Henry Morgenthau was United States ambassador to Ottoman Turkey between 1913 and 1916. In his book 'Henry Morgenthau's story' (here and here) we read about the Genocide of the Christians of the Ottoman Empire, including Arameans who are mentioned by the synonym Syrians.

Abdel Messih Naaman Karabasi

Blood shed; By: Abdel Messih Naaman Karabasi

The book is available in Aramaic, Turkish, German and Dutch at the St. Aphrem the Syrian Monastery in the Netherlands.

The Forgotten Genocide: Eastern Christians, The Last Aramaeans, By Sebastien de Courtois

Archpriest Sleyman Henno

"The persecution and extermination of the Syro- Arameans in Tur Abdin in 1915" is from the hand of archpriest Sleman Henno. 

The book is available in Aramaic, German, Dutch and the English translation is in process. 

Sebastien de Courtois

Abdel Messih Naaman Karabasi

1. Page. 105 of the book

They (=Muslims) had divided themselves into groups and proceeded systematically house by house, taking good care not to touch the Muslims’ homes. They kicked in the doors, looted everything, and if the people were home, they slit their throats. They killed everyone they could find, men, women, and children; the girls were kidnapped. Almost all city’s Muslims, soldiers, zaptiyes and the Kurds, took part in the horrible butchery (Page 105, Report #18, December 18, 1895)

2. Page. 109 of the book

Acts of unbelievable cruelty were committed. “A father had his five children’s throats slit in his lap, and then he met same fate “ (Page 109, Report #18, December 18, 1895)

3. Page. 113 of the book

The village of Qarabash, to the east of Diyarbekir, was inhabited entirely by Syrians (= Arameans) and was destroyed. A Syrian Orthodox priest watched his daughters raped before his eyes, and then their throats were slit. Left alive, he went insane (page 113).

4. Page. 113 of the book

The villages of Kabia, Jarukia, Kan Akbwar, Arz ogli, Kazam, Olan, Kadia, Satia, Safia and Masbrakia all met the same fate….. the Kurds and the Turks slit the inhabitants throats and erased them from the map (Page 113)

1. Page. 39/40 of the book

Disaster  and persecutions where the Christians of Amid and the surrounding villages in 1985 were exposed to.

Between the books  of priest Paulus- the son of priest Abdul Ahad of the family Qascho Lahdo-, the priest of the village of Qarabasch, I found a flyer, on which the persecutions of 1895 were described by the pen of priest Abdul Ahad, one of those who were persecuted during the horrible ordeals where the Christians of the city Amid, Edessa, krotfrot, Sibabrak, Militini, Sasun and other villages  in their surroundings were exposed to.

... ... At the beginning of November 1895 the bloodthirsty and full of hatred envy Muslim leaders in Amid, started a persecution against the Christians, which was  led by Gamil Pascha, Bahram Pascha and other tyrants. They called for the Kurds, to be ready to attack the Christians and kill them; they were promised, that they would get weapons when they would arrive in Amid........

2. The village Qarabasch (Page. 42/43 of the book)

 ...... On the first Friday in November, the Kurds entered the village and killed and robed the inhabitants for two days long. The greater part of them escaped to the Pigeontower eastern of the city. The Kurds attacked the fortress and destroyed it above on the Syrians who underneath were buried. Those who tried to escape were killed by the Kurds in front of the gate of the fortress: not a single person could escape.... the daughter of priest Hanna, who was married and was carrying her Child Zacharias on her flee when a Kurd stabbed her with his sword in her back in such a way that the sword through her belly hit the child: both of them died......

3. The village Alibar (Page. 43/44 of the book)

The leaders of the Muslims told them nasty: 'Come, we will bring you to Amid and save you from events which are to us as neighbors outrageous.' And when the Muslims had gathered them and were brought outside the city, they killed all of them; subsequently they went back to the village and possessed their properties.

Sebastien de Courtois

Abdel Messih Numan Karabasi

1. Page. 162/163 of the book

From March to November 1915, an immense red line the colour of blood streaked the sky of Turkey. Monstrous deeds were occurring, nameless, indefinable, as the young Ottoman land decimated, or rather annihilated its own sons with its own hands-most of them serving in its army-evicted them from their homes, raped their daughters, kidnapped their wives, scattered their families, torched their villages, deporting the survivors, burning the dead.

Reader, may God permit the present work to reach its goal, which is to report and to glorify! My ambition (is it too pretentious?) would be for it to become an account and an epic. As an account, it will speak of the abominable events that took place in a corner of Turkey; it will tell of the extremes to which a country that has not shed its savage instincts can go, and by what barbarous finesse that same country, in the twentieth century, has delighted in covering unspeakable acts behind an respectable face, or rather behind a grimace of respectability.

The shame of seeing the property of God and of individuals stolen in the light of day and auctioned off. The shame of seeing deep wells filled to the top with corpses, such as the wells of Dara [Oguz], of Dakikiye, etc. The shame of seeing wide Christian lands emptied of their inhabitants. The shame of seeing whole valleys covered with victims, their throats slit, their stomachs disembowelled, such as the valley of the Lice district to the northwest of Diyarbakir (Page 161/162, H. Simon).

2. Page. 167 of the book

They were accompanied by Memduh Bey, by his aide de-camp, and by a crowd of Turkish army rabble. On the way, the soldiers were ordered to kill 70 of them between Encrai and Set Anna [ villages along the road to Diyarbakir]. The 400 that were left were divided into two groups in front of the Zirzewan citadel, and some of the Kurdish soldiers beat them to death. Finally, near Diyarbakir on the black bridge, the survivors, including Mgr. Malovan, were in turn executed by firing squad after their cruel martyrdom (Page 167 RAHMANI report, op. cit..)

3. Page. 177 of the book

In Diyarbakir, much of the population has been massacred or has died after their deportation, which was executed with the greatest cruelty, not to mention their devastated and looted properties and belongings. It is to be noted that many have also embraced Islam, by fear, to save their lives, or by constraint, others are still held as slaves by their aggressors.’ (Page 177, G. Habra)

1. (C. The Ka‘biye Page. 86/87/88/89/90/91)

On 1st of April 1915 the government ordered strictly that Christians had to deliver all kind of weapons. Because of that, three captains of the army left Amid on 10^th of April and went to the city of Ka’biye. They were captain Sidqi, the son of Biringi, Jahja, the son of Jassin and Tharwat, the son of Othman. They got at their disposal 50 soldiers of the 50^th army regiment. ……………………..

Oh! Tyranny which lacks mercy. And I cannot speak about the deprivations and the dishonouring of the virgin and honourable women by the (Turkish) soldiers. Deeds which thrashes the face of the Satan. ……………………

On 20^th of April (1915), at 5 o’clock in the evening, Kurds of different tribes attacked the village of Ka’biye. ………….They brought the prisoners to the road in the direction of Igil, to the top of a hill, from where one could see the Euphrates: there they were undressed, killed and thrown down into the Euphrates…………And in the first night watch, they set the bodies of the poor martyrs (killed Christians) on fire to warm themselves up till the next morning………..Because in the village there were only women and children left, the Kurds came back and took every women they wished to take…. (page 89)……………………. the men were set apart from the women, and before the eyes of everybody they aimed the pistols on them and shot them dead, and the dead bodies of the victims fell down like sheep on the ground. After this, the Kurdish groups appeared like wild animals, armed with deadly weapons such as axes, hooks, swords, daggers, sticks and sickles. Oh, what bitter, sadness it is, which cannot be solaced, to see how the babies at the breast of their mothers were snatched and their blood was mixed with milk, how the mothers were raped before the eyes of everybody, and that there was nobody who could prevent or put a stop to that. (Page 90)………….. 

2. (C. The wildness of the criminals (Page 132))

One of the soldiers of the 50^th army told us: when a group of persecuted Christians were on the way to be killed, a woman, the mother of a little boy of two years, said to a soldier’ I know that I am going to be killed, here is my son, take him with you and adopt him, here have a tree golddinar to take care fore him’. The soldier took the golddinar and put it in his pocket; after that he took the child away and smashed it against a rock before him, so that he died immediately before the eyes of the mother.

Archpriest Sleman Henno

1. Page. 32 of the book

Dear reader, I have explained to you the reasons for the mass killings, and the way they were carried out. Come with me to visit all the regions where the mass killings took place, to see what these two peoples, the Turks and Kurds – who are notorious because of their horror, maliciousness and lack of compassion-, the massacres they have caused and innocent blood they have shed. These areas of Anatolia till the borders of Ottoman Empire, thus till to Persia and Russia, were inhabited by many Christens. We will encounter tragedies and bloodshed which has no equal. From the Creation of the world until now; nobody have seen such a thing: Children, women’s and elders were stabbed to death and infants were taken from the womb of their mother and smashed against the walls. What a horrible unbearable fate. Something like this even was not managed by the godless Djengis Khan neither by the Ta- Mongolian Hüläga and Timur Lenk. Even in the times of heathenism is about such a thing never noticed. Not a tong, not a pen can describe such a thing. The tears wells out of our eyes and stream over the cheeks. Complete cities were robbed of Christians as if there never any Christian have had lived. In many villages, there was even nothing left which could be remembered to the Christians.