Jevdet Bey or Cevdet Tahir Belbez

Sait Çetinoğlu Ali Sait Çetinoğlu is a Turkish scholar, Professor of the Free University Ankara Independent Initiative, Turkey He was one of the first representatives and coordinators for Turkey at the Amnesty International. His interests include The Young Turks ...

"Bir Osmanlı Komutanının Soykırım Güncesi"
, ''Birikim'', 09.04.2009. (1878 – January 15, 1955) Selcuk Uzun
"1915 „Van İsyanı“ ve Vali Cevdet (Belbez) Bey"
''Küyerel'', 30.12.2011. was an Ottoman Albanian governor of the Van vilayet of the

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during

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and the Siege of Van. He is considered responsible for the massacres of Armenians in and around Van.

Clarence Ussher Clarence Douglas Ussher (September 9, 1870 – September 20, 1955) was an American physician and missionary in the Van region during the Armenian genocide, where he reported that 55,000 Armenians had been killed. In 1917 Ussher published a memoir ...

, a witness to these events, reported that 55,000 Armenians were subsequently killed. He is also considered responsible for massacres of Assyrians in the same region. He was born in Shkodra,

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, as the son of Tahir Pashë Krajani, who was a ''vali'' of Van,

Bitlis Bitlis ( hy, Բաղեշ '; ku, Bidlîs; ota, بتليس) is a city in southeastern Turkey and the capital of Bitlis Province. The city is located at an elevation of 1,545 metres, 15 km from Lake Van, in the steep-sided valley of the Bitlis R ...

, and

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. He also became the brother-in-law of Enver Pasha. In 1914, as the

Kaymakam Kaymakam, also known by many other romanizations, was a title used by various officials of the Ottoman Empire, including acting grand viziers, governors of provincial sanjaks, and administrators of district kazas. The title has been retained a ...

of the Sanjak of Hakkari, Djevdet worked closely together with the Ottoman Secret Service to coordinate the defense against the Russians and possible offensives against the region around

Lake Urmia Lake Urmia; az, اۇرمۇ گؤلۆ, script=Arab, italic=no, Urmu gölü; ku, گۆلائوو رمیەیێ, Gola Ûrmiyeyê; hy, Ուրմիա լիճ, Urmia lich; arc, ܝܡܬܐ ܕܐܘܪܡܝܐ is an endorheic salt lake in Iran. The lake is l ...

. He wrote to Talaat Pasha that

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could have been captured with some more support of his superiors. He succeeded Hasan Tahsin Bey as Governor of the Vilayet of Van in 1914. As such, he ordered a massacre of about 800 Assyrians in

Salmas Salmas ( fa, سلماس; ; ; ; syr, ܣܵܠܵܡܵܣ, Salamas) is the capital of Salmas County, West Azerbaijan Province in Iran. It is located northwest of Lake Urmia, near Turkey. According to the 2019 census, the city's population is 127,86 ...

in March 1915.'''' Djevdet was a leader of the

Committee of Union and Progress The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) ( ota, اتحاد و ترقى جمعيتی, translit=İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti, script=Arab), later the Union and Progress Party ( ota, اتحاد و ترقى فرقه‌سی, translit=İttihad ve Tera ...

(CUP) and the brother-in-law of Enver Pasha.'''' He was portrayed by

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in the 2002 film '' Ararat,'' which received 2 Oscar nominations.

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Armenian genocide perpetrators Ottoman people of World War I Enver Pasha Sayfo perpetrators Albanians from the Ottoman Empire People from Shkodër Political people from the Ottoman Empire 1878 births 1955 deaths {{Armenia-genocide-stub

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