Urfa resistance

Urfa resistance
Urfa uprising
Part of Armenian resistance during the Armenian genocide
Date29 September 1915 – 15/20 October 1915
Location
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire Ottoman Armenians

The Urfa resistance (Armenian: Ուրֆայի հերոսամարտի, Turkish: Urfa İsyanı) was an effort by some Ottoman Armenians in Urfa to defend themselves against the Armenian genocide launched by the Ottoman Empire. The resistance was quelled following German intervention.[1]

  1. ^ Kurdoghlian, Mihran (1996). Badmoutioun Hayots, Volume III (in Armenian). Athens, Greece: Hradaragoutioun Azkayin Oussoumnagan Khorhourti. pp. 93–95.

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