Ruben Sahakyan - On the Turkish occupation of Alexandropol and its province (According to the 1920–1921 reports of the newspaper “Communist”)
17 Pages | 103-120 | DOI: Doi.10.52853/01350536-2021.3-103 | Revceived on: 2021-09-11 | Reviewed on: 2021-09-15 | Accepted for printing on: 2021-10-01
Published in: 2021 N 3 (218) / Articles, reports
In Autumn 1920, the Armenian army was severely defeated by Kemalist troops. On November 17. 1920, the Turkish army entered the city of Alexandropol and organized the Revolutionary Committee consisting of local Communists, which in fact became an appendage of the invaders. The residents of the city and the province were subjected to daily illegal actions by the enemy: arrests, confiscations of property, murders. All diplomatic notes or statements of the leadership of Soviet Armenia remained unanswered.
KeywordsAlexandropol Turkish occupation newspaper “Communist” Armenian Genocide M. Ter-Grigoryan A. Nurijanyan S. Kasyan A. Bekzadyan P. Makintsyan.