January 9, 2025
Category: Foreign media
Armenian-Azerbaijani battles kill 37
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Jan 16, 1990 Baku, is “reminiscent of news from the warfront” in World War II, Soviet TV commentator Igor Kudrin said grimly. Izvestia said at least 33 people had died in the past three days in anti-Armenian rampages in Baku, a city of 1.7 million, but that the figure could rise as […]
37 die in Armenian-Azerbaijani battles
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Jan 16, 1990 By John-Thor Dahlburg Associated Press Writer MOSCOW – Hundreds of Azerbaijanis and Armenians fought with submachine guns, helicopters and armored vehicles as brutal ethnic strife that claimed at least 37 lives raged in the Soviet Caucasuses, official reports said yesterday. Facing the most violent flareup in the bloodiest ethnic […]
ARMENIAN RAIDERS
November 11, 1890 ERZEROUM, Nov. 10. — Five hundred armed Armenians concentrated at Mador, Russian territory, yesterday, and made a raid on several Kurdish villages, tilling five persons. The band was attacked and dispersed by Cossacks. The police here have made a large seizure of Martini rifles and ammunition intended for Armenians.
CRUELTY OF THE TURKS
November 6, 1890 PROF. BRYCE DESCRIBES THE CONDITION OF ARMENIA Prof. James Bryce addressed an audience of Armenians yesterday afternoon at the Grand Opera House Council Booms, Eighth Avenue and Twenty-third Street. Before beginning his address he was presented with a memorial thanking him in warmest terms for his efforts on behalf of suffering Armenia. […]
THE ARMENIAN TROUBLES
November 4, 1890 CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 3. — An encounter has occurred between a detachment of Turkish troops and a band of armed Armenians, near Erzengan, seventy-five miles southwest of Erzeroum, in Armenia. Seven of the soldiers were killed and fifteen were wounded. Acting under an order issued by the Sultan, the Governor of Erzeroum summoned […]
THE OUTRAGE IN TURKEY
October 28, 1890 WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. — Inquiry at the Department of State concerning the case of the American citizen, reported in the dispatches from Constantinople as being arrested and incarcerated for alleged complicity in Armenian revolutionary plots, fails to establish absolutely his identity. The department has in its possession the names of several American […]
OUTRAGES UPON ARMENIANS
October 16, 1890 VIENNA, Oct, 15. — A dispatch from Constantinople states that arrests of Armenians are still being made, and that many of those who have been taken into custody have been shockingly maltreated and tortured. Among other cruelties to which the prisoners have been subjected is the withholding from them of all food. […]
ARMENIANS TAKE REVENGE
October 14, 1890 CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 13. — Dispatches received here say that a party of Armenians and Druses attacked the barracks at Silensia, Syria, and blew up a portion of the buildings. Forty Turkish soldiers were killed. The Armenians then invaded the Government building, killed the Governor, and robbed the Treasury of its contents. From […]
ARMENIANS AND TURKS
October 5, 1890 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR HELPLESS CHRISTIANS THE VICTIMS OF THE SUBLIME PORTE To the Editor of the New-York Times: Disturbances of the gravest significance are being produced in the Ottoman Empire. The corrupt administration of the Turkish officials in Armenia, the Armenophobe policy of the Sublime Porte, the acquittal of Moussa Bey, […]