Diyarbakir massacre

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This article or section needs to be revised: The article should be content with stating that these processes have so far been little researched and to refrain from quoting striking statements whose truthfulness is so-so. In any case, the Patriarch Barsoum (Ephrem Barsoum: The History of Tur Abdin. 1st edition. Gorgias Press, Piscataway, NJ 2008, ISBN 978-1-59333-715-5 ; original text in Syrian from 1924) writes in his dry text that at the request of the Syrian patriarch Sultan Abdülhamid issued a decree for the protection of Christians and that the governor of Diyarbakir also instructed his sanjak governors to do so. Ultimately, the massacres ended with the intervention of Ottoman troops.
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The patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church , Ignatius Afram I Barsoum (1887–1957), witnessed the massacre as a child; he later conducted studies on the Diyarbakır massacres.

The massacres of Diyarbakır were three days lasting massacres in the Ottoman Empire , which took place from November 1, 1895 in what was then Vilâyet Diyarbakır .

The violent events were part of the massacres of the Armenians 1894-1896 , which had been ordered by the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II . In the massacre of November 1, 1895, an estimated 1,100 to over 2,500 Armenians were killed in the city of Diyarbakır . Forced conversions across the province are estimated at 25,000. Numerous women and children were abducted by Kurdish tribal members . Several thousand homes and businesses were burned down in the province in 1895.

The French consul of Diyarbakir described in a letter to the ambassador:

“Hawar! Hawar! - Help! The Christian population shouted for help in Kurdish . The city is being devastated with fire and sword. "

According to the consul, 119 villages were destroyed. Several thousand shops and private houses were looted. According to Ottoman statistics, Protestants , Catholics , Chaldeans , Greeks and other Christian populations were among the 30,000 dead and missing .

literature

  • Stéphane de Courtois: The forgotten genocide: eastern Christians, the last Arameans . Gorgias Press LLC, 2004, ISBN 978-1-59333-077-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Jelle Verheij: Diyarbekir and the Armenian Crisis of 1895. In: Joost Jongerden: Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir . Ed .: Jelle Verheij. Brill, 2012, ISBN 978-90-04-22518-3 (Dutch, limited preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mely Kiyak : The missing Armenians from Diyarbakir. Zeit Online , accessed August 29, 2013 .
  2. ^ Michael Dumper, Bruce E. Stanley: Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-Clio Inc. 2007. p. 130
  3. ^ Raymond Kévorkian et al. Paul B. Paboudjian: Les Arméniens dans l'Empire ottoman à la veille du génocide. Paris 1992, p. 398