Mehmed Reshid


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Mehmed Reshid
Mehmed Reshid (; 8 February 1873 – 6 February 1919) was Circassian physician, official of the Committee of Union and Progress, and governor (vali) of the Diyarbekir Vilayet (province) of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. He is infamous for organizing the wartime destruction of the ArmenianAssyrian, and Greek communities of Diyarbekir. He was known as the "butcher of Diyarbakir".

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