Disturbances in Anatolia: Protests and Anarchy

• The Massacres of Armenians by the Greeks and the Sivas Disaster

  Prof. Dr. Kemalettin Kuzucu

  Armenians, who accepted Christianity starting from the 3rd century, changed the name of Saint Grigor, who is recored as Grégoire in the Western sources and who introduced them to this religion, into Lusavorich (the illuminator), and they named their denomination as “Lusavorichagan.” Armenians have faced pressures from the Catholics and Orthodox Greeks throughout history to…

• The First Terror Activity of the Armenians in Istanbul: The 1890 Kumkapi Incident

  Asst. Prof. Dr. Ramazan Erhan Güllü

  As it is well-known, the emergence of the Armenian Question in Ottoman diplomacy took place as a result of the articles that the Biritish Empire and Russia imposed for reforms to be made in favor of the Armenians who lived in the Ottoman State under the name of “Anatolian Reforms” (Karaca, 1993) in the agreements…

• Armenian Protests in Istanbul

  Prof. Dr. Vahdettin Engin

  When Armenians realized that their terrorist activities in Eastern Anatolia did not create enough influence, they decided to do protests in Istanbul. Bust of the Kumkapı Armenian Patriarchate The first of these protests was the event of a bust of the Armenian Patriarchate and Church in Kumkapı on 28 July 1890. The act was arranged…

• The Transition of the 1895 Trabzon Events to the Court and the Interpretations of the Statements of the Armenian Rebels in Court Records in Terms of Social Psychology

  Prof. Dr. Hikmet Öksüz

  Armenians who stayed under Turkish dominion for more than eight centuries with the entrance of Turks into Anatolia started to rebel against the Ottoman Empire dating from the second half of 19th century. Armenians, who took the impacts of the nationalism movement in the Balkans as an example for themselves, made their inclinations towards separating…

• The Yıldız Assasination Planned Against Abdulhamid II and the Diplomatic Crisis with Belgium

  Prof. Dr. Vahdettin Engin

  Armenians who were not able to get the desired results from their protests in Istanbul in 1895 and 1896 attempted to draw the attention of big powers by assassinating Abdulhamid II and carrying out big protests, and in this way, reach their goals by weakening the Ottoman Empire. Within this framework, it was decided to…

• The 1909 Adana Armenian Incidents

  Ass. Prof. Dr. Recep Karacakaya

  The Reasons for the Incidents Adana had religious, historical, and strategic importance for the Armenians. Resurrecting Cilicia, where they claimed the Armenians ruled in earlier times, and establishing Little Armenia by gathering some of the Armenians there was a sacred goal, a national ideal. Sis Catholicosate, which is one of the religious centers of the…

• The Spread of the 1909 Adana Events to Marash and the Judgements by the Marash Court-Martial Customary

  Ass. Prof. Dr. Nejla Günay

  In 1908, Abdulhamid II declared a constitutional monarchy again. The government of the constitutional monarchy passed laws about equality and put them into force. Armenians took action for these laws to be implemented and they started to open their hidden committees and societies, express their demands they had put forth beforehand, and openly implement their…

• The Zeytun Riots

  Ass. Prof. Dr. Nejla Günay

  Zeytun, whose name is Süleymanlı today, was an ancient settlement center founded on the Zeytun River in a narrow valley at the feet of steep and woody Mount Berit, which has an altitude of 3014 meters and is between the Göksun River and the Ceyhan River in the northwest of Marash. The region where Zeytun…

• A Slaughterer Chieftain from Balkans to Caucasia: Andranik Ozanian

  Prof. Dr. Haluk Selvi

  National heroes occupy an important place in the construction of a national history and a national conscience. These heroes embody the characteristic features of the community they are members of. Also in the Armenian independence movement, some symbolic names came to the foreground. The most important of these is Andranik Ozanian. Recently, the interest for…

• The Armenian Pawn of Imperialism “Karabet Tomayan”

  Prof. Dr. Mahir Aydın

  The incident took place in Merizfon county of the Amasya sanjak that is connected with the Sivas province in 1893. At that time, Merzifon was an important place of settlement with a population of 25,555 of which 6,216 were Armenian. Since they earned their living wih trade, only 141 of the Armenians lived in villages…

• The Murder of Grand Vizier Said Halim Pasha in the Memoirs of an Armenian Defender

  Asst. Prof. Dr. M. Hanefi Bostan

  Mehmed Said Halim Pasha was an important statesman who was grand vizier in the Ottoman Empire between the dates 12 June 1913 – 3 February 1917 and one of the important representatives of the movement of “Islamism.” The decisions about the deportations of Armenians were taken during the period when he was the grand vizier….

• Asala and “Children of Talat”

  Dr. Mehmet Perinçek

  French journalist and author, Jean-Pierre Richardot, interviewed hundreds of Armenians living in France when the ASALA activities broke out one after the other in the beginning of the 1980s in Europe. Richardot wrote his impressions based on these interviews, which lasted for one-and-a-half-years, and prepared a book titled “Arméniens: Quoi Qu’il En Coûte (Armenians: Whatever…