PRESENTATION OUTLINE
March 3, 1915
Armenian soldiers in the Erzerum army area are deprived of their uniforms and arms.
March 12, 1915
- Massacres and robberies in the Alashkert District. (General Campaighn)
- Mass arrests of Armenians in Dortyol. Deaths
- Enver leaves for Berlin to see Kaiser Wilhelm
April 15, 1915-
- 24,000 Armenians has been killed in three days.
- Armenian leaders are killed. Vramian and Ishkhan
- information spreads about the death of Vramian and Ishkhan
- Armenians plan defense against sudden attack by Turks
- End of April 32,000 Armenians dead.
-April 18,1915
- Turkish civilians declare intentions to hold a meeting.
- Governor demands that Armenians in the city van surrendor their weapons.
April 17- May 23, 1915
- Deportations 25,000
- Deaths in public
- Arrests of people and leaders
- Prisoners
- Cremate 55,000 Arminians
May 6,1915
Young Turks had adopted a policy to annihilate Armenians
May 22, 1915
Turkish refugees settle in Armenian villages
June 23, 1915
- Commision of abonded goos oversay the
- settlements of the Turkish Muslim immagrents
June 24, 1915
They would through important Armenians into the black see to drown
Ambassador Henry Morgenthau reports that on this day Talaat told him that the Ittihad Committee had carefully considered in all its details the matter of crushing the Armenians, and that the policy which was being pursued was that which had been officially adopted. He also told Morgenthau that the deportations were not the result of hasty decisions but of careful and prolonged deliberation. Talaat, moreover, indicated that three quarters of the Armenians had already been disposed of, and none were left in Bitlis, Van, and Erzerum.
For six nights, Armenian prisoners, mostly intellectuals, held in Gok-Medrese in Sivas, which was a Seljuk structure in use as a temporary prison, were taken out and slain.
September 15, 1915
In a circular letter Talaat explains that the real intention of sending the Armenians to the Der-el-Zor (Deir el-Zor) Desert is to annihilate them.
October 12, 1915
Orders are issued forbidding marriage with Armenian women.
October 16,1915
Immunity from prosecution is guaranteed to those carrying out the massacres of the Armenians in Der-el-Zor (Deir el-Zor).
December 15, 1915
A circular telegram clarifies that the purpose of the deportations is annihilation.
A circular telegram, as a follow-up on the telegram of December 15, instructs that Armenians desiring to convert to Islam are to be notified that their Islamization must take place after they reach their final destination. In view of the earlier instructions clarifying the purpose of the deportations as annihilation, the new instructions imply that Armenians are no longer to be allowed to escape destruction for any reason.
