1909 ADANA-ERMENİ OLAYLARINA BİR TANIK: KIBAROĞULLARININ AĞITI.

In this essay it is aimed to publish the three Turkish dead complaint texts from Adana, those the execution of the sons from Kibaroğulları, a Turkish family, due to the Turkish-Armenian fight in the year 1909. The dead complaint texts composed by a relative of Kibaroğulları named Bahar Savaş from Adana recorded by one 95 years old person and are published for the first time here. There are 6 versions to this dead complaint, of which three are shown here as comparison material: the version of İsmail Görkem is the most extensive. Those the dead complaint underlying Turkish-Armenian fight of 1909 is here checked by further historical documents. A consistent counterpart for the verbally delivered dead complaint texts, exactly the same as Öztunas remarks form the memory-moderate excessive quantity of the memoirs of Cemal Paşa and Veron Dumehjian as a parallel to those from a German history dictionary. The dead complaint "Kibarların Destanı" proves innocence of the Turks who are executed and criticizes the attitude of the governor Cemal Pascha and the policy of the government at that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]