Djelal Munif Bey

Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, Henry Clews, and Djelal Munif Bey at Columbia University in 1914

Djelal Munif Bey (? - 1919) was the Turkish Muslim Ottoman Consul General to the United States in New York.[1] He was murdered or involved in a murder suicide in September 1919 in Budapest.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Turkish Official Denies Atrocities". New York Times. October 15, 1915. Retrieved 2011-03-04. Djelal Munif Bey, the Turkish Muslim Ottoman Consul General in New York, in an official statement to The Times yesterday declared the report made public a week ago last Sunday by the American Committee on Armenian Atrocities, which asserted that not in the one thousand years just ended had a people suffered such terrible outrages as are those the Turks are perpetrating upon the Armenians to be a fabrication. The report described the atrocities as being officially sanctioned from Constantinople, and it was stated that the situation was one involving an attempt to wipe out an entire race.
  2. ↑ "Djelal And His Wife Reported Murdered; But Lawyer Got Letter from Former Turkish Consul Saying Wife Committed Suicide". New York Times. December 23, 1919. Retrieved 2011-03-04. Djelal Munif Bey is remembered In New Fork because of his aim as well as because of his marriage to a divorcee, for which he was virtually banished from ...
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