Urfa Resistance
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please discuss this issue on the talk page or replace this tag with a more specific message. This article has been tagged since March 2007. |
| Urfa Resistance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of Armenian Resistance | |||||||
|
|||||||
| Combatants | |||||||
| Ottoman Empire Germany |
Armenian volunteer units | ||||||
| Commanders | |||||||
| Mgrdich Yotneghparian | |||||||
| Casualties | |||||||
| ? | ? | ||||||
| Armenian Genocide |
|---|
| Background |
| Armenians in the Ottoman Empire · Armenian Question · Hamidian Massacres · Zeitun Resistance (1895) · 1896 Ottoman Bank Takeover · Yıldız Attempt · Adana Massacre · Young Turk Revolution |
| The Genocide |
|
Armenian notables deported from the Ottoman capital · Tehcir Law · Armenian casualties of deportations · Ottoman Armenian casualties · Labour battalion |
|
Major extermination centers: |
|
Resistance: |
|
Foreign aid and relief: |
| Responsible parties |
|
Young Turks: |
| Aftermath |
| Courts-Martial · Operation Nemesis · Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire · Denial of the Genocide
|
The Armenian resistance in Urfa during the Armenian genocide took place as a reaction to Turkish actions. The resistance was quelled following German intervention.[1]
In May 27, 1915, hundreds of Armenians were captured by Ottoman authorities in Urfa. The rest sat in a meeting in order to figure a way out of the problem. People thought of many different things, but Mgrdich Yotneghparian and his partisans were some of the few who preferred to fight till death instead of ceding to the enemy. Previous events like the Adana massacre made him increasingly cautious of the new Young Turk government and the Turkish constitution.[1]
The charismatic Mugerditch, the resistance of the Armenian fighters in the heavily fortified stone houses lasted sixteen days and was finally broken only with the help of a newly arrived contringent of six thousand Turkish troops equipped with heavy artillery.[2]
