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Several other Turkish people were killed in the streets that day.
Several Armenians, forming an execution squad, shot more than 10
unarmed civilian Muslims at the railroad station on February 12. This
gang threatened to kill the officers who tried to save those Muslims.
Meanwhile, I ordered the arresting of an Armenian who had murdered
a Turkish person for no reason at all. The General Commander of the
Caucasus Army had already given his permission for the founding of a
Court Martial in Erzurum in line with the previous stipulations prevailing
before the Revolution, with an authority give death penalty.
When one of the Armenian officers told this arrested Armenian that he
was going to be hanged he started to shout, “Where on earth have
you seen an Armenian hanged for killing a Turk?” offended.
Armenians started to set the all the Turkish markets in Erzurum afire. I
learned that all the Muslim villagers of Tepeköy4 – where Combatant
Artillery Regiment was situated – were massacred, regardless of their
age and gender by unidentified members of a gang on February 17.
I informed Antranik5 who came to Erzurum the same day. He ordered
the finding of the murderers. I do not know what came out of it.
4 A village affiliated to Erzurum.
5 Antranik Ozanyan, was born in 1865, Şebinkarahisar. He took part in the
insurgence of 1885 incited in Şebinkarahisar. He later went to Istanbul and
established contact with the Daschnaks, he fled to Batumi after killing a Turkish chief
of police. On May 16, 1895 he went to Sasun together with his 40 men, armed, and
joined Armenian Serop’s gang, and replaced him on his death. He massacred
numerous Muslims in Sasun and its environs in two years. He even attacked the
Armenian villages and tortured the Armenians by various means. He received arms
and ammunition support from the Russians. He went to Bulgaria in 1906, and he
massacred Muslims in Edirne, Keşan, Malkara, and in Tekirdağ together with his gang
during the Balkan War. When the Armenian voluntary regiments in the Caucasus
joined the First World War as the forward forces of the Russian army, the Armenians
in Selmas and its environs joined the Russian forces under his leadership. Antranik,
took over the office of Provost Marshall from Colonel Morel when he came to
Erzurum on March 2, 1918, dressed in Russian general’s uniform. After having
realized great damage and massacres he fled to Caucasus. He organized the
Armenians in Karabagh, Zengezur and its environs against the Turks. After the signing
of the Moúdhros Armistice, he dissolved his gang and went to Paris on May 15, 1919.
He sought support in London, Paris, and New York for the establishment of a greater
Armenia on the Turkish soil. By putting the blame of the massacres he committed on
the Turks, he propagandized that the Turks killed the Armenians. Antranik died in the
United States in 1927. He was indulged in farming until his death. As his corpse was
not welcomed to Erivan in the USSR, he was buried to Paris.
Haluk SELVI; “Anadolu’dan Kafkasya’ya Bir Ermeni Çete Reisi: Antranik Ozanyan”
[From Anatolia to the Caucasus, An Armenian Gang Leader: Antranik Ozanyan] in
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