Armenian Genocide Timeline: 1917
1/4/1917
Mr. Goppert of the German Embassy, visits Enver, Talaat and Foreign Minister Halil to convey that forcible Islamization had no connection with military necessity or the security of the state and must be stopped immediately.
2/4/1917
Talaat becomes the Grand Vizier of Turkey.
2/14/1917
Halide Hanum, the Turkish female author, and head of an orphanage established in Syria, receives 70 Armenian orphans in her orphanage in order to Turkify them.
2/15/1917
Another group of 70 Armenian orphans are sent to an orphanage in Lebanon to be Turkified.
3/5/1917
The government distributes by rail to various villages and towns 400 Armenian orphans from Aleppo.
3/5/1917
350 Armenian orphans from an Armenian orphanage in Syria are given to surviving relatives, no matter how distantly related, in order to keep them from falling into the hands of the Turks.
3/11/1917
Allied forces occupy Baghdad.
3/15/1917
20,000 Armenians in the city of Aleppo are reported in extreme distress.
3/15/1917
The Turkish government declines American offers of aid to the Armenian survivors.
3/20/1917
In Aleppo District, 45,000 Armenian deportees are reported living in dire conditions. Of these, 10,000 were women, while the rest were mainly orphaned children.
3/23/1917
The governor-general of Damascus, Huseyin Kiazim, reports that there are 60,000 Armenian deportees in Damascus District, of which only 10% were capable of doing any kind of work.
3/23/1917
10,000 Armenian deportees are reported in the city of Damascus, and 30,000 Armenian deportees are reported in Homs and Hama.
3/26/1917
Ernst E. Cristoffel, a German missionary in Malatia, who witnessed the massacres and deportations, estimates that 1,000,000 Armenians had been murdered.
4/1/1917
12,000 Armenian deportees are murdered in Buseira, near Der-el-Zor (Deir el-Zor).
4/14/1917
The Turkish government orders all surviving Armenians in Urfa District to be Turkified.
4/20/1917
Turkey breaks relations with the United States.
6/1/1917
The Turkish government orders the Turkification and Islamization of the surviving Armenian Catholics.
9/1/1917
The appointment of the new German ambassador in Constantinople, Johann Heinrich Count on Bernstorff (former ambassador to Washington). Bernstorff served until October 27, 1918.
11/5/1917
The Interior Ministry orders the deportation of all Armenian employees on the railroads.
11/27/1917
President Woodrow Wilson urges former ambassador Henry Morgenthau to write a book based on his experiences.
12/9/1917
Allied forces occupy Jerusalem.
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