Defense of Van (1915)

Bergmann Offensive - Sarıkamış - Ardahan - Van - Malazgirt - Karakilise - Erzurum - Trabzon - Bitlis - Mus - German Caucasus Expedition - Sardarapat - Abaran - Karakilisa - Baku

The uprising of Van (Armenian Վանի Հերոսամարտ Wani Herosamart, Turkish Van Direnişi ) was the attempt of Ottoman Armenians to defend themselves against the massacres of the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians in the Vilayet of Van. Van was at that time one of the six Armenian vilayets. Several contemporary reports and historians explain the Ottoman government had deliberately instigated the Armenian resistance and made ​​the uprising as a pretext for the deportation of the Armenians throughout the Ottoman Empire. The decision for the deportation and extermination of the Armenians had been killed before the uprising.

Rafael de Nogales underpins the reports of other witnesses, the Armenian position at Van was defensive oriented and a resistance action against the massacre. The majority in the city of Van taking place uprising was a rare case in which the Armenians fought against the forces of the Ottoman Empire.

The fighting lasted from 19 April to 17 May 1915 until the Ottoman army withdrew, when the army of the Russian Empire approached. Your were connected to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( Dashnak ), the Social Democratic Party Hunchak ( Hunchak ) and the Democratic- Liberal Party ( Armenakan ).

The revolt led the Armenian Aram Manukyan; the Ottoman 3rd Army commanded Dschevdet Bey, Governor of the province of Van, Halil Bey, the commander of the gendarmerie, Koprulu Kâzım Bey, Lieutenant Colonel and the Venezuelan adventurer Rafael de Nogales. The strength of the Armenian Fedayeen was 1300 men, while the clout of the 3rd Army was over 5000 soldiers. A total of 55,000 civilians were killed, most of them Armenians.

In the wake of the attempted resistance of the Armenians in the Caucasus front the Tehcir - law was passed by the Ottoman Parliament, in the course of which first the Armenians in Constantinople Opel and later all Armenians to be deported throughout the empire.

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