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Adana, massacres of 20,000 Armenians 1909

A book providing a fresh insight into the history of the Armenian Genocide has been published in Turkey to introduce witness testimonies depicting the massacres of 20,000 Armenians.
Entitled “1909 Adana Pogroms: Three Reports”, the book comprises three major documents which gained importance after wide-ranging debates in Ottoman Empire and worldwide. It sheds light on the pogroms that started from Adana and later expanded to Kilis and Zeytun. Ari Shekerian has translated the book from the Ottoman language. It also contains photos taken in more than 40 regions.

The author of the preface is Turkish historian Tener Akcam. The reports by Karapet Chalian, Artin Aslanian and Hakob Papikian were published 106 years after the mass killings.
The authors’ biographies add interest to the historic records.

Papikyan, who was in a fact-finding mission dispatched to Adana after the pogroms, passed away in rather suspicious circumstances a day before the report was made public.

Chalian, who was considered a founder of Ittihat ve Teraki (secret society established as the Committee of Ottoman Union), was killed in 1920. Aslanian rejected to give any testimony and later fled to Egypt, where he wrote the report.

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Ari’s Şekeryan compiled and translated from the Ottoman ‘1909 Adana Massacre: Three Report titled book, which was immediately followed by three important reports pen Ottoman massacre major impact in the world and brings together. In the book, offered more than 40 photographs of the period.

Çalyan weirdness of the ‘Island of the case and accountable’, Artin Arslanian ‘How was convicted in Adana Justice?’ and Hagop Babigyan the ‘Adana’ Report consisting of the report and until released by Taner Akcam’s preface to the book, Calvin and Arslanian, in their report on the insiders of events 106 then transports the reader for the first time in Turkish. The Babigyan’s report contains important observations about the destruction of responsibility and government officials across the province.

Biography of the writer, reports makes it even more interesting. After the massacre of Deputies-located Edirne deputy of the first investigative commission sent to Adana by the Deputies Babigy, presenting the book with the reports in Parliament suspiciously lost their lives in the day before; While Calvin is one of the founders of the Union and Progress Party in Adana in 1920 and have been involved in the defense of pilgrims were killed after the fall of the city. Arslanian also rejected the request to testify about the massacre fled to Egypt and there he wrote the report.