BİRİNCİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI SÜRECİNDE İTİLAF DEVLETLERİ VATANDAŞLARININ ZORUNLU İKAMET MERKEZLERİNDEN BİRİ OLARAK URFA MUTASARRIFLIĞI
URFA MUTASARIRIFIYA, ONE OF THE COMPULSORY ACCOMMODATION CENTERS OF THE ENTENTE CITIZENS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Summary/Abstract: After the outbreak of World War I, the citizens of the Entente Powers resident in the Ottoman Empire were ordered to convene in particular centers within the country. It was likely that the chief reason behind this decision was the idea of reacting against the illtreatment exposed by the Ottoman subject in the countries under the rule of Entente Powers, as well as the concern about security measures. The province of Urfa, for example, was one of these centers. The citizens of the Entente Powers living in towns under the authority of Ottoman 4th Army, in particular, from the early days 1915, began to be dispatched to Urfa. The geographical position of the town was decesive in this preference. It was situated between the 4th Army and the rest of Anatolia and it was not close sea. Those who were instructed to settle in Urfa to a great extent composed of French and English citizens, who were acting as missionaries. Thus, England and France, through the Unites States of America, unveiled their worries about their people subjected to settlement in Urfa and protested against this. In 1916, most of the foreign citizens settled in Urfa were transferred to other towns in deep interior of Anatolia, such as Niğde and Kayseri. But still some of them seem to have kept on residing in Urfa compulsorily till the end of the war.

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