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Armenian atrocities
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| Armenian atrocities | |
|---|---|
| Part of World War I and Turkish War of Independence | |
 Turkish women and children massacred by the Armenians in Hızırilyas district | |
| Location | Anatolia and Caucasia |
| Date | 1914–1922 |
Attack type | Massacre, looting, rape |
| Weapons | Rifles, pistols, hand grenades, machine guns, artillery |
| Deaths | 518,105 people |
| Victim | Multiple groups: |
| Perpetrators | Hunchak and Dashnak |
| Defenders | Ottoman Army, Hamidian regiments |
| Motive | Liberation of Armenia, provoking Muslims, intervention of great powers |
The Armenian atrocities (Turkish: Ermeni Mezalimi, Ottoman Turkish: ارمنى مظالمى[3]) were the violent acts committed by Armenian revolutionaries against Turks during the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Those included mass killings, looting, extortion, arson and rape. Documents from the Ottoman archive show that a total of 518,105 Turks were killed by the Armenians.[4][5] Massacred were recorded in foreign reports, primarily by the reports of General James Harbord.[6] It is possible to find documents regarding massacres in the Ottoman,[7] British,[8] French,[9] German[10] and Russian[11] archives. These are supported by memoirs of historical figures, oral history[12] and hundreds of mass graves found in the region.[13] There is a memorial erected for victims in Iğdır, Turkey.[14] In Kozan, Adana, a bakery, where Turks had been boiled alive by Armenians, was converted to a museum.[15]
- ^ Sarınay 2001a, p. 2.
- ^ Atam 2019, passim.
- ^ OEHUD 1919, p. 1.
- ^ Sarınay 2001a, p. 377.
- ^ Sarınay 2001b, p. 1054.
- ^ Harbord 1920, p. 35.
- ^ Binark 1995, passim.
- ^ Demirel 2002.
- ^ Gauin 2020.
- ^ Akçam 2006, Böl. 8: "Other evidence of these post-1917 massacres can be culled from the German archives.".
- ^ Doğan 2008, p. 322.
- ^ TTK 2022, passim.
- ^ Süslü 1993.
- ^ Süslü 2012.
- ^ "Ermeni mezalimin yapıldığı fırın ziyaretçilere açıldı" [The oven where Armenian atrocities took place has been opened to visitors]. www.kozan.bel.tr. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
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