Haftevan is a village in Zulachay Rural District of the Central District of Salmas County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. In early 1915, the village was occupied by the Ottoman Army, whose commander required local Christians to register for food rations. Instead, 700 Christians were executed in the village on the orders of Djevdet Bey. Kurdish tribesm…Haftevan is a village in Zulachay Rural District of the Central District of Salmas County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. In early 1915, the village was occupied by the Ottoman Army, whose commander required local Christians to register for food rations. Instead, 700 Christians were executed in the village on the orders of Djevdet Bey. Kurdish tribesmen under the command of Simko Shikak also took part in this massacre. Russian Army commander K. Matikyan reported seeing "with my own eyes hundreds of mangled corpses in pits, stinking from infection, lying in the open. I saw headless corpses, chopped off by axes, hands, legs, piles of heads, corpses crushed under rocks from fallen walls". According to historian David Gaunt, "This was where the Ottoman soldiers learned to execute unarmed noncombatant Christians", leading to the Armenian genocide and Assyrian genocide.
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