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Ottoman-Albanian governor (1878-1955)
Not to be confused with the (unrelated) novel
Cevdet Bey ve Oğulları by
Orhan Pamuk - Note
Bey is a title and not a family name.
Djevdet Bey or Djevdet Tahir Belbez
[1] (1878 – January 15, 1955)
[2] was an
Ottoman
Albanian 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 .
[3]
Clarence Ussher , a witness to these events, reported that 55,000 Armenians were subsequently killed.
[4]
[5] Djevdet is also considered responsible for
massacres of Assyrians in the same region.
[6]
History
He was born in
Shkodra ,
Ottoman Empire , as the son of
Tahir Pasha Bibezić , who was a vali of Van,
Bitlis , and
Mosul .
[7] He also became the brother-in-law of
Enver Pasha .
[1] In 1914, as the
Kaymakam of the Sanjak of Hakkari, Djevdet worked closely together with the
Ottoman Secret Service to coordinate the defense against the Russians and possible offensives against the region around
Lake Urmia .
[8] He wrote to
Talaat Pasha that
Urmia could have been captured with some more support of his superiors.
[9] He succeeded
Hasan Tahsin Bey as Governor of the
Vilayet of Van in 1914.
[10] As such, he allied with the
Kurdish chieftain
Simko Shikak and ordered a massacre of about 800
Assyrians in
Salmas in March 1915.
[11] In July 1915, he led the massacre of the 15,000 Armenians of Bitlis.
[12]
Djevdet was a leader of the
Committee of Union and Progress (CUP)
[13] and the brother-in-law of
Enver Pasha .
[11]
Djevdet died on 15 January 1955.
In popular culture
He was portrayed by
Elias Koteas in the 2002 film
Ararat ,
[14] which received 2 Oscar nominations.
See also
Further reading
References
^
a
b
Sait Çetinoğlu ,
"Bir Osmanlı Komutanının Soykırım Güncesi"
Archived 2014-02-24 at the
Wayback Machine , Birikim , 09.04.2009. (in Turkish)
^
Selcuk Uzun ,
"1915 „Van İsyanı“ ve Vali Cevdet (Belbez) Bey" [
permanent dead link ] , Küyerel , 30.12.2011. (in Turkish)
^ Kévorkian, Raymond H. (2010).
The Armenian genocide : a complete history (Reprinted. ed.). London: I. B. Tauris. p. 321.
ISBN
978-1848855618 .
^ Steven Leonard Jacobs, ed. (2009).
Confronting genocide Judaism, Christianity, Islam . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. p. 130.
ISBN
978-0739135907 .
^ Rubenstein, Richard L. (2010).
Jihad and genocide (1st pbk. ed.). Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 51.
ISBN
978-0742562028 .
^ Travis, Hannibal (December 2006).
" "Native Christians Massacred": The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians during World War I" . International Association of Genocide Scholars . 1 (3): 343.
^ 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 .
^ Kaiser, Hilmar (2019). Kieser, Hans-Lukas Dieser; Anderson, Margaret Lavinia; Bayraktar, Seyhan; Schmutz, Thomas (eds.). The End of the Ottomans: The Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism . Bloomsbury Academic. p. 74.
ISBN
978-1-78831-241-7 .
^ Kaiser, Hilmar (2019). Kieser, Hans-Lukas Dieser; Anderson, Margaret Lavinia; Bayraktar, Seyhan; Schmutz, Thomas (eds.), p.77
^ Kaiser, Hilmar (2019). Kieser, Hans-Lukas Dieser; Anderson, Margaret Lavinia; Bayraktar, Seyhan; Schmutz, Thomas (eds.).pp.102–103
^
a
b Yuhanon, B. Beth (30 April 2018). "The Methods of Killing in the Assyrian Genocide".
Sayfo 1915 . Gorgias Press. p. 183.
doi :
10.31826/9781463239961-013 .
ISBN
9781463239961 .
S2CID
198820452 .
^
"Kaza Bitlis / Բաղեշ - Baghesh / ܒܝܬ ܕܠܝܣ Beṯ Dlis" . Virtual Genocide Memorial . Retrieved 2023-09-17 .
^ 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.
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