Three Armenians are hanged publicly in Mush without trial.
The mass arrests of Armenian leaders in Aintab are begun.
The Armenian refugees from Zeitun found in Marash, who had previously been spared deportation, are removed to the Syrian Desert.
Armenians are deported from the northern villages of Erzerum Province.
Armenians in the Khnus region of Erzerum Province are massacred.
Armenians were later deported with the passage of Tehcir Law
300 Armenian community leaders are arrested in Shabin-Karahisar
The New York Times reports of a plan for the destruction of the whole Armenian nation.
Instructions are sent to prevent foreign officers from photographing dead Armenians.
14,000 Armenians are massacred in Ras-el-Ain . 24,000 deportees are reported still living in Ras-el-Ain .
The appointment of the new German ambassador in Constantinople, Richard von K¸hlmann, who serves until July 1917, when he is promoted to the office of Foreign Minister.
Halide Hanum, the Turkish female author, and head of an orphanage established in Syria, receives 70 Armenian orphans in her orphanage in order to Turkify them.
20,000 Armenians in the city of Aleppo are reported in extreme distress.
12,000 Armenian deportees are murdered in Buseira, near Der-el-Zor
The Turkish government orders the Turkification and Islamization of the surviving Armenian Catholics
The Allies formally recognize the independence of Armenia
