During the Armenian Genocide, when 1.5 million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1917, several Turkish civilians, politicians and military leaders refused to participate in the massacres and loot
Ahmet Rıza, 1909
Hüseyin Nesimi Bey
Mehmet Celal Bey, 1911
Mehmed Reshid
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Mehmed Reshid was an Ottoman politician and physician, official of the Committee of Union and Progress, and governor of the Diyarbekir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. He is known for
Turkish opposition to the Armenian genocide
…that after his dismissal, "the looting of Armenian property in the region, both by the officials and the people, reached incredible proportions." Mehmed Reshid Bey, who was the governor of Diyarbekir vilayet during the genocide, preferred to exterminate the Armenians in the Diyarbekir region with a quick massacre…
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