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Halil Kut (1881 – August 20, 1957)〔"Kutülamara kahramanı Halil Kut dün vefat etti", ''Milliyet'', August 21, 1957.〕 was an Ottoman and Turkish regional governor and military commander. Halil Pasha was the uncle of Enver Pasha, who was the War Minister during World War I and one of the main organizers of the Armenian Genocide and the Assyrian genocide. He oversaw the massacre of Armenian men, women and children in Bitlis, Mush, and Beyazit. Many of the victims were buried alive in specially prepared ditches. He also crossed into neighboring Persia and massacred the Armenian, Assyrian, and Persian population. Kut claimed in his memoirs that he personally killed "more or less" 300,000 Armenians. During a meeting at Yerevan in the summer of 1918, in front of many Armenians Kut declared: "I have endeavored to wipe out the Armenian nation to the last individual." == Early career == He graduated from the War Academy (Staff College) at Constantinople〔''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'', Vol.7, Edited by Hugh Chisholm, (1911), 3; "''Constantinople, the capital of the Turkish Empire...''".〕 in 1905 as a Distinguished Captain (''Mümtaz Yüzbaşı''). For three years following his graduation he served the Third Army in Macedonia. When the constitutional order was restored in 1908, the government sent him to Iran to organize dissidence against the Shah whom Persia had installed during the Persian Constitutional Revolution. After the Countercoup (1909) of 13 April 1909, he was called back and became the commander of the Imperial Guard. Initially he was at Salonica to command the mobile gendarmerie units in the region and was involved in fighting insurgents and bandits prior to the Balkan Wars. He also commanded a unit during Balkan Wars.〔M. Taylan Sorgun,"Bitmeyen Savaş",1972. Memoirs of Halil Paşa〕 He was among the group of young officers sent to Libya (''Trablusgarp'') in 1911 to organize the defense against the Italian invasion during the Italo-Turkish War. Before World War I, he served as the commander of the gendarmerie regiment in Van. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Halil Kut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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