The
deportation of Armenian intellectuals, sometimes known as
Red Sunday (
Western Garmir giragi), was an event during the
Armenian Genocide in which leaders of the Armenian community in the
Ottoman capital of
Constantinople, and later other locations, were arrested and moved to two holding centers near
Ankara. The to do so was given by Minister of the Interior
Talaat Pasha on 24 April 1915. On that night, the first wave of 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals of Constantinople were arrested. Eventually, the total number of arrests and deportations amounted to 2,345. With the adoption of the
Tehcir Law on 29 May 1915, these detainees were later relocated within the
Ottoman Empire; most of them were ultimately killed. A few, such as
Vrtanes Papazian and
Komitas, were saved through intervention.