1905 YILINDA TİFLİS’TE TÜRK-MÜSLÜMAN NÜFUSA KARŞI KATLİAM

Abstract

The Armenian-Turkish conflict that started in 1905 in Baku, Revan (Yerevan), and Elisabethpol (Ganja) provinces of the South Caucasus also deteriorate the situation in Tiflis province. Since the fall of the same year, members of Armenian chauvinist-terrorist organizations and forces that were at one with them commit provocative crimes against Turks in Tiflis and its surrounding areas. The Turks were being offended, opressed and even killed without any reason. Despite all the Turkish intelligentsia's efforts, it was impossible to avoid the bloody events on 22-30 November, in Tiflis. Turkish population of the city targeted the Armenian armed force's bullets and were exposed to a massacre. Based on the early written sources, this article investigates the skirmishes between Armenians and Turks in November of 1905. The facts of savagery and massacres committed against Turks were revealed based on the official documents of the Central Historical Archive of Georgia and Georgian and Russian press of 1905-1906.

Keywords
Turkish-Muslim massacres, “Dashnaktsutyun”, Tiflis, Armenian terror.
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