Home Map E-mail
 
Eng |  Հայ |  Türk |   Рус  |  Fr  

Home
Main
About AGMI
Mission statement
Director's message
Contacts
Pre-Genocide Armenia
History of Armenia
Pre-Genocide photos
Intellectuals
Armenian Genocide
What is Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Chronology
Photos of Armenian Genocide
100 photographic stories
Mapping Armenian Genocide
Cultural Genocide
Remember
Documents
American
British
German
Russian
French
Austrian
Turkish

Research
Bibliography
Survivors Stories
Eye-Witnesses
Media
Quotations
Public Lectures
Recognition
States
International organizations
Provincial governments
Public petitions
AGMI Events
Delegations
Museum G-Brief
News
Conferences
Links
   Museum
Museum Info
Plan a visit
Permanent exhibition
Temporary exhibition
Online exhibition  
Traveling exhibitions  
Memorial postcards  
   Institute
Goals & Endeavors
Publications
AGMI Journals  
Library
AGMI collection
   Tsitsernakaberd Complex
Description and History
Memory alley
Remembrance day
 

Armenian General Benevolent Union
All Armenian Fund
Armenian News Agency
armin
armin
armin
armin
armin




News

ADANA 1909: 115 YEARS AFTER THE ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST


04.04.2024


The massacres that took place in the Adana and Aleppo provinces in April 1909 were the second stage of the organised massacres and mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. It appeared in the city of Adana and the surrounding areas in all its inhumanity and brutality and happened several months after the Young Turk coup, coinciding with a counter-revolution carried out by supporters of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The Adana massacres clearly showed that, in this sense and despite the change of Turkish regimes and mutual internal disagreements, the policies adopted to solve the Armenian question and dealing with Armenians remained unchanged.

The Adana massacres began on April 1, when a previously prepared and armed Turkish mob rushed into the city's streets, squares, and neighbourhoods and began massacring Armenians. The first wave of massacres lasted for three days. They resumed on April 12, continuing for a further two days. The Turkish army, although it allegedly arrived at that time to “restore order and the rule of law” also participated in the massacres alongside the mob.

About 30,000 Armenians were killed, with dozens of Armenian-inhabited towns and villages, churches and schools being set on fire and destroyed. Since the main method of massacre was arson, contemporaries described what happened in Adana as a holocaust - arson. Many articles were published in the European press crying out against the brutal policy used against the Armenians.

The Young Turks, in order to avoid responsibility and change international public opinion, started a formal investigation, but the organisers and those responsible for the massacres remained unpunished.

The photograph is of a postcard of burnt and destroyed Adana taken in 1909, Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.

Exclusive materials on the Adana massacres kept in AGMI scientific collections are shown below.







The Graphic, 10 July, London, 1909.
An article titled “Christians Burnt like Vermin: The Horrors of Adana” and
a photograph with the caption “At the Adana hospital. Mrs. Dottie Wiley helps a child injured in the massacre”.



The Graphic, 10 July, London, 1909.
Article titled “A Holocaust of Christians”.



Journal des Voyages, 24 octobre, Paris, 1909.
A picture with the caption “Fire and killing in Adana” shows a Turkish mob pouring fuel even on women and children to set them on fire.



The Spectator, 8 May, London, 1909.
The “News of the week” column states that 30,000 people have been killed and 35,000 left homeless, according to reports from Adana.



A postcard depicting burnt and destroyed Adana, 1909.
Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute






FOLLOW US



DONATE

DonateforAGMI
TO KEEP THE MEMORY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ALIVE

Special Projects Implemented by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation

COPYRIGHT

DonateforAGMI

AGMI BOOKSTORE

1915
The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute’s “World of Books”

TESTIMONIAL OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SURVIVORS

Testimonial
THE AGMI COLLECTION OF UNPUBLISHED MEMOIRS

ONLINE EXHIBITION

Temporary exhibition
SELF-DEFENSE IN CILICIA DURING THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

DEDICATED TO THE CENTENNIAL OF THE SELF-DEFENSE BATTLES OF MARASH, HADJIN, AINTAB

LEMKIN SCHOLARSHIP

Lemkin
AGMI ANNOUNCES 2022
LEMKIN SCHOLARSHIP FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS

TRANSFER YOUR MEMORY

100photo
Share your family story, Transfer your memory to generations.
On the eve of April 24, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute undertakes an initiative “transfer your memory”.
“AGMI” foundation
8/8 Tsitsernakaberd highway
0028, Yerevan, RA
Tel.: (+374 10) 39 09 81
    2007-2021 © The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute     E-mail: info@genocide-museum.am