DIYARBAKIR ARMENIANS Bedros Daglayan
Türkçe
DIYARBAKIR ARMENIANS Bedros Daglayan
There are years that I am a foreigner far from my homeland; I fly anxiously in foreign lands…
I know what kind of love and what kind of longing it is. The people who created Diyarbakir and wrote the poetry of living together have become so united with their sense of freedom that they never say goodbye to anyone, especially the oppressors. They hold their head high and stick their chest out forward, they stand against beatings, all kinds of oppression, even bullets; it is now a lament on the mouths of mothers, an epic on the tongues of dengbej.
When an inhumane operation under the guise of an anti-terror operation started in Diyarbakır, I said, oh no! As someone who knew about the cruelty that was committed before 1980, I could more or less guess what would happen to the people... I knew it, but who could have thought such a thing?
Now I don’t even have a place that I can call my hometown, my neighborhood! Infidel Neighborhood shows you life…
How can a person who is outside of war, who does not feel war, internalize this destruction…
All the streets where I was born and where I grew up, those houses with stone eaves, were mercilessly showing me how the destructiveness of war occurred… To me, to us, even to all of us… Surasi Fatihpaşa, Surasi Hasırli, Cumhuriyet Primary School, When I say the Kursunlu Mosque, Surp Giragos and Virgin Mary Church where we played in the garden,my tears are flowing; I’m talking.
When the government and the Prime Minister said that the demolished houses in Suriçi would be expropriated and that TOKİ would build houses there,I was sure that the government would risk anything.
A ten thousand year old city and its culture have been completely destroyed now…
I was remembering a century ago. Did I listen to my elders too little… Just as Xenophon tells of the war of Ten Thousands, I laid my head on his knee and he would tell me while stroking my hair my life, my city where those happy Armenians lived and the deportation…
Immediately after the departure of Governor Celal Bey, whose duty ended on August 16, 1914 A fire broke out in the wheat market. The police did not allow the Armenian shopkeepers to go to their shops and even prevented them from doing so; however, they both allowed the Muslim shopkeepers and helped to extinguish the fire. The Armenians suffered great losses in this fire.
The real problem started with the appointment of Resit Bey, the former Unionist and even abuser when he was the Governor of Balikesir, to the Governorship of Diyarbakir.
Although there was no Armenian incident against the state in Diyarbakir, the governor brought with him two commanders who accompanied him everywhere he went. Rüstü and two Circassian commanders named Sakir and thirty reliable, fully equipped gendarmes… He dismissed them for connecting Armenian officials to political committees, even though no incidents had occurred under their supervision.
Meanwhile, Armenian soldiers had deserted and were wandering around the city. Considering this a rebellion, the security forces surrounded the Armenian neighborhoods on May 16, 1915. They went from house to house searching for fugitives and weapons, collected weapons and arrested over 500 Armenians.
Although Bishop Chalgadyan objected to this, they also arrested the school principaland the church board of trustees on the grounds that they were hiding 4 fugitives. However, although the Armenians had voluntarily surrendered the weaponsResit Pasha had done what was necessary by reporting lies by saying that we had captured them. There were exactly 980 Armenians under arrest and he pressured them to confess. However, no event had occurred to confess. Many of them died under torture.
Resit Pasha wanted to create a local and terrorist force loyal to himself. Prominent Unionists such as the local noblemen Cemilpasazade Mustafa and Kasım brothers, Yasinzade Sevki Bey, Pirinççizade Sitki Bey, Müftüzade Seref Bey, Deputy Fevzi Bey, and Letterman Bedri Bey took place in this force. Resit Pasha knew that he would solve this problem by deliberately keeping the army away... A city advisory board was formed and the support of the city was also obtained.
The available archive documents show that the job was taken directly by the government.
The first to be killed was Van Deputy Arsak Vramyan, who opposed all of this and was arrested by Resit Pasha. They said he was killed while fleeing. Bishop Migirdiç They arrested Chalgadyani on the grounds that he was the leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Organization, and then they said he hanged himself. However, the priest who buried him would say that his teeth were pulled out and that he was stabbed in the face.
On May 28, 1915, they sent 642 Armenians to Mosul via the Tigris and massacred them on the way.Then they killed Raman Chief Ömer Bey, who carried out this massacre. The corpses floating in the Tigris had already reached Mosul. Cemal Pasha warned Talat Pasha about this savagery. When many Armenians began to be killed, they blamed it on the tribes that were looting. The Urfa Sanjak opposed this situation and Celal Bey Resit criticized the Pasha. They found a solution in intimidating him.
Then everything came together like a piece of cake. Many well-known people and even deputies were sent to the Pasha to arrestVahan Papazyan, Hamparsum Boyaciyan,Agnuni, Zartaryan, Dagavaryan, Minasyan, Cangulyan, Zohrap and Serengulyan,SairTanyel Varujan, Adom Yarganyan… Deputies Zohrap and Vartkes Bey were murderedon the Urfa road.
Dr. In a short period of two months, Resit ruthlessly destroyed the ancient people of Diyarbakir. They made the young and beautiful girls and women their wives, saying it was permissible. That is why most of the old nobles' grandmothers and grandfathers were Armenian…
Pirinççizâde Feyzi Bey set out for Cizre on April 19, 1915. In all the villages, towns and towns he stopped by on the way, he told the Kurds and other Muslim communities that they should fulfill the requirements of Islam and that they should massacre the infidels and especially the Armenians without making any distinction between young and old, men and women. He also emphasizes that young and beautifulgirls should be excluded from this slaughter and that it is religiously permissible to marry them.
Armenian and Assyrian properties have played a leading role in the enrichment of many tribes living in Diyarbakir today. Yet, all of that property has Armenian and Assyrianhi . You can't overcome oppression, you know…
Diyarbakir was the capital of the massacre at that time, and it is the same today…
