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Petition against Hamidah Khanum, 1920
The Ottoman Empire's office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs writes to the government of Kurdistan about the petition of Iʻtizad Divan, the officer of Kurdistan, against Hamidah Khanum. The complaint regards ownership rights to his property and he requests that the issue be addressed.
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Telegram from Sayyid al-Husayni to ‘Abd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma, 1904
Includes the writer's concern about the properties and belongings of the late Hajiyah Shahzadah Khanum and the late Haji Fazl ‘Ali Khan being sized by the Ottomans with the excuse that there is no inheritor for them
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Letter of greetings and news of war
Letter about family related news and news of the progression of the war [World War I], talking about fasting in the month of Ramazan, the writer's letter to the addressee sent with Aqa Sadr, for which s/he had not received any response. S/he talks about the news of the German and Ottoman forces progressing into Iran and taking control of Kirmanshah and Hamadan and moving toward Tehran and how this news has raised the price of goods in the city; the highway robbers from Fars; the British moving towards Isfahan, and finally the hot weather in the city. The writer ends the letter with sending...
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Daughters of Vakil al-Sifarah's complaint, 1919-1920
Documents relating the follow-up to the daughters of Vakil al-Sifarat's complaint about not receiving their share of inheritance, including: Farah al-Saltanah's call for justice to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She writes that after her father's death, his financial documents were kept in two boxes sealed at the embassies of Britain and the Ottoman Empire, but they are now in the posession of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and she wants the boxes opened. In another document, Sayf Allah Khan, the son of Amir Muqtadir Kirmanshahi, lodges a complaint against his wife, Farah al-Saltanah,...
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Letter about daughters of ‘Abd al-Rahim Vakil, 1903
A letter from the British Embassy was sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, signed by Sakinah and Fatimah, daughters of the late Haji ‘Abd al-Rahim Vakil; they are giving up their Ottoman nationalities along with their father. The author tells the addressee that from this letter, it is not clear what the request of the late Haji ‘Abd al-Rahim Vakil's daughters is; do they want to be Iranian citizens or British citizens? The author asks the addressee to investigate which wife of Haji ‘Abd al-Rahim is the mother of these girls and which nationality they intend to be. Once their purpose is...
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Regarding the arrest of Shaykh ‘Abid Allah's sons, 1881
Includes a telegram by I‘timad al-Saltanah from Urumiyah to Amir Nizam, noting that a guard has been assigned to the residence of Shaykh ‘Abid Allah Nihri's wife in order to find their hiding sons, Qadir and Sadiq; and a response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs commanding negotiation with the Ottomans in order to punish the Shakkak clan and arrest Shaykh Qadir and Sadiq Aqa as their hiding place in the Ottoman territories has been identified. The writer speculates that Hamzah Aqa should be in the territories along with his family and clan, and considering that there are around one...
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Nasr Allah Mushir al-Dawlah to ʻAbd al-Husayn Mirza Farmanfarma
Regarding the division of Haj ʻAbd al-Rahim's inheritance, taking into account all of his belongings, including those sold to Umm al-Khaqan
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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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Correspondence regarding the murder of Hakim Haq Nazar, 1899
Including 1- a petition by Rahil to Mushir al-Dawlah, regarding the murder of her husband, Haq Nazar, a Jewish doctor in Kurdistan. She claims the murderers were hired by Ishaq, another Jewish doctor; 2- a telegraph from Muhammad Yusuf from Kurdistan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran, regarding the murder of Haq Nazar by Fattah, son of ‘Abd al-Rahman, Ma‘ruf, and another person -- all Ottoman nationals. The murderers are in jail but ‘Abd al-Rahman is conducting a sit-in at Hajar Khatun Imamzadah and the house of Shaykh Shukr Allah. The writer requests accountability from the...
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