Cherkes Ahmet

Cherkes Ahmet
Born Serres, Macedonia
Died September 1915
Damascus, Syria
Criminal penalty Execution
Conviction(s) Murder

Cherkes Ahmet was the leader of Ottoman Turkey's state-sponsored paramilitary marauders of supposedly Circassian origin during World War I. Cherkes Ahmet was from Serres, Macedonia.[1] He was notoriously responsible for the murder of the well-known Armenian writer, literary critic and politician Krikor Zohrab and politician Vartkes Serengülian during the Armenian Genocide.[1][2] Ahmet, along with fellow murderers Halil and Nazim, were tried and executed in Damascus by Djemal Pasha in September 1915. The assassinations became the subject of a 1916 investigation by the Ottoman Parliament led by Artin Boshgezenian, the deputy for Aleppo.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Dadrian, Vahakn (1991). Documentation of the Armenian Genocide in Turkish Sources. Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide.
  2. ↑ Hovannisian, ed. by Richard H. (2006). Armenian Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa. Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publ. p. 486. ISBN 1568591535.
  3. ↑ Raymond H. Kévorkian (ed.) (1995). Revue d'histoire arménienne contemporaine. Paris: Tome 1. p. 254.
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