| Shabin-Karahisar Resistance |
| Part of Armenian Resistance |
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June 2-June 30, 1915 |
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Castle at Şebinkarahisar |
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Suppression of the Resistance and massacre of the rest of the Armenians. |
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| Ottoman Empire |
Hunchaks (members of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party) |
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Hamparsum Boyajian |
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The Genocide
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Armenian population
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Shabin-Karahisar uprising[1] (June 2-June 30, 1915) was the resistance of the Armenian militia of the Hunchaks of the Giresun Province.[2][3] They had resisted the Ottoman onslaught for a duration of a month.[2]
News of the massacres in other regions of Western Armenia made the people of Shabin-Karahisar think that their "turn" was coming soon. In April, 1915, hundreds of young men were suddenly imprisoned. In June, 1915, the region's Armenian religious leader was executed. Then, 200 Armenian merchants were killed as a part of a systematic campaign of genocide by the Ottoman authorities.
The able-bodied Armenians of Shabin-Karahisar thus decided to confront the Ottomans. They started by burning their own homes and fortified themselves in a nearby castle. Many Ottoman soldiers fell those days. After weeks of confrontation, the Armenian militia had no ammunition left. They decided to come out from the castle and fight with their own bare hands. Now, there were only women, children, and elderly in the city, who were all massacred following the resistance's suppression.[4]
Shabin Karahisar`(Şebinkarahisar) was the birthplace of Andranik Toros Ozanian.
The resistance at Shabin Karahisar was chronicled by Aram Haigaz, who survived the siege and subsequent deportation, in his book The Fall of the Airie. The book is an oft cited eyewitness account of the events.
- ^ Richard G. Hovannisian, The Armenian Genocide: History, Politics, Ethics, Palgrave Macmillan, 1992, ISBN 9780312048471, p. 289.
- ^ a b Simon Payaslian, "The Armenian Resistance at Shabin-Karahisar in 1915" 5th International conferences on Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces
- ^ Richard G. Hovannisian, Armenian Sebastia/Sivas and Lesser Armenia, Mazda Publishers, 2004, ISBN 9781568591520, p. 399.
- ^ Translated from the Armenian: Mihran Kurdoghlian, Badmoutioun Hayots, C. hador [Armenian History, volume III], Athens, Greece, 1996, pg. 93.
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Armenian Resistance
(late 19th century - early 20th century)
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| World War I |
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