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çetes
Çetes were Muslim armed Irregular military, irregular Brigandage, brigands who were active in Anatolia, Asia Minor after World War I. They were notorious for their assaults on Orthodoxy, Christian Orthodox Armenian genocide, Armenians, Greek genocide, Greeks, and Assyrian genocide, Assyrians during the 1910s and 1920s.Raymond Kevorkian. The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History', , I.B.Tauris, 2011.George N. Shirinian. Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923', , Berghahn Books, 2017. The term was also used as a synonym for members of the Special Organization (Ottoman Empire), Special Organization. References See also *Bashi-bazouk Armenian genocide Greek genocide Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) Turkish words and phrases History of the Ottoman Empire Military units and formations of the Ottoman Empire {{mil-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrian Genocide
The Sayfo or the Seyfo (; see below), also known as the Assyrian genocide, was the mass slaughter and deportation of Assyrian / Syriac Christians in southeastern Anatolia and Persia's Azerbaijan province by Ottoman forces and some Kurdish tribes during World War I. The Assyrians were divided into mutually antagonistic churches, including the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Church of the East, and the Chaldean Catholic Church. Before World War I, they lived in mountainous and remote areas of the Ottoman Empire (some of which were effectively stateless). The empire's nineteenth-century centralization efforts led to increased violence and danger for the Assyrians. Mass killing of Assyrian civilians began during the Ottoman occupation of Azerbaijan from January to May 1915, during which massacres were committed by Ottoman forces and pro-Ottoman Kurds. In Bitlis province, Ottoman troops returning from Persia joined local Kurdish tribes to massacre the local Christian population ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
