| 1914-01-15-DE-001
From German Foreign Office (Jagow) to German Embassy Constantinople [en de]
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There was news in St. Petersburg from Erzerum that there was open talk of massacres in meetings held there, which were to begin at a sign from Constantinople. At the order of the Mullahs, the population put on white turbans. The Ittihad were collecting signatures against any kind of control whatsoever and wanted to make the Great Powers responsible for the massacres.
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| 1914-02-16-DE-001
From German Consulate Erzurum (Anders) to German Embassy Constantinople (Mutius) [de]
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Anders reports to the chargé d'affaires on a conversation with the Erzerum Armenian Bishop Seadetian concerning the reforms. The bishop urged that a public opinion poll should also include those Armenians who had emigrated, but who wished to return. The situation in Erzerum had eased.
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| 1914-02-22-DE-001
From Paul Rohrbach to German Foreign Office (Zimmermann) [de]
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| 1914-06-17-DE-001
From "Berliner Börsen Courier" [de]
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| 1914-06-19-DK-001
From Legation Constantinople (Carl Ellis Wandel) to Foreign Ministry Copenhagen (Erik Scavenius) [da de en]
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Wandel discusses the possibilities of an outbreak of war between Greece and the Ottoman Empire if the persecution of Ottoman Greeks continues.
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| 1914-06-19-DK-002
From Consulate Smyrna (Alfred van der Zee) to Legation Constantinople (Carl Ellis Wandel) [da de en]
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Danish consul at Smyrna, Alfred van der Zee, reports for the first time on the organized boycott and persecution of Greeks in the Aegean (Ionian) regions of the Ottoman Empire.
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| 1914-06-23-DK-001
From Legation Constantinople (Carl Ellis Wandel) to Foreign Ministry Copenhagen (Erik Scavenius) [da de en]
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Based mainly on reports from the Danish consul at Smyrna, Alfred van der Zee, Wandel describes the execution of, and some of the rationale behind, the continuing CUP persecutions of the Ottoman Greeks living in the Aegean/Ionian region.
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| 1914-06-25-DK-001
From Consulate Smyrna (Alfred van der Zee) to Legation Constantinople (Carl Ellis Wandel) [da de en]
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Danish consul at Smyrna, Alfred van der Zee, reports on the continuing organized boycott, persecution, and massacre of Greeks in the Aegean (Ionian) regions of the Ottoman Empire.
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| 1914-06-27-DK-001
From Legation Constantinople (Carl Ellis Wandel) to Foreign Ministry Copenhagen (Erik Scavenius) [da de en]
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Carl Ellis Wandel basically sums up Alfred van der Zee's June 25 report, 1914-06-25-DK-001, on the persecution of Ottoman Greeks, while adding pieces of information regarding this issue seen from Constantinople.
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| 1914-07-10-DE-001
From German Embassy Constantinople (Murius) to German Reichskanzler (Bethmann Hollweg) [de]
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According to the chargé d’affaires Mutius, Consul Anders was able to ascertain on his journey from Kharput to Bitlis that, generally speaking, the situation was peaceful. The Armenian leaders, however, considered this to be merely the calm before the storm. The Kurds would not accept the reforms, because they jeopardized their privileges.
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| 1914-07-24-DE-001
From German Embassy Constantinople (Wangenheim) to German Reichskanzler (Bethmann Hollweg) [de]
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Consul Anders reported on a journey to Van and on postal communications in far eastern Turkey.
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| 1914-07-24-DK-001
From Legation Constantinople (Carl Ellis Wandel) to Foreign Ministry Copenhagen (Erik Scavenius) [da de en]
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Carl Ellis Wandel reports in detail on the Committee of Union and Progress, Muslim-Christian relations, and how rigged elections, electoral fraud, demographic engineering, centralization, and other measures are being employed by the CUP against Armenians and other non-Turkish groups to ensure a continuing Turkish-Muslim dominance in the Ottoman Empire.
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| 1914-07-25-DE-001
From German Consulate Erzurum (Anders) to German Embassy Constantinople (Wangenheim) [de]
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Report on a conversation with the Mutessarif of Hakkari and the brother-in-law of Envers, Djevdet Bey, and his views on the situation in western Persia and eastern Turkey, on Russia's intentions in Persia and Turkey, as well as the Kurds' behavior.
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| 1914-07-30-DE-001
From German Consulate Trebizond (Bergfeld) to German Reichskanzler (Bethmann Hollweg) [de]
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In contrast to earlier times in which the Kurds secured the Armenians' lives and property, they had threatened the Armenians during their more recent rebellions with death, should they not give shelter to fugitive Kurds. Presumably, the Russians were behind these events.
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| 1914-08-11-DE-001
From German Embassy Constantinople (Wangenheim) to German Reichskanzler (Bethmann Hollweg) [de]
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Consul Anders introduces those Armenians who are to assist Hoff, the appointed inspector general, in Van as advisors.
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| 1914-10-16-DE-001
From German Consulate Aleppo (Roessler) to German Reichskanzler (Bethmann Hollweg) [de en tr]
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According to eyewitness reports, the leader of the Zeitun rebels, Nasar Tshaush, was "martyred to death in the cruelest way". Roessler said that the citizens of Zeitun attributed it to German officers that the implementation of the draft was carried out. In order to counter the general antipathy to Germans also found among the Armenian population of Marash, he requested "pamphlets on the war and informative articles written in Turkish".
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| 1914-11-18-DE-001
From German Consulate Trebizond (Bergfeld) to German Reichskanzler (Bethmann Hollweg) [de]
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Trapezunt was bombarded by the Russian fleet. The German consul reports on the reactions of the Moslem, Greek and Armenian populations.
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| 1914-12-05-DE-001
From German Consulate Erzurum (Schwarz) to German Embassy Constantinople [de]
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| 1914-12-14-DE-001
From German Consulate Adana (Buege) to German Embassy Constantinople (Wangenheim) [de]
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| 1914-12-24-DE-001
From German-Armenian Society (Johannes Lepsius) to German Foreign Office [en de]
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Lepsius asks the German Foreign Office to send a letter from Liparit to the Armenian Patriarch in Constantinople by courier.
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| 1914-12-25-DE-001
From German Embassy Constantinople (Mordtmann) [de]
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| 1914-12-26-DE-001
From German Foreign Office (Zimmermann) to German Embassy Constantinople (Wangenheim) [de]
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| 1914-12-29-DE-001
From German Embassy Constantinople (Wangenheim) to German Reichskanzler (Bethmann Hollweg) [de en tr]
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The ambassador reported that he let the Armenian Patriarch be assured that he would give his support for the resumption of the work on reforms after the war was over. The Patriarch deplored the situation of the Armenians, especially in the region of Erzerum, and assured him that "every reasonable Armenian hoped that Armenians would remain under Turkish rule", while at the same time justifying why the Armenians had a preference for the countries of the Entente. But he also acknowledged the contributions of the Germans. According to Wangenheim's analysis it was hardly possible for the Patriarch to assert influence in favor of Germany, because he was a member of the Ramgawar Party which did not have any of their own journal.
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| 1914-12-29-DK-001
From Legation Konstantinopel (Carl Ellis Wandel) to Foreign Ministry Copenhagen (Erik Scavenius) [da de en]
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Background information on the radical daily paper ´Touran´ (´Turan´), a mouthpiece for Talaat Bey.
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| 1914-12-30-DE-001
From German Embassy Constantinople (Wangenheim) to German Reichskanzler (Bethmann Hollweg) [de en tr]
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Consul Schwarz's enclosed report on the events in the area around Erzerum confirmed the patriarchy's assessment of the situation. The ambassador reported that he brought up the subject of the state of affairs at the Sublime Porte.
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