istanbul, I was unsuccessful in the proceedings against them. "

- Hafız Mehmet Bey : Takvimi Vekayi , April 27, 1919, No. 3540

Attempted assassination in Izmir

Because of his attempted assassination of the Turkish state founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , he was one of 13 people sentenced to death by the Independence Court on June 13, 1926 . The penalty was the next day enforced .

literature

  • Jay Winter (Ed.): America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 . Cambridge University Press, New York 2003, ISBN 0-511-16382-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A New Publication on The Court Martial of the Young Turk Leaders (English) . In: The Armenian Reporter , July 5, 1997, p. 20. “What is even more significant is that Deputy Hafiz Mehmed was a lawyer by profession! In the Trabzon verdict, the Turkish Military Tribunal's panel of judges declared that "the male and female infants were taken to barges and boats in batches to be drowned." 
  2. ^ A b Ralph Henham, Paul Behrens: The Criminal Law of Genocide: International Comparative and Contextual Aspects . Ashgate Publishing, 2013, ISBN 1-4094-9591-4 , pp. 5 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Jay Winter (Ed.): America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915. New York 2003, p. 96.
  4. ↑ Jacques Derogy: Resistance and Revenge: The Armenian Assassination of the Turkish Leaders Responsible for the 1915 massacres and deportation . Transaction Publishers, 1990, ISBN 1-4128-3316-7 , pp. 32 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Taner Akcam : My Turkishness in Revolt (English) . In: The Armenian Reporter , February 10, 2007, pp. 1-2. 
  6. ↑ Jay Winter (Ed.): America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915. New York 2003, p. 81.
  7. ↑ Huberta von Voss (ed.): Portraits of hope. Armenians in the contemporary world . Translated by Alasdair Lean. Berghahn Books, New York 2007, ISBN 1-84545-257-7 , pp. 50 .
  8. ↑ Dipnotlar ( Memento from January 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Mehmed, Hafiz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mehmet, Hafiz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman-Turkish politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Sürmene
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1926
Place of death Izmir