Djevdet Bey
Template:Distinguish2 Djevdet Bey, Jevdet Bey, Cevdet Belbez[1] (Modern Turkish: Cevdet Bey) was the governor of the Van vilayet of the Ottoman Empire during World War I and the Siege of Van. He is considered responsible for the massacres of Armenians in and around Van.[2] Clarence Ussher, a witness to these events, reported that 55,000 Armenians were subsequently killed.[3][4] He succeeded Governor Hasan Tahsin Bey.[citation needed] Djevdet was a leader of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP).[5]
He was portrayed by Elias Koteas in the 2002 film Ararat,[6] which received 2 Oscar nominations.
He was the brother-in-law of Enver Pasha[1] and son of Tahir Pasha, who was a vali of Van, Bitlis, and Mosul.[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b Sait Çetinoğlu, "Bir Osmanlı Komutanının Soykırım Güncesi", Birikim, 09.04.2009. Template:Tr icon
- ^ Kévorkian, Raymond H. (2010). The Armenian genocide : a complete history (Reprinted. ed.). London: I. B. Tauris. p. 321. ISBN 1848855613.
- ^ Steven Leonard Jacobs, ed. (2009). Confronting genocide Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. p. 130. ISBN 0739135902.
- ^ Rubenstein, Richard L. (2010). Jihad and genocide (1st pbk. ed.). Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 51. ISBN 0742562026.
- ^ Sukran Vahide (16 February 2012). Islam in Modern Turkey: An Intellectual Biography of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi. SUNY Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-7914-8297-1.
- ^ "Elias Koteas". IMDb.
- ^ Sukran Vahide (16 February 2012). Islam in Modern Turkey: An Intellectual Biography of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi. SUNY Press. pp. 27, 37. ISBN 978-0-7914-8297-1.
Further reading
- Arnold Toynbee (1916). The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire: Documents Presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon. Hodder and Stoughton.
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