Djevdet Bey

Djevdet Bey
Personal details
Born1878 (1878)
Krajë, Vilayet of Shkodër, Ottoman Empire (modern Montenegro)
Died1955 (aged 76–77)
ParentTahir Pasha Bibezić (father)
Not to be confused with the (unrelated) novel Cevdet Bey ve Oğulları by Orhan Pamuk - Note Bey is a title and not a family name.

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]

  1. ^ Sait Çetinoğlu, "Bir Osmanlı Komutanının Soykırım Güncesi" Archived 2014-02-24 at the Wayback Machine, Birikim, 09.04.2009. (in Turkish)
  2. ^ Selcuk Uzun, "1915 „Van İsyanı“ ve Vali Cevdet (Belbez) Bey"[permanent dead link], Küyerel, 30.12.2011. (in Turkish)
  3. ^ Kévorkian, Raymond H. (2010). The Armenian genocide : a complete history (Reprinted. ed.). London: I. B. Tauris. p. 321. ISBN 978-1848855618.
  4. ^ Steven Leonard Jacobs, ed. (2009). Confronting genocide Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. p. 130. ISBN 978-0739135907.
  5. ^ Rubenstein, Richard L. (2010). Jihad and genocide (1st pbk. ed.). Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 51. ISBN 978-0742562028.
  6. ^ Travis, Hannibal (December 2006). ""Native Christians Massacred": The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians during World War I". International Association of Genocide Scholars. 1 (3): 343.