Yerevan

Description

“Yerevan” is a historical-political novel that recounts true events during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who was the first to initiate massacres against Armenians and other Christians under Ottoman rule.

Yerevan “Sacrificing, freedom-fighting Armenians”—this is how the Armenian people described their situation during that period. The novel begins on August 6, 1896. We are now in Constantinople, half past twelve, in the Karakoy district. At that moment, Armenian rebels attempted to blow up Yıldız Palace, where Sultan Abdul Hamid II resided… but they failed. Tensions between the Armenians and the Sultan escalated until Armenian villages were subjected to destruction by the Ottoman army for twenty-four days. … When the Sassoons once again refused to sacrifice their Kurdish neighbors, the Sultan, the shadow of God on earth, seized this opportunity to test the reaction of the Westerners who had long troubled him with the “Armenian Question.” There were reports of bound villagers burned alive, pregnant women with their bellies ripped open, and children whose bodies were torn to pieces… While some spoke of a thousand dead, others claimed the number reached three thousand… But where does the truth lie, and what… Behind the scenes of Ottoman politics, massacres, forced deportations, expulsions, and marches of hundreds of miles into the desert, enduring hunger and thirst—all this unfolds, told through the real events and characters of Turkish, European, Arab, and Armenian origin, in this novel.