1915-09-09-DE-001

1915-09-09-DE-001

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Source: DE/PA-AA/BoKon/170
Embassy register: A53a/1915/5247
Edition: Genocide 1915/16
Departure of telegram: 09/09/1915 11:00 AM
Arrival of telegram: 09/10/1915 10:00 AM
Embassy/consular serial number: No. 39
Translated by: Vera Draack (Translation sponsored by Zoryan Institute)
Last updated: 03/23/2012

From the Vice-Consul in Mosul (Holstein) to the Embassy Constantinople

Telegraphic Report

No. 39
Mosul, 9 September 1915
According to accounts from Turkish troops marching through on their way from Djezireh to Baghdad, all of the Christians in the town named were supposedly massacred a week ago by Kurds hired by Fetki [Feyzi]Bey, the Deputy of Diyarbekir, with the connivance of the local authorities and the participation of the military. The reports by travellers are identical; the local Chaldean Patriarch confirmed them. The local government gave me an evasive answer.

I respectfully request that this be brought to the Sublime Porte’s notice. [Note by Mordtmann: At some point I will mention this to Talaat Bey, but only to show him that we learn of such things.]

Apart from everything else, we have a purely factual interest in peace and order being kept in those towns which we have selected as our main military posts.

[Holstein]