Defense of Azakh

Midyat Rebellion
Part of the Assyrian and the Armenian genocide

Location of modern Azakh (İdil) district
DateAugust 18, 1915 – November 21, 1915 (3 months and 3 days)
Location
Azakh, Ottoman Empire
37°20′30″N 41°53′30″E / 37.34167°N 41.89167°E / 37.34167; 41.89167
Result

Assyrian-Armenian victory[2]

  • Short-term Kurdish and local Muslim forces victory[3]
  • Kurdish and local Muslim forces initially captured Azakh in the summer of 1915, however were pushed back weeks later.[3]
  • Ottoman Forces withdrawn from Azakh.
Belligerents

Assyrian volunteers

Armenian defenders

 Ottoman Empire

Commanders and leaders
Işo Hanna Gabre Ömer Naci Bey
Units involved

Azakh National Assembly

  • "Christ's Fedayi" (Those who sacrifise for Christ.)

Ottoman army

Strength
1,000+ (mostly Assyrians but also including few Armenians)[2] Several thousand men
Casualties and losses
1,200 Christians were killed during the siege.[1] Unknown, probably heavy

The village of Azakh (Syriac: ܐܙܟ, romanized: Azakh) was one of the few remaining pockets of resistance during the Sayfo that the Ottoman authorities called the "Midyat Rebellion" named after Midyat, the largest Assyrian town in Tur Abdin.[1]

  1. ^ a b c H. Kévorkian, Raymond (November 1, 2020). Collective and State Violence in Turkey. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78920-451-3.
  2. ^ a b "آغا بطرس: سنحاريب القرن العشرين" (PDF). نينوس نيراري. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 12, 2018.
  3. ^ a b In Times of Genocide 1915–2015