Urfa Resistance

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Urfa Resistance
Part of Armenian Resistance
Date September 29-October 20, 1915 Location Urfa Result The resistance was thwarted following German intervention and the Ottoman Empire continued its genocidal campaign in the region.
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire Germany	Armenian residents of Urfa
Commanders
	Mgrdich Yotneghparian
Casualties and losses
?	?

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: Bitlis · Deir ez-Zor · Diyarbakır · Erzurum · Kharput · Muş · Sivas · Trabzon
Resistance: Zeitun  · Van · Musa Dagh · Urfa · Shabin-Karahisar  · Armenian militia  · Operation Nemesis
Foreign aid and relief: American Committee for Relief in the Near East · National Armenian Relief Committee
Responsible parties
Young Turks: Talat · Enver · Djemal · Behaeddin Shakir · Committee of Union and Progress · Teskilati Mahsusa · The Special Organization · Ottoman Army · Kurdish Irregulars · Reşit Bey · Cevdet Bey · Topal Osman
Trials
Courts-Martial  · Malta Tribunals  · Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian
Aftermath
Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire · Denial of the Genocide · Post-Genocide timeline
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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]

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