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Miscellaneous materials on Armenian massacres, 1918

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    Title The Collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Partition of the Middle East, 1879–1919
    Rights Images © 2009 published by Microform Academic Publishers with permission of Sir Tatton Sykes & Hull University Archives
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    This collection is drawn from the personal papers of Mark Sykes (1879-1919), a politician and diplomatic advisor famous for his role in the partition of the Middle East around the period of the First World War. He is best known for his role in the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, which was a secret treaty between European powers that divided up the Ottoman Empire in the face of its impending collapse.

    In addition to material related to the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the papers focus on Sykes’ experience in military intelligence and diplomacy in the Middle East, both before and during the First World War. This includes touching on such historic events like the Armenian genocide as well as international debates around Zionism and the creation of a Jewish homeland. As an avid explorer, of a more personal nature are his notebooks, which offer an insight into the experience of an aristocratic traveler in the Middle East during the early 20th century.
    ISBN 9781851171507
    Contributor Hull University Archives
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    Coverage 1879-1919
    Created On 23rd April, 2009 - 2:27pm
    Last Updated 8th July, 2026 - 8:55am
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    Title Foreign affairs and travel, 1888-1919
    Rights Images © 2009 published by Microform Academic Publishers with permission of Sir Tatton Sykes & Hull University Archives
    Description Integral to this part of the collection are a large number of printed and sketched maps of western Asia (e.g. DDSY2/4/67-80, DDSY2/4/204-216), many annotated or shaded, showing the progress of talks towards the Sykes-Picot Agreement.
    ISBN DDSY2-04
    Contributor Hull University Archives
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    Identifier https://britishonlinearchives.com/collections/542/volumes/52/foreign-affairs-and-travel-1888-1919
    Source The Collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Partition of the Middle East, 1879–1919
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    Language eng
    Publisher British Online Archives
    Coverage 1888-1919
    Created On 23rd April, 2009 - 2:27pm
    Last Updated 18th November, 2019 - 7:00pm
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    Title Miscellaneous materials on Armenian massacres, 1918
    Rights Images © 2009 published by Microform Academic Publishers with permission of Sir Tatton Sykes & Hull University Archives
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    Description DDSY(2)/4/194: Notes and evidence taken on the Armenian massacres in 1915, taken by Mark Sykes, 1918.-- DDSY(2)/4/195: Ticket to the Armenian concert, [Aleppo?], 8 December 1918.-- DDSY(2)/4/196: Lists of Armenian émigrés and internees (2), [s.d.]. -- DDSY(2)/4/197: Place card, menu and note accompanying gift of flowers for meal organised by Armenian refugees, [s.d.].
    ISBN DDSY2-04-194
    Contributor Hull University Archives
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    Identifier https://britishonlinearchives.com/documents/542/miscellaneous-materials-on-armenian-massacres-1918
    Source Foreign affairs and travel, 1888-1919
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    Language eng
    Publisher British Online Archives
    Coverage 1915-1918
    Created On 23rd April, 2009 - 2:32pm
    Last Updated 7th May, 2024 - 4:18pm
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    Title img 1: DDSY(2)/4/194
    Rights Images © 2009 published by Microform Academic Publishers with permission of Sir Tatton Sykes & Hull University Archives
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    Description DDSY(2)/4/194: Notes and evidence taken on the Armenian massacres in 1915, taken by Mark Sykes, 1918.-- DDSY(2)/4/195: Ticket to the Armenian concert, [Aleppo?], 8 December 1918.-- DDSY(2)/4/196: Lists of Armenian émigrés and internees (2), [s.d.]. -- DDSY(2)/4/197: Place card, menu and note accompanying gift of flowers for meal organised by Armenian refugees, [s.d.].
    text Notes on Armenian Massacres. 000 The following notes on Armenian massacres which took place between April and August 1915, were supplied by an eye-witness, of the first Turkish expeditionary , division, which was under the command of Khelil Pasha, an uncle of Enver Boy. Lieutenant in Roumia, Dilman, Shinoa, Van, Bitlis, ZaBart, and Akhlat. He stated that, during the operations of his divisions in Persia it was accompanied by a band of some 500 comitadjis, Turks and Kurds, led by a certain Aslan Bey, whose one duty was to slaughter Armenians. The comitadjis killed the men first, then the women and children; after which their dwellings were looted and burnt. At one place, Gavar, a small village on the Turco-Persian frontier, Aslan received the order to kill all Armenians. The men were first driven outside the village and shot in batches, and then the women and children were massacred, the offer of the women to become Moslems being rejected. In May 1915, on moving west, Khalil dispensed with the services of the comitadjis, preferring to make use of his own soldiers. A regiment was sent to Za'art with orders to kill the Armenians, who were shot on a hill outside the town; two days later, when marched past this hill, he saw that it was strewn with Armenians corpses. on his way to Bitlis he saw a party of Armenian women, escorted by endarmes. A woman with two children was unable to keep up with the rest, so a gendarme took up the elder child and killed it by striking its head against a rock, then he took the baby by the legs and split it in two, and finally killed the mother by striking her on the head with the butt of his rifle. At Bitlis large bodies of Armenians, after being thrown into wide trenches, were shot at close range; the trenches were then filled up, and all who had not been killed outright buried alive. After leaving Bitlis, Khalil carried out the massacres systematically. He sent detachments of 250 men to the various villages, with instructions to destroy them and to kill all the Armenians living therein. Khalil further ordered that a number of influential Armenians should be. hanged: forty were so hanged on telegraph poles in the The massacres were not confined to the civilian population: officers and men serving in the Turkish army were murdered solely because they were Armenians. Two officers and 250 men in division were so shot, without trial, by order of Khalil Pasha. Armenian prisoners of war, too, even when Russian subjects, were 000 (1910) Lieutenant Lieutenant camp outside Bitlis. invariably shot. was present at massacres
    ISBN DDSY2-04-194
    Contributor Hull University Archives
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    Identifier https://britishonlinearchives.com/documents/542/miscellaneous-materials-on-armenian-massacres-1918
    Source Foreign affairs and travel, 1888-1919
    Creator
    Language eng
    Publisher British Online Archives
    Coverage 1915-1918
    Created On 23rd April, 2009 - 2:32pm
    Last Updated 7th May, 2024 - 4:18pm
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