Mount Ararat with the historic Khor Virap monastery visible at center-left

Genocide & Resilience

Çelal Bey, the Ottoman governor of Aleppo, refused to carry out deportation orders and sheltered tens of thousands of Armenian deportees; he was subsequently removed from his post for non-compliance, a documented act of resistance within the Ottoman bureaucracy.

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Çelal Bey, the Ottoman governor of Aleppo, refused to carry out deportation orders and sheltered tens of thousands of Armenian deportees; he was subsequently removed from his post for non-compliance, a documented act of resistance within the Ottoman bureaucracy. 

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