Appendix E: Memorandum to the Lawyers of Soghomon Tehlirian

Abstract

The documents reproduced in my book, Documents officiels concernant les massacres arméniens (Paris, 1920), were in the possession of Naim Bey, who had been the Secretary of the Sub-Directorate for Deportees in Aleppo. The Sub-Directorate—whose central leadership was located in Constantinople, and which had as director-general a young member of the Committee of Union and Progress by the name of Shukri Bey—was responsible for carrying out all of the orders and measures concerning the Armenian deportees, as Aleppo was the central point from which these deportees were led toward the deserts of Syria and Mesopotamia.