Armenian Genocide Timeline: 1920 +
1/19/1920
The Allies formally recognize the independence of Armenia.
1/19/1920
Tried in Constantinople in absentia, Behaeddin Shakir is sentenced to death and Dr. Nazim to fifteen years hard labor.
1/21/1920
Turkish Nationalist forces affiliated with Mustafa Kemal attack Marash.
2/5/1920
10,000 Armenians are massacred in Marash.
4/1/1920
The Ittihadists distribute relief funds to party members in hiding in Turkey accused of crimes and to those who had fled to foreign countries.
4/22/1920
The United States of America officially recognizes the Independent Republic of Armenia.
4/23/1920
The Ottoman government in Constantinople announces that it will seek a new review by higher judicial bodies of the sentences against those tried by the courts martial.
4/25/1920
United States President Woodrow Wilson receives an invitation from the San Remo Conference to determine the borders of Armenia.
5/1/1920
The French and Turkish Nationalists agree to an armistice.
6/22/1920
Jemal Oguz, the murderer of the poet Daniel Varoujan and other Armenian intellectuals, escapes from custody with the assistance of the Military Governor of Constantinople.
6/29/1920
Five war criminals tried for the massacres in Erzinjan, all of whom had conveniently escaped from custody, are sentenced in absentia.
8/5/1920
The court martial condemns to death Nusret, vice-governor of Bayburt District.
8/10/1920
The Treaty of Sèvres is signed. According to articles 226, 227, 228, 229, 230 pertaining to the massacres, the Turkish government promises to hand over all documents and any persons requested by the Allies. Articles 88 and 89 recognize Armenia as a free and independent state.
8/15/1920
The Turkish Nationalist and Bolshevik forces form an alliance.
11/22/1920
President Woodrow Wilson presents his delineation of the borders of Armenia. A week later Armenia is partitioned by Turkish Nationalist forces and Sovietized by Russian Bolsheviks.
11/25/1920
Of 10,000 Armenians living in Hadjin (Hajen), only 480 survive a massacre by Turkish Nationalist forces.
12/30/1920
The trial on the massacres in Mosul begins.
1/3/1921
An acquittal is handed down for those accused of the massacre in Adrianople (Edirne).
1/18/1921
The Ottoman government abolishes the courts martial.
1/20/1921
The Turkish Nationalist Pact demands the inclusion of Armenia, Smyrna, and Thrace in Turkish territory.
1/21/1921
The trial on Erzerum massacres is reviewed by a new and higher court.
1/21/1921
Naim Jevad, an accused war criminal, is sent by Enver as an envoy from Moscow to Constantinople.
2/8/1921
Mustafa Pasha, presiding judge of the court martial which had condemned Nusret to death on August 5, 1920, was acquitted of the charge of having joined in a conspiracy against the government after six months of imprisonment and a trial. The trial signals the beginning of the reversal of the policy on bringing the Ittihadists to justice.
2/11/1921
After a ten-months siege, Aintab capitulates to Turkish Nationalist forces.
2/17/1921
The trial on the Keghi massacres is held.
2/18/1921
Some of the war criminals are acquitted.
2/24/1921
The investigation of the Der-el-Zor (Deir el-Zor) massacres begins.
3/10/1921
The investigation of the Der-el-Zor (Deir el-Zor) massacres continues.
3/15/1921
Talaat is assassinated in Berlin by an Armenian student, Soghomon Tehlirian. Talaat had been condemned to death by the Turkish court martial on July 11, 1919. (In 1943, the Turkish government removed the remains of Talaat from Nazi Germany and enshrined them with great ceremony on Liberty Hill in Constantinople.)
6/1/1921
The German Foreign Office obstructs the former German Consul at Aleppo, Rossler, from testifying in the Berlin court trying Talaat's assassin.
6/2/1921
Tehlirian's trial is held in Berlin.
6/3/1921
Tehlirian is acquitted.
12/6/1921
Said Halim is assassinated in Rome.
4/7/1922
Jemal Azmi, the governor-general of Trebizond during the massacres, and Behaeddin Shakir are assassinated in Berlin.
7/25/1922
Jemal Pasha, the former Minister of the Marine and the Fifth Army commander in Syria, is assassinated in Tiflis (Tbilisi).
8/26/1922
Anarchy spreads in Smyrna as the Turks press in on the city.
9/9/1922
The advance guard of the Turkish Army enters Smyrna and pillages Armenian and Greek homes and stores. Armenians and Greeks are killed in the thousands. Religious institutions, including the Armenian Prelacy in Smyrna, are ransacked.
9/13/1922
The burning of Smyrna by the Turks. Within 24 hours, 50,000 houses, 24 churches, 28 schools, 5 consulates, 7 clubs, 5 banks, and an unknown number of stores and warehouses are destroyed.
11/20/1922
The first Lausanne Conference is convened.
2/4/1923
The Lausanne Conference deadlocks over the Armenian Question.
4/23/1923
The second Lausanne Conference is convened.
7/24/1923
Treaty of Lausanne signed by Turkey and the Allies excludes all mention of Armenia or the Armenians. The new Turkish Nationalist state is extended international recognition. The Ottoman Empire goes out of existence.
8/23/1923
The Turkish Nationalist congress, known as the Grand National Assembly, meeting in Ankara ratifies the Lausanne Treaty. The Allies begin to evacuate the following day from all places in Turkey that had been occupied in accordance with the terms of the Armistice of October 30, 1918.
10/29/1923
The Republic of Turkey is proclaimed by the Turkish Grand National Assembly with Mustafa Kemal as its President.
8/22/1939
While addressing his military commanders at Obersalzburg, a week before the invasion of Poland, and the start of World War II, Adolph Hitler speaks of his orders "to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish race or language," and concludes his remarks by saying: "WHO STILL TALKS NOWADAYS OF THE EXTERMINATION OF THE ARMENIANS?"
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