Urfa resistance

Urfa resistance
Urfa uprising

Participants in the resistance
Date29 September 1915 - 15/20 October 1915
Location
Urfa, Ottoman Empire
Result Armenian victory [1]
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire Ottoman Armenians

The Urfa resistance (Armenian: Ուրֆայի հերոսամարտի, Turkish: Urfa İsyanı) was an effort by some Ottoman Armenians in Urfa to defend themselves against the Armenian genocide launched by the Ottoman Empire. The resistance was quelled following German intervention.[2]

  1. ^ ՈՒՐՖԱՅԻ ՀԵՐՈՍԱՄԱՐՏԸ (in Armenian).
  2. ^ Kurdoghlian, Mihran (1996). Badmoutioun Hayots, Volume III (in Armenian). Athens, Greece: Hradaragoutioun Azkayin Oussoumnagan Khorhourti. pp. 93–95.