Հայ-քրդական հողային վեճերը Վանի նահանգում 1908-1914 թթ. և իշխանությունների դիրքորոշումը

Abstract

After the adoption of the Constitution of the Young Turks, taking advantage of political freedoms established in the country Western Armenians took measures to restore their territorial rights in various parts of Western Armenia, including Van. In its turn, the Government of the Young Turks hastened to return them the estates, which were taken away from them by the old regime and by the Kurds after the massacres of the 1890s. ArmenianTurkish-Kurdish Land Committees, Committees of Solidarity were established to restore land rights, and a number of decisions regulating land issues were adopted. During this period, the Government and the judiciary had to act justly to confirm the rights of Armenians. It was for this reason that Armenians were able to get back the lands that had been a matter of dispute before. Nevertheless, the Ottoman authorities feared Kurdish anti-government protests and were forced to refuse from land dispute regulating programs.