Shabin-Karahisar Resistance

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Shabin-Karahisar Resistance
Part of Armenian Resistance
Date June 2-June 30, 1915
Location Castle at Şebinkarahisar
Result Suppression of the Resistance and massacre of the rest of the Armenians.
Combatants
Ottoman Empire Hunchaks (members of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party)
Armenian Genocide
Background
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire · Armenian Question · Hamidian Massacres · Zeitun Resistance (1895) · 1896 Ottoman Bank Takeover · Yıldız Attempt · Adana Massacre · Young Turk Revolution
The Genocide

Armenian notables deported from the Ottoman capital · Tehcir Law · Armenian casualties of deportations · Ottoman Armenian casualties  · Labour battalion

Major extermination centers:
Bitlis · Deir ez-Zor · Diyarbakır · Erzurum · Kharput · Muş · Sivas · Trabzon

Resistance:
Zeitun  · Van · Musa Dagh · Urfa · Shabin-Karahisar · Armenian militia

Foreign aid and relief:
Reactions · American Committee for Relief in the Near East
Responsible parties

Young Turks:
Talat · Enver · Djemal · Committee of Union and Progress · Teskilati Mahsusa · The Special Organization · Ottoman Army · Kurdish Irregulars · Topal Osman
Aftermath
Courts-Martial · Operation Nemesis · Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire · Denial of the Genocide
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Shabin-Karahisar resistance (June 2-June 30, 1915) was the resistance of the Armenian militia of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (Hunchaks) of the Giresun Province. They had resisted the Ottoman onslaught for a duration of a month.[1]

News of the massacres in other regions of Western Armenia made the people of Shabin-Karahisar think that their "turn" was coming soon. In April, 1915, hundreds of young men were suddenly imprisoned. In June, 1915, the region's Armenian religious leader was executed. Then, 200 Armenian merchants were killed as a part of a systematic campaign of genocide by the Ottoman authorities.

The able-bodied Armenians of Shabin-Karahisar thus decided to confront the Ottomans. They started by burning their own homes and fortified themselves in a nearby castle. Many Turkish soldiers fell those days. After weeks of confrontation, the Armenian militia had no ammunition left. They decided to come out from the castle and fight with their own bare hands. Now, there were only women, children, and elderly in the city, who were all massacred following the resistance's suppression.[2]

Shabin Karahisar`(Şebinkarahisar) was the birthplace of Andranik Toros Ozanian.

  1. ^ Simon Payaslian, "The Armenian Resistance at Shabin-Karahisar in 1915" 5th International conferences on Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces
  2. ^ Translated from the Armenian: Mihran Kurdoghlian, Badmoutioun Hayots, C. hador [Armenian History, volume III], Athens, Greece, 1996, pg. 93.

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