Cherkes Ahmet

Cherkes Ahmet
Born Serres, Macedonia
Died September 6, 1915
Damascus, Syria
Criminal penalty Execution
Conviction(s) Murder

Cherkes Ahmet (died September 6, 1915) 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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