Djevdet Bey

Cevdet Tahir Belbez
Personal details
Born1878 (1878)
İşkodra, Vilayet of Shkodër, Ottoman Empire (modern Albania)
Died15 January 1955(1955-01-15) (aged 77)
Istanbul, Turkey
ParentTahir Pasha (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 Cevdet Tahir Belbez (1878 – January 15, 1955) 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. Clarence Ussher, a witness to these events, reported that 55,000 Armenians were subsequently killed. Djevdet is also considered responsible for massacres of Assyrians in the same region.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.