Armenian Population
The 2,898 Armenians lived in six localities, maintaining six churches and five (?) schools.[1]
Armenian settlements:
Apushta, Darsaki, Toghut (Teghut), Kharakhaya (Gharaghaya), Hasanova (administrative center), Mets Armtan, Pokr Armtan.[2]
Destruction
“The inhabitants of the six towns and villages of the kaza Kuruçay (…) – Greater Armdan, Lesser Armdan, Apshda, Hasanova, Tughud, and Dantsi – as well as those in the six towns and villages of the district of Koziçan [nahiye; Armenian: Գուզուջան – Guzujan, Գուզիջան – Guzijan], which had an Armenian population of 4,700, were not massacred in their villages, but deported. Most of the men were exterminated at Lecki Bridge, while the women and children had their throats slit in the vicinity of Acem Dağ under the supervision of the parliamentary deputy from Kemah, Halet Bey, together with Şevki Abbas Oğlu, Hüseyin Ağa of Gerjanis, Elias Oğlu Mehmed Ağa, and Hüseyin Bey Zade Hasan. Şevki Abbas Oğlu personally murdered the brothers Parsegh and Markar Avoyan and sent their heads to the mutesarif, Meduh, as a form of homage.”[3]