Tehcir Law

The deportation law or Tehcir Act ( Turkish Tehcir Kanunu, officially sevk ve Iskan Kanunu ) was on May 27, 1915 passed by the Parliament of the Ottoman Empire provisional law that authorized the deportation of the Armenian population. The resettlement campaign resulted in the death 600000-1800000 civilians and is commonly referred to as the Armenian genocide. The law took effect officially on 1 June 1915 in force and applied to 8 February 1916.

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The Deportation Act, which is commonly known as Tehcir - law, was as a provisional law entitled " Law concerning the measures of the military in adversaries against the government violence in times of war " by the Ottoman Parliament, the precursor of today's Turkish Grand National Assembly, adopted. It was adopted on 27 May 1915, the majority of members of the Committee of Union and Progress, and took effect on June 1 of the same year with the publication in the State newspaper Takvim -i Vekayi into force.

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  • Armenian Genocide
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  • Law (Ottoman Empire)
  • 1915
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