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At the end of the investigations it was found out that the Armenian
Infantry Reserve Officer Karagadayev, who was appointed to the
orders of the Artillery Regiment, was the instigator of the events.
According to the testimonies of the released Turks, Karagadayev, was
the ringleader of the pillaging, and some of the properties found were
seized by the soldiers. Karagadayev was arrested along with the
others, and kept in prison until his trial.
Late in the afternoon everything about the events was told to the
Supreme Commander at the presence of the regional inspector Glotov
and his aid Stavrovskiy. Armenians have killed several people here and
there, and set the Turkish bazaar aflame on the same day.
In those days we used to hear about the massacring of the unarmed
civilian Turks by the Armenians in and around Erzurum one by one. I
had an Armenian arrested who had massacred a Turkish person near
Tafta9 fortifications, and turned him over to the Provost Marshall
personally.
Turkish people were talking about the Turks who were taken away to
work elsewhere, most of whom did not come back. The public
administration informed the General Headquarters about these
complaints.
A day after my rescuing the Turkish people who were taken under
arrest forcibly, we, the high ranking artillery officers Artillery
Commander, I, Director of the Artillery Command Mobilization
Department submitted a report to General Odichelitzé requesting
permission for all the artillery personnel at the Erzurum Fortified
Region to leave Erzurum. We were of no use as a combatant unit. We
were not needed. We were unable to do anything to stop the
Armenian massacres. We never did want the atrocities committed by
the Armenians veiled by our names.
Commander-in-Chief explained us that he had received a telegram
message from the Commander of the Ottoman Army, Vehip Pasha10, where he declared that he had ordered his troops to deliver Erzincan
from occupation, and to continue their forward movement, in line
with the stipulations of the Law of War, until the establishing of an
immediate contact with the Russian forces; and that he informed him
about the atrocities committed by the Armenians on Turks living in
the region.
9 A village, today Gökçeyamaç, affiliated to the Dumlu subdistrict of Erzurum.
10 Vehip (Kaçi) was born in 1877, Khaniá, Crete. He was graduated from the Military
Academy in 1987 and from the Staff Officers College in 1900. He was first appointed
to Yemen, from where he was sent to the orders of Diyarbakır Division. In 1907 he
was appointed to the 4th Army Headquarters in Erzincan. In 1909, he was first
appointed to the Ministry of Defense, then to the War Academy and to the Kuleli
Military High School as the Commander of the Military Schools. He took part in the
Balkan War as Khaniá Fortified Region Commander; at the Hijaz Front as the
Commander of the 22nd Hijaz Division. He was appointed as the Governor and
Governor of Hijaz. He served at the Çanakkale Front as Southern Group Commander.
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