Djevdet Bey Explained

Djevdet Bey
Birth Place:Krajë, Vilayet of Shkodër, Ottoman Empire (modern Montenegro)
Parents:Tahir Pasha Bibezić (father)

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.

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

Notes and References

  1. [Sait Çetinoğlu]
  2. [Selcuk Uzun]
  3. Book: Kévorkian, Raymond H.. The Armenian genocide : a complete history. 2010. I. B. Tauris. London. 978-1848855618. 321. Reprinted..
  4. Book: Confronting genocide Judaism, Christianity, Islam. 2009. Lexington Books. Lanham, MD. 978-0739135907. 130. Steven Leonard Jacobs.
  5. Book: Rubenstein, Richard L.. Jihad and genocide. 2010. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Lanham, Md.. 978-0742562028. 51. 1st pbk..
  6. Travis . Hannibal . "Native Christians Massacred": The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians during World War I . International Association of Genocide Scholars . December 2006 . 1 . 3 . 343 .
  7. Book: Sukran Vahide. Islam in Modern Turkey: An Intellectual Biography of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi. 16 February 2012. SUNY Press. 978-0-7914-8297-1. 27, 37.
  8. Book: Kaiser, Hilmar. The End of the Ottomans: The Genocide of 1915 and the Politics of Turkish Nationalism. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. 978-1-78831-241-7. Kieser. Hans-Lukas Dieser. 74. en. Anderson. Margaret Lavinia. Bayraktar. Seyhan. Schmutz. Thomas.
  9. Kaiser, Hilmar (2019). Kieser, Hans-Lukas Dieser; Anderson, Margaret Lavinia; Bayraktar, Seyhan; Schmutz, Thomas (eds.), p.77
  10. Kaiser, Hilmar (2019). Kieser, Hans-Lukas Dieser; Anderson, Margaret Lavinia; Bayraktar, Seyhan; Schmutz, Thomas (eds.).pp.102–103
  11. Book: Yuhanon, B. Beth . Sayfo 1915 . 183 . The Methods of Killing in the Assyrian Genocide. 30 April 2018 . Gorgias Press . 10.31826/9781463239961-013 . 9781463239961 . 198820452 .
  12. Web site: Kaza Bitlis / Բաղեշ - Baghesh / ܒܝܬ ܕܠܝܣ Beṯ Dlis . 2023-09-17 . Virtual Genocide Memorial . en-US.
  13. Book: Sukran Vahide. Islam in Modern Turkey: An Intellectual Biography of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi. 16 February 2012. SUNY Press. 978-0-7914-8297-1. 30.
  14. Web site: Elias Koteas. IMDb.

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