Mehmed Reshid
| Mehmed Reshid | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Governor of Diyarbekir | |
|
In office 25 March 1915 – 1918? |
|
| Preceded by | Hamid Bey |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 February 1873 Russian Empire |
| Died | 6 February 1919 (aged 45) |
| Political party | Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) |
| Spouse(s) | Mazlûme Hanım |
| Alma mater | Constantinople Military School of Medicine |
| Profession | Doctor |
Mehmed Reshid (Turkish: Mehmet Reşit Şahingiray; 8 February 1873 – 6 February 1919) was a Turkish 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 Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek communities of Diyarbekir. He was known as the "butcher of Diyarbakir".
Reshid was born on 8 February 1873 to a Turkish-Circassian family, but due to increasing Russian persecution, he left with his family for the Ottoman Empire in 1874.
He enrolled in the Imperial Military School of Medicine at the capital, Dersaadet, and was one of the founders of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP). In 1894, Reshid was appointed as an assistant to the German professor Düring Pasha at the Haydarpaşa hospital. When his links to the CUP were discovered by police in 1897 he was exiled to Libya.Kieser 2011, p. 130.</ref> He served as a doctor in Tripoli until 1908, when he returned to Constantinople (today Istanbul) following the Young Turk Revolution. He resigned from his position in the Ottoman military the following year, and pursued a career in state administration that took him from İstanköy to the Lebanon to Karesi and ultimately Diyarbekir.
...
Wikipedia