The courtroom at the court-martial of Mehmed Kemal Bey for his role in the Armenian genocide. Under pressure by the Entente, the Ottoman Special Military Tribunal tried him for his complicity in the mass killings of tens of thousands of Armenians (Allied-occupied Istanbul, April 1919) [513 x 881].
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[Mehmed Kemal Bey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmed_Kemal_Bey) was implicated in several crimes, including the “deportation” of 40,000 Armenians from BoÄŸazlıyan, the establishment “killing sites” in the Yozgat region, and further “deportations” in Konya. The prosecution’s evidence consisted of official documents and eyewitness testimony. For example, Turkish deputy Shakir Bey testified that Mehmed Kemal had personally participated in the massacres and acted “with the manners of butchers.” He said Mehmed Kemal had bragged about being promoted to the position of governor of Yozgat as a reward for his participation in the massacres.
>He reported the following statements allegedly made by Mehmed Kemal in his presence: “I massacred the Armenians in BoÄŸazlıyan, and I became an interim canton governor. I am killing them here as well. I will be appointed as the governor of a provincial district, or perhaps even a province.”
After Shakir Bey’s testimony, Djemal Bey, the former governor of Yozgat, stated that there had never been intense rebel activity by Armenians in that region, dismantling was the last argument used by the defense for Mehmed Kemal. What sealed his fate was a telegram from Talaat Pasha, on August 9, 1915, stating that Mehmed Kemal had participated in the massacres and had already exterminated over 3,160 Armenians by then.
On April 8, 1919, the tribunal found Mehmed Kemal Bey guilty of premeditated mass murder in conjunction with rape and armed robbery.
>”There can be no doubt or hesitation that the deportations were a cloak for massacres.”
Mehmed Kemal was sentenced to death by hanging. A lesser involved codefendant, Mehmed Tevfik, was sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor as an accomplice. Tevfik was pardoned in 1923 by the new Turkish government. Another codefendant, Abdul Fayaz, escaped from prison and later became a Turkish deputy. However, their colleague would be far less fortunate.
Mehmed Kemal, 35, was executed by hanging in Bayazid Square in Istanbul on April 10, 1919. His execution took place in front of a gathering of Young Turks who demanded his release. According to a report by the French Maritime Intelligence Agency, his last words were, “Long live the Muslims and Turkey. Death to the Armenians, perpetual enemies of the empire.”
The trials by the short-lived [Ottoman Special Military Tribunal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_trials_of_1919%E2%80%931920) are the subject of the book *Judgment At Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials*.
They’re currently trying to cover this up online
I wonder why armenians never took their genocide case to the Hague Criminal Court. Billions spent to persuade people across the world into believing this agenda but not a single evidence provided to the court. The answer is simple – this shit is made up. Yes, they were punished by expulsion by ottomans for betraying the country and siding with russians/brits. Any nation would do that to the traitors. But the whole genocide narrative is simply made up decades after by soviets to retaliate turks going to the nato.