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
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...
Documents include the following: a copy of a telegram from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Rafʻat al-Vizarah, the officer in Savujbulagh, about the entry of a French woman into Iran through the border at Savujbulagh, providing her security, and accompanying her to her destination; a report frim the office in Savujbulagh about the entry of Madame into Savujbulagh and her departure to Urumiyah, Tabriz, and Tehran; Muqarrab al-Saltanah writes, in reply to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that the French woman arrived on September 9, [1907] and departed for Urumiyah afterwards.
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.
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...
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