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On the nomads' attacks, 1910
From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to its office in Urumiyah regarding the assault by nomads on the village of Qaraguz, which is owned by the inheritors of Taqi Bayg
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Murder in response to assault, 1910
Letter from Ahmad Mujallal al-Mulk, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ representative in Urumiyah about Benjamin, a Christian employee of the French missionaries who killed Petrus, a Christian Ottoman national, after he assaulted Benjamin’s daughter, Benjamin’s consequent arrest and imprisonment by the Ottoman Shahbandar, and Shahbandar’s dismissing the request for holding a trial. After Benjamin's temporary release following his illness and his complaint against his prolonged imprisonment in the absence of any trials, the writer repeated his request for a trial, only to be refused again by...
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Regarding displacement of Targavir village people, 1907
A telegram from Imamquli in Urumiyah to Atabak A‘zam in Tehran regarding the pillage of Mavanah and Targavir villages by the Ottoman nomads, and the killing of eighteen men and sixty-six women and children. Around three thousand people, mostly Christians, from the neighboring villages, have fled to Urumiyah and are in need of food and clothing; the writer has been collecting aid from the elite and merchants of Urumiyah and is asking for the government's assistance, suggesting that any aid should be delivered via the Christian clergy who will distribute it among their people.
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Regarding complaints by the Christians of Azarbayjan, 1910
Correspondence among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, their office in Urumiyah, a representative of the Christian population in Azarbayjan, and the Ottoman Embassy, regarding the complaints by the Christians against the nomadic Kurds who plunder their villages and abduct Christian girls, as well as the complaint by the French and American embassies in support of the Christians.
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Abduction of Christian girls by Kurds, 1910
Includes correspondence among the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its office in Urumiyah, the Ministry of Interior, the Iranian Embassy, and the Ottoman Embassy, regarding the abduction of three Christian girls by Kurds in the villages in the vicinity of Urumiyah. First, regarding Katrin, who was abducted by Qasim and his group, and was taken to Haydarlu village, includes the account of freeing the girl and her testimony on being taken by force; and the consequent revenge of the Kurds against the people of Haydarlu who helped in the girl's rescue and injuring Khalil Bayg and killing his...