Chronology of the Armenian Genocide -- 1916 (January-June)
1915-1916, corpse of young Armenian adult male killed and stripped naked lying along a dirt road. Injuries to the head and lower chest are visible. Location: Ottoman empire, region Syria.
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Armenians are marched to a nearby prison in Mezireh by armed Turkish soldiers. Kharpert, Armenia, Ottoman Empire - April, 1915.January 1 The Armenian deportees concentrated in Suruj District, near Urfa, are sent out toward Der-el-Zor (Deir el-Zor) under very severe winter conditions, completely lacking food, shelter, and suitable clothing.
January 5 Mustafa Abdulhalik Renda seeks to oust Ali Suad, the Arab governor of Der-el-Zor (Deir el-Zor) District for lack of severity by applying directly to Talaat.
January 8 The immediate deportation to the desert of the Armenians working on the railroads or in railway construction is ordered.
January 11 Instructions are sent to prevent foreign officers from photographing dead Armenians.
January 13 U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau during his farewell visit with Talaat is told of the pointlessness of speaking about the Armenians.
January 15 A second circular telegram is issued by the Interior Ministry to prevent photographing of the dead.
January 17 The governor-general of Aleppo is instructed to send the Armenians deported from the northern provinces directly to their final destinations.
January 23 The governor-general of Aleppo informs Talaat that only 10% of the Armenian deportees remain alive, and that measures are being taken to dispose of them also.
January A French translation of a spurious book prepared by Talaat's office charging the Armenians with treason and revolution is published.
January 23 to March 10 During this period of 47 days, of 486,000 Armenian deportees, 364,500 are reported to have been killed by the Turks or to have died because of the hardships of the deportations.
January 24 The War Ministry orders all Armenian soldiers remaining alive in the Turkish armies to be converted to Islam and to be circumcised.
January 24 The governor-general of Aleppo orders the vice-governor of Aintab to deport the remaining Armenian women in Aintab.
January 26 German Marshal Colmar von der Goltz is appointed Commander of the Eastern Front.
January 28 A circular telegram orders the destruction of orphans.
January 29 50,000 Armenian remnants are reported concentrated at Intille (Intili).
January 29 The Interior Ministry provisionally exempts from deportation Armenians needed for the running of the railways. Their families and children, however, are ordered to be deported to the desert.
January 29 The Interior Ministry orders the deportation of the Armenians constructing roads as soon as the construction work is finished.
January 31 The vice-governor of Aintab District informs the governor-general of Aleppo Province that the Armenian women and children have been handed over to Kurds.
January 31 In a period of two and a half days, 1,029 Armenians die of the rigors of the deportations in the town of Bab, northeast of Aleppo.
February 3 According to Lord Bryce, 486,000 Armenians deportees were still living: 100,000 were to be found between Damascus and Maan, 12,000 at Hama, 20,000 at Homs, 7,000 at Aleppo, 4,000 at Maara, 8,000 at Bab, 5,000 at Munbij (Munbuj), 20,000 at Ras-el-Ain (Ras ul-Ain), 10,000 at Rakka, and 300,000 at Zor.
February 3 A circular telegram instructs that orphans who do not remember their parents be send from Aleppo to Sivas; the rest are to be send to Der-el-Zor (Deir el-Zor) and no expenditures are to be made for their existence.
February 4 Marshal Liman von Sanders replaces Marshal Colmar von der Goltz as Commander of the Caucasian, or Eastern, Front.
February 9 Mustafa Abdulhalik Renda, the governor-general of Aleppo Province, and the Aleppo Commissioner of Police begin to remove 10,000 Armenian deportees from the environs of Aleppo.
February 9 The commander of the labor battalions for the railroad in Cilicia is instructed to deport the wives of the workers and to tell them that their husbands will follow them.
February 10 The deportation commissioner in Aleppo requests funds from the Interior Ministry to cover to the expenses of destroying the orphans.
February 10 Erzberger, a German Reichstag representative, visits Enver and Talaat, to protest the massacres and the excesses of the deportations.
February 14 50,000 Armenians are reported murdered at Intille (Intili).
February 14 On this date 50,000 deportees are reported at Ras-el-Ain (Ras ul-Ain).
February 16 An American application to send relief to the Armenians is rejected by Turkey.
February 16 Talaat sends a circular letter to Urfa, Aintab and Kilis requesting documents to indict the Armenians.
February 16 The Russian Army occupies Erzerum. Only a handful of captive Armenian women are found alive in the entire province.
February Marshal Liman von Sanders claims to have stopped the deportation of many Armenians from Adrianople (Edirne).
February Tahir Jevdet, Enver's brother-in-law, the governor-general of Van Province, travels via Ras-el-Ain (Ras ul-Ain) to Adana, where shortly before he had been appointed governor-general, replacing Ismail Hakki.
February 16 U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing asks the German Ambassador Bernstorff to stop the Armenian tragedy.
February 22 Henry Morgenthau arrives in New York.
February 23 Count Wolff-Metternich, the German ambassador in Turkey, visits Talaat and Halil Bey, the newly-appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, to discuss the Armenian Question with them because of the representations of the United States to the German government.
February 28 A few Armenian soldiers in Turkish Army in Aleppo are forcibly converted to Islam.
March 1 The second deportation of the Armenians of Adrianople (Edirne) begins.
March 1 The Interior Ministry is informed from Aleppo that the Armenians who fled from Mardin had been killed.
March 4 A circular telegram instructs that Armenians of military age are to be put to work only outside inhabited areas.
March 10 A report is send to the Interior Ministry from Aleppo informing that 75% of the Armenians previously in the desert are now dead, and only 25% remain alive.
March 14 Kerim Refi, described as a very savage Rumelian Turk, who is appointed vice-governor of Ras-el-Ain (Ras ul-Ain) arrives from Constantinople. He speeds up the massacres of the Armenian deportees concentrated in Ras-el-Ain (Ras ul-Ain), which had gotten off to a slow start. The massacres extend over a period of five months. Kerim Refi utilizes primarily chete forces, including one extremely wild tribe of Circassians.
March 20 Talaat is informed from Aleppo that 95,000 Armenians had died from sickness and other causes in the past week: 30,000 in Ras-el-Ain (Ras ul-Ain), 35,000 in Bab and Meskene, 10,000 in Karluk (Karlik), and 20,000 in Dipsi, Abu Herir (Abuharar), and Hama.
March 20 Instructions are sent to seize the Armenian orphans with the pretext of giving them food and to kill them.
March 23 In Aleppo an attempt is made to force all Armenian soldiers in labor corps to become Muslims and to give up their Armenian names.
March 29 The Turkish government officially rejects foreign relief for the Armenian deportees.
April 6 14,000 Armenians are massacred in Ras-el-Ain (Ras ul-Ain). 24,000 deportees are reported still living in Ras-el-Ain (Ras ul-Ain).
April 14 By this date, 70,000 Armenians are reported massacred at Ras-el-Ain (Ras ul-Ain).
April 15 The Russian Army occupies Trebizond. With the exception of a few Armenian orphans and widows secretly sheltered by Greeks, no Armenians are found in the city.
April 15 A battalion of the Turkish 4th Army Engineers arrives in Ras-el-Ain (Ras ul-Ain) from Damascus to assist in massacring the Armenians.
April 15 19,000 Armenian deportees arrive near the Khabur River.
April 16 The New York Times reports that German Catholics had placed the number of massacred Armenians at 1,000,000, and that they held England at fault for this great crime.
April 19 50 to 100 Armenian deportees are reported to be dying of starvation every day in Meskene, Abu Herir (Abuharar), Sabkha (Sebka), and Hammam (Hamam).
April 28 The Turkish government again rejects foreign relief for the Armenians.
May 3 According to The New York Times, before the fall of Erzerum, 15,000 Armenians had been massacred in the nearby town of Mamakhatun, west of the city of Erzerum.
May 10 Shaikh-ul-Islam (Turkish religious chief) Khairi resigns under pressure. Musa Kiazim, a war criminal, succeeds him as Shaikh-ul-Islam and as Minister of Pious Foundations.
May 12 1,400 Armenian orphans are distributed to various places by the Ittihad Committees.
May 21 News is received concerning the fate of 19,000 deportees in one caravan, of whom 16,500 are reported killed on the banks of the Khabur River, northeast of Der-el-Zor (Deir el-Zor), and 2,500 survivors are reported having arrived at Mosul.
May 72,000 Armenian deportees are reported in Der-el-Zor (Deir el-Zor) District.
May 24 The New York Times reports that 80,000 Armenians had died of starvation around Damascus.
May 30 60,000 Armenian deportees are reported scattered between Hejaz District in central Arabia and Aleppo in northern Syria.
June 3 The report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions on the massacres of Erzerum is published.
June 7 All the Armenians remaining in the Aleppo area are ordered to leave for Der-el-Zor (Deir el-Zor).
June The Arab governor of Der-el-Zor (Deir el-Zor) District, Ali Suad, is sent to Baghdad for refusing to carry out the extermination of the deportees. He is replaced by Salih Zeki, the former vice-governor of Everek in Kayseri Province, reputed for his cruelty.
June 20
The Armenians working in labor corps in Sivas are instructed to convert to Islam. At least 95% refuse.
June 25 7,000 Armenian soldiers stationed in Sivas are imprisoned for nine days in the old Seljuk buildings where formerly the civilian Armenian leaders and intellectuals had been imprisoned before being killed.
June 30 Ambassador von Wolff-Metternich reports to the German Chancellor that Ittihad is devouring the remaining Armenian refugees.
June 30 On the argument that those who refuse are going to be deported into the desert again, the proposal is made to the Armenian labor battalions in Damascus and to the civilian deportees that they become Muslims. Very few Armenians accept.
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Chronology Of The Armenian Genocide -- 1916 (january-june)
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