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ARMENIAN POPULATION
SUBJECTED TO RELOCATION
The numbers of the Armenians,
subjected to relocation was controlled from their departure
until their arrival, between June 9, 1915 and February 8,
1916. The figures below are taken from pertinent Ottoman documents
(1)
| . |
Transferred |
Remained |
|
Adana (2)
|
14.000
|
15-16.000
|
|
Ankara (Central)(3)
|
21.236
|
733
|
|
Aydin(4)
|
250
|
-
|
|
Birecik(5)
|
1.200
|
-
|
|
Diyarbakir(6)
|
20.000
|
-
|
|
Dörtyol(7)
|
9.000
|
-
|
|
Erzurum(8)
|
5.500
|
-
|
|
Eskisehir(9)
|
7.000
|
-
|
|
Giresun(10)
|
328
|
-
|
|
Görele
|
250
|
-
|
|
Aleppo(11)
|
26.064
|
-
|
|
Haymana(12)
|
60
|
-
|
|
Izmir(13)
|
256
|
-
|
|
Izmit(14)
|
58.000
|
-
|
|
Kal’acik(15)
|
257
|
-
|
|
Karahisari sahib(16)
|
5.769
|
2nd 222
|
|
Kayseri(17)
|
45.036
|
4.911
|
|
Keskin
|
1.169
|
-
|
|
Kirsehir(18)
|
747
|
-
|
|
Konya(19)
|
1.900
|
-
|
|
Kütahya(20)
|
1.400
|
-
|
|
Mamuretülaziz(21)
|
51.000
|
4.000
|
|
Maras(22)
|
-
|
8.845
|
|
Nallihan
|
479
|
-
|
|
Ordu
|
36
|
-
|
|
Persembe
|
390
|
-
|
|
Sivas(23)
|
136.084
|
6.055
|
|
Sungurlu
|
576
|
.
|
|
Sürmene
|
290
|
.
|
|
Tirebolu
|
45
|
.
|
|
Trabzon(24)
|
3.400
|
.
|
|
Ulubey
|
30
|
.
|
|
Yozgat(25)
|
10.916
|
.
|
|
TOTAL
|
422.758
|
32.766
|
| .
|
.
|
.
|
On the other hand, in the telegraph
sent by the Director of Immigrants and Tribe Placement, Sükrü
Bey on October 18th 1915, notified that “the number
of the Armenians transported to Aleppo was about 100.000,
among these, 25.000 were settled in Rakka and Zor, 3000 were
settled in the south of Aleppo and the remaining would be
settled in Kerek and Havran surroundings (26).
Meanwhile, it is understood
from the records that an Armenian population of 120.000 people
gathered in Diyarbekir as of September 18th 1915
and an Armenian population of 136.084 people gathered in Cizre
as of September 28th 1915 to be sent to Musul and
Zor region (27). In a coded telegraph sent by Sükrü
Bey from Nizip on November 3, 1915, it is expressed that transportation
continued in a regular manner (28).
Among the population included
as the displaced population in the list given herein above,
but indicated not to have been transported yet, the ones in
Adana have been transported to the new settlement regions
later (29). Hence, the transported population and
the population reaching the settlement region seem to be almost
equal. The total of the immigrated population is 438.758 and
the population safely arrived to new settlements is 382.148.
(30)
REFERENCE:
Halacoglu, Prof. Dr. Yusuf, Facts Relating to the Armenian
Relocation (1915), TTK Publication, Ankara, 2001.
FOOTNOTES
1) DH, EUM. 2nd Branch, File 1, document 38,
40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 51, 55, 64 (see document 152,
185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 194, 200, 206).
2) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/77 (Ek-XXII).
3) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/77 (Ek-XXII).
4) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.69/250.
5) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/101.
6) In these documents the
number of the Armenians of Diyarbakir is not mentioned. It
was estimated that from this city 20.000 Armenians were relocated.
7) DH. EUM. 2nd branch,
number.68/89.
8) Code. number. 54/1629)
DH. EUM. 2nd Branch, number.68/72nd
10) Giresun, Persembe, Ulubey,
Sürmene, Tirebolu, Ordu ve Görele ayni vesikada verilmistir
(Bkz. DH. EUM. 2nd Branch, number.68/41).
11) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/76.
12) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/66.
13) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.69/260.
14) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/67 (Ek-XXIV)
15) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/79
16) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/73.
17) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/75 (Ek-XXV).
18) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/66.
19) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.69/34.
20) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/93.
21) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/70 (Ek-XXVII).
22) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/41.
23) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/84 (Ek-XXVII).
24) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/41.
25) DH. EUM. 2nd Branch,
number.68/66.
26) DH, EUM, 2nd
Branch, 68/80
27)DH, EUM,
2nd Branch, 68/71; 2nd branch 68/84
(see document 192, 200).
28) DH, EUM, 2nd
Branch, 68/101 (see document 217).
29) 26.064 Armenians in
Aleppo included in the population subjected to the displacement
application were not included in the immigrated Armenians.
Since, the ones that reached to the new settlement region
consisted of the Armenians sent from Anatolia. On the other
hand, although it is notified that the number of the people
that have come to Aleppo was approximately one hundred thousand
(see DH, EUM, 2nd branch, 68/80), the population
coming to that region has been taken to be 100.000.
30) DH.EUM, 2nd
Branch, File 1, document 45/1-1 (see document 57).
See document 687.
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