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Hasanchelebi: A Killing Station for Armenian Men on the Sebastia Deportation Routes

Sukiasyan, Robert · 2024

Sukiasyan reconstructs Hasanchelebi as a principal killing station on the Sebastia (Sivas) deportation routes, where deported Armenian men from Sebastia and surrounding regions were systematically exterminated. Drawing on Armenian survivor testimonies corroborated by Ottoman documents, he traces the phases of atrocity — from the plunder and abuse of women to the mass arrest and execution of men — and argues for the distinctive evidentiary value of Armenian-language sources in documenting the machinery of the genocide.

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Published in
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2024) (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0058
Year
2024
Language
English
DOI
10.51442/ijags.0058

Citation

Sukiasyan, Robert 2024. Hasanchelebi: A Killing Station for Armenian Men on the Sebastia Deportation Routes. International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2024) (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0058. https://doi.org/10.51442/ijags.0058

What this offers a reader

For students

A close case study of how one site on the deportation routes functioned as an organized place of killing.

For academics

Micro-level reconstruction of a killing station, foregrounding Armenian survivor testimony cross-checked with Ottoman records.

For the community

Names Hasanchelebi and what was done to the men of Sebastia there — remembered from survivors' own words.

For a general reader

How one stop on the 1915 deportation routes became a site of mass killing.

Topics

Armenian GenocideSebastia (Sivas)deportation routeskilling sitessurvivor testimony

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