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Hasan Mazhar or Hasan Mazhar Bey was a Governor of
Hasan Mazhar or Hasan Mazhar Bey was a Governor of Ankara
Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...
in the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
, who refused to participate in the genocide of Armenians
Armenians ( hy, հայեր, '' hayer'' ) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian highlands of Western Asia. Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and the ''de facto'' independent Artsakh. There is a wide-ranging diasp ...
in 1915-1917 for which he was dismissed. In 1918, he led the investigating the crimes of the Armenian genocide
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through t ...
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On November 23, 1918, Sultan Mehmed VI established a government commission of inquiry, Hasan Mazhar Bey was appointed chairman. The commission began to investigate the crimes of Ottoman officials, committed primarily against the representatives of the Armenian population. Mazhar Bey demanded from provincial governors to provide all telegrams with orders for the deportation and killing of Armenians. Despite instructions to destroy the originals of the orders after reading, some officials retained telegrams and the commission was able to obtain them.
The formation of a military tribunal investigating the crimes of the Young Turks was a continuation of the work of the Mazhar Commission, and on December 16, 1918, the sultan formally established such tribunals. Three military tribunals and ten judicial bodies were created in the provinces.
On April 27, 2015, a stone was erected in Warsaw's Righteous Garden to commemorate his person and plant a tree of remembrance.Sprawiedliwi 2015 - Hasan Mazhar (pol.). dzieje.pl. ostęp 2015-04-29
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