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The number of Armenian notables deported from İstanbul / Constantinople in 1915 in the larger framework of Armenian Deportations in the Ottoman Empire , plausibly part of that same vast and organized processus, differ greatly from one source to the other. There is also a tendency among sources to concentrate the event around the date of 24 April 1915 , giving an impression of immediate arrests on that date and prompt exiling, although a case-by-case approach may diminish the validity of that impression. Another point to tackle would be the numerical proportion of the arrested inside the large Armenian community of the capital and the significance of their names within that community, assuming there were also notables who were not arrested. Others, like the poet Alpaslan ( Alexander Panossian who used the name of the Seljuk sultan as pen-name) were apparently arrested and then set free without being deported. , 44 survived the ordeal." The deportations of notables from the capital was (at least initially for some) directed to Çankırı and Ayaş . Dr. Khachig Boghosian , himself one of the deportees, writes in his 1955 memoirs, " {Link without Title} were 39 persons altogether, the majority of whom had no value as intellectuals...We learned that the previous ones, more than 150 Armenian intellectuals had been sent to an unknown place by train during the time I was brought to the Central Prison (immediately after the arrest on 24 April). {Link without Title} . Strange as it may seem, Turkish sources tend to provide higher figures for the number of deportees from the capital. SEE ALSO |
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