a 1st Army Command From Army Headquarters at Nişantaşı1st Division 2nd Department September 11, 1916Number: 2588To: Office of the Commander-in-ChiefSummary: About the Armenian deserters caught in the responsibility area of the 5th Army Corps Recruitment Committee.In the clashes that took place between the tracker teams and the deserters in the vicinity of Dişli Village of the Sorgun district of Yozgat a sol...
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HOW AND THROUGH WHOM WAS THE MONEY FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRIBUTED TO ARMENIANS?
Ottoman GovernmentMinistry of Internal AffairsGeneral Directorate of National Police OrganizationGeneral: 44316Private: 23Division: 2Ottoman Army Headquarters In reply to the message numbered 9835, dated 23 January 1916, written by the 2nd Division. A notification has been sent to the cities and to the sanjacks that are not affiliated to those cities under consideration as regards to the means of sending t...
CIVILIAN KILLINGS IN ERZURUM
Ottoman ArmyOffice of the Commander-in-ChiefNumber108Unnumbered code sent from the 3rd Army to the Office of Commander-in-ChiefRejoinder. dated March 20, 1916 Information Bureau … We have previously presented an intelligence report about the atrocities committed by the Armenians [and] … in Erzurum on March 10, 1916. The people who ran away from the villages that were subjected to the atrociti...
WHAT WAS DONE TO PREVENT CRIMES AGAINST RELOCATED ARMENIANS?
Ottoman GovernmentPrime MinistryOffice of the Foreign Affairs829About the delegations to be sent to the provincesTo the Ministry of DefenseClassifiedSir,In relation to military and public security, it has been understood there are misusings and illegal practices in sending of the Armenians to intended places. For the performing of the necessary investigations and sending of the perpetrators to the Military C...
DESERTION OF ARMENIANS IN THE URFA LABOUR BATTALION
Ottoman ArmyHeadquartersCode received from AleppoNumber: 67381. It has been understood that the Armenian soldiers of one of the companies of the Urfa Worker Battalion have attacked and ran away after having martyred some Muslim soldiers along with their captains and wounding many with pickaxes and shovels.2. More than 3000 of the soldiers in the range transportation branches, worker battalions, porter, and...
HOW DID THE ARMENIAN ACTIONS AFFECT SECURITY ON THE FRONT AND IN THE HINTERLAND?
Ministry of Defense Secret and PersonalDepartment of CorrespondencesOffice of CorrespondencesCode received from Mahmut Kâmil Pasha, Commander of the 3rdArmy, dated June 19, 1915.The cities of Erzurum, Trabzon, Van, Bitlis, Elazığ, Diyarbakır, and Sivas are the regions of war in the east. As the war campaign is carried out in this region, the supplies needed for the army are provided from those cities...