What is Adana massacre?
[[Image:Adanabodies.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Body of Armenians massacred during the Adana massacre.]] The '''Adana [[:wikt:massacre|massacre]]''' happened in [[Adana Province, Ottoman Empire|Adana Province]], in the [[Ottoman Empire]], in April 1909. A religious-ethnic clash in the city of [[Adana]] amidst [[Countercoup (1909)|governmental upheaval]] resulted in a series of anti-Armenian [[pogrom]]s throughout the district.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/08/22/archives/the-slaughter-of-christians-in-asia-minor.html|title=The Slaughter of Christians in Asia Minor|first=James|last=Creelman|date=22 August 1909|publisher=|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> Reports estimated that the massacres in Adana Province resulted in 20,000 to 30,000 deaths.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/04/25/archives/30000-killed-in-massacres-conservative-estimate-of-victims-of.html|title=30,000 KILLED IN MASSACRES; Conservative Estimate of Victims of Turkish Fanaticism in Adana Vilayet. DEADLY WORK CONTINUES Tribesmen Besiege Towns and March on Others -- Messengers to American Women Slain. CLASH FEARED AT BEIRUT Druses Gather to Avenge Murder of Deputy and Mohammedans Prepare to Oppose Them.|date=25 April 1909|publisher=|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/05/07/archives/article-8-no-title.html|title=Article 8 -- No Title|date=7 May 1909|publisher=|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>The Armenian Genocide, Arte France, The cie des Phares et Balises</ref><ref>Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views By Samuel. Totten, William S. Parsons, Israel W. Charny</ref><ref>Walker, 1980, pp.182-88</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == {{commons category|Adana massacre}} * [http://armenianhouse.org/gibbons/gibbons-helen-davenport.html The Red Rugs Of Tarsus - A Woman’s Record of the Armenian Massacre of 1909] * [http://www.armenian-genocide.org/adana.html Adana Massacre] [[Category:Massacres in Turkey]] [[Category:Armenian Genocide]] [[Category:1909]] [[Category:20th