Notes

• [1]
  Teghekagir Hoghayin Grawmants Handznazhoghovoy [The Report of the Commission on Seizured Lands], vol. I, Istanbul, Doğramacıyan Publishing, 1910.
• [2]
  For detailed analysis on the relations between the CUP and the Armenian Political Organizations: Arsen Avagyan and Gaidz F. Minassian, Ermeniler ve İttihat Terakki: İşbirliğinden Çatışmaya, İstanbul: Aras Yayınları, 2005; Dikran Kaligian, Armenian Organization and Ideology under Ottoman Rule 1908-1914, London, Transaction Publishers, 2009.
• [3]
  For detailed analysis on the reform roject, see: Roderic H. Davison, “The Armenian Crisis, 1912-1914”, The American Historical Review, vol. LIII, n° 3, 1948.
• [4]
  BOA.DH.KMS 2-2/5, 13 Kanun-ı Sani 1329/26 January 1914, the Governor of Diyarbekir to the Ministry of Interior, in Zekeriya Türkmen, Vilayât-ı Şarkiye (Doğu Anadolu Vilayetleri) Islahat Müfettişliği 1913-1914, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2006, p. 143-145.
• [5]
  The first decision regarding the Armenian properties was adopted by the Cabinet on May 30^th, 1915. Although this decision was about the deportation process of the Armenian population, it included some details about the management of the properties of those who would be deported (BOA, Meclis‐ i Vükela Mazbatası, 198/163). As this decision was short to fulfill local officials, the Ottoman Government sent a detailed order (talimname) on June 10^th, 1915 (Prime Minister Directorate General of Press and Information, Documents, Ankara, 1982, p. 74‐ 80). The government adopted the temporary law called “The Law about the Abandoned Properties, Debts and Credits of the Population who were Sent elsewhere” on September 26^th, 1915 (Takvim-i Vakayi [Official Gazette], n° 2303, 14 Eylül 1331/27 September 1915).
• [6]
  Takvim-i Vakayi, n° 2303, 14 Eylül 1331/27 September 1915. N° surprise that these notebooks were destroyed, because if they remained, they would bring an extremely powerful light to the scale of this organized crime, the wealth of the Armenian people, the identities of the beneficiaries which profited from the processes of property transfer.
• [7]
  Murat Bardakçı (ed.), Talât Paşa’nın Evrak-ı Metrûkesi [Abandoned Documents of Talat Pasha], Istanbul: Everest, 2008.
• [8]
  BOA, DH.ŞFR 68/155, Interior Ministry to all provinces, 3 October 1916.
• [9]
  BOA, DH.ŞFR 59/239, Interior Ministry to all provinces, 6 January 1916.
• [10]
  The number of buildings which were reported to be suitable for conversion into prison by local authorities varied between two and eleven. BOA, DH.MB.HPS 25/15 and 49/31, various provinces to Interior Ministry, 14-27 May 1916.
• [11]
  After the re-opening of the parliament, parlamentarian Dikran Barsamian presented the government a declaration for the enormous damage done to the Armenian religious infrastructure (Meclis-i Mebusan Zabıt Ceridesi, Ankara: TBMM Matbaası, 1992, period 3, vol. I, assembly year 5, meeting 23, 9 December 1918, p. 257-58.)
• [12]
  BOA, DH.ŞFR 55/66, Interior Ministry to Karesi, 17 August 1915.
• [13]
  Bardakçı, ibid., p. 95.
• [14]
  Bülent Bakar, Ermeni Tehciri ve Uygulaması, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Marmara University, Department of Turkish Studies, 2003, p. 103ff.
• [15]
  BOA, DH.ŞFR 52/292, Interior Ministry to Konya, 9 May 1915.
• [16]
  BOA, DH.ŞFR 57/54, Talat to Şükrü Kaya, 18 October 1915.
• [17]
  BOA, DH.ŞFR 57/350, Interior Ministry to Eskişehir, 8 November 1915.
• [18]
  BOA, DH.ŞFR 57/342, Interior Ministry to Aleppo, 8 November 1915.
• [19]
  Taner Akçam, Ermeni Meselesi Hallolunmuştur, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2008, p. 230.
• [20]
  PAAA, R14088, Adana consul Büge to Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg, 1 October 1915. For the original document, see: http://www.armenocide.de/armenocide/armgende.nsf/WebStart-En?Open Frameset
• [21]
  NA, RG59/867.4016/137, Konya consul William S. Dodd to ambassador Henry Morgenthau, 15 August 1915.
• [22]
  NA, RG59/867.4016/251, Wilfred Post to W. Peet, 25 November 1915.
• [23]
  Elise Hagopian Taft, Rebirth: Veradznound, Plandome, NY: New Age, 1981, p. 37.