Cases and Results of Ethnıc Cleansıng Agaınst Akhalkalakı Uyezd`s Turkısh-muslım Populatıon In the Fırst Half of 1918: Goyye and Khospıa Massacres
Uluslararası Türkçe Edebiyat Kültür Eğitim (TEKE) Dergisi, 2019
Collection summary
An article examining the Goyye and Khospia massacres against the Turkish-Muslim population of the Akhalkalaki uyezd in the first half of 1918, based on Georgian and Armenian sources.
This English-language scholarly article, published in the TEKE Journal in 2019, addresses violence against the Turkish-Muslim population of the ethnically mixed Akhalkalaki uyezd in early 1918. Drawing on Georgian and Armenian sources, the author documents what he describes as massacres committed by Armenian (Dashnak) armed groups against the Karapapak village of Goyye (Kokia) in March 1918 and, some three months later, against the village of Khospia. For the collection it offers contextual background on the regional inter-ethnic violence into which the Caucasus Army of Islam intervened in 1918, though it does not treat the army directly.
The source's own abstract
In the early 1918, as in most South Caucasian uyezds (administrative subdivisions), the inter-ethnic relations reached an unbearable level in the Akhalkalaki uyezd, which has different ethnic content. The Armenian villages of this region were armed under the name of self-defense forces and these armed groups carried out the massacres against the local TurkishMuslim population. The first terrible massacre was committed against the innocent and unprotected population of the great Turkish-Karapapak village Goyye (Kokia) at the beginning of March, 1918. The Dashnaks surrounded the village by siege and killed children and women with bayonets and took the survivors hostage. Approximately after three months of the Goyye massacre, Armenian armed groups took over the entire population of Khospia (Hosbiye) village and expelled them to Akhalkalaki uyezd center and brutally slaughtered them after a while. In the article, the facts and results of the massacre against the Turkish-Muslim population in the Akhalkalaki uyezd in the first half of 1918 were included in the scientific circulation and carried out research with reference to Georgian and Armenian sources.
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