ARMENIAN GENOCIDE – Suicide in Beşiktaş. Massacre Mehmet Rashid Bey
09 FEBRUARY 2020 – ARMENIAN GENOCIDE.
«In one of his interviews, Interior Minister Jemal admitted that the Ittihadists had deported and massacred 800,000 Armenians. Thus, the first high-ranking official of the Ottoman Empire was the Minister of Internal Affairs Jemal, who for the first time published the official data on the losses of Armenians.»
The first arrests of those accused of organizing and carrying out the Armenian Genocide took place in 1918. in early December in Ankara, Chorum and Adana. 1919 Arrests in January-February became widespread.
1919 In January, a conference was held in Paris, which set up a commission authorizing him to find war criminals. It was thanks to the work of this commission that the provisions of Articles 226, 228 and 230 of the Code of Criminal Procedure included those responsible for bringing the perpetrators of the massacres of Armenians to justice.
1919 In February, Ottoman Prime Minister Ahmet Tefik Pasha addressed neutral countries Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands, asking them for two judges to try to bring the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide to an international tribunal, but the British prevented it. to prosecute those responsible through the courts.
The first initiative to establish military courts to try the perpetrators of the massacres of Armenians was in 1918. It was in mid-December that the sultan’s proclamation was published. Military tribunals were set up to try criminals, and the empire was divided into 10 districts.
1919 The first, second and third military instances were formed on January 8 in Istanbul. The members of the Young Turk Party and the government were initially tried together, but at the second hearing, the case of the members of the government was separated at the request of the prosecutor.
1919 After the execution of Mehmet Kemal, who was hanged in April 2007, when the domestic political atmosphere was strained and a large protest rally was held in Istanbul in May against the trial, the government released 41 criminals and the trial of Ittihad defendants was temporarily suspended.
In late May, the British transferred 78 prisoners, mostly Ittihad criminals, from Malta Island to prison. After some time, the British, instead of judging the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide in Malta, exchanged them with the British prisoners of war.
1919 In March, Prime Minister Damad Ferid Pasha announced that he would act in accordance with the wishes of the British. Arrests began immediately. In addition to former Prime Minister Saeed Halim, a number of ministers and lawmakers have been arrested.
The United Kingdom has given 61 names to the Ottoman Empire. A total of 300 people have been arrested on charges of deporting and killing Armenians, including ministers, governors, governors, police, gendarmes and journalists.
Most of the detainees were locked up in prisons, but their control was not strict. The criminals were later visited by Mustafa Fa Kemal, who later received the surname Ataturk. The detainees were once visited by Kyazim Karabekir.
Several criminals escaped due to poor prison conditions. Among them was Mehmet Reshid Bey, the governor of the famous Diyarbakir province of Diyarbakir.
He committed suicide in the Besiktas district of Istanbul after being surrounded by police. 1919 Enver Pasha’s uncle Khalil and the famous Ittihad Kuchuk Talaat also escaped from prison in August.
Ali Kemal, who held the post of Minister of General Education and then Minister of Internal Affairs, wrote in “Sabah” daily: “Four or five years ago, there was an unprecedented crime in history, a crime that caused horror all over the world.
If we want to give an idea of the scale and conditions of this crime, we need to talk not about five to ten, but about hundreds of thousands of criminals. It has already been revealed that the tragedy was actually planned based on the decisions of the Ittihad Central Committee. ”
In one of his interviews, Interior Minister Jemal admitted that the Ittihadists had deported and massacred 800,000 Armenians. Thus, the first high-ranking official of the Ottoman Empire was the Minister of Internal Affairs Jemal, who for the first time published the official data on the losses of Armenians.
ARMENIANS AND TURKS from the book
In the photo: a view from old Besiktas, 1850s.
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