Haruniye Alman Yetimhanesi
Harunıye German Orphanage

Summary/Abstract: The Armenian events that took place towards the end of the 19th century were a great opportunity for the mission organizations due to their results and they had opened one station in the eastern regions. The events in Adana and its surroundings in 1909 also created a new working area for mission organizations and German missionaries started to operate in the region with the orphanage they opened in Haruniye Subdistrict which is subject to the Bahçe Township (Adana Province). The German Relief Organisation (Deutscher Hülfsbund für Christliches Liebeswerk in Orient), which has an important place in the establishment of the German Orphanage, in the 1890s, Maraş, Mamuretülaziz and Van in the area of the establishment of the units and work here in terms of the mission had made successful work. The Relief Organisation was able to carry out an effective mission in the regions of operation by opening orphan homes, health units, nursing homes and workshops for widows. In this study, the Haruniye German Orphanage which is one of the important stations of the German Relief Organisation, predominantly the notes written by the missionaries working at the stations in that period and other copyrighted works (German) and the Ottoman Archive documents will be evaluated. Firstly, the establishment of the orphanage and in this direction the correspondence of the missionaries with the Ottoman authorities will be revealed. Then, information about the status and activities of the orphanage will be given before the First World War and during the years of war, which is a critical period for the Ottoman Empire. Finally, with the end of the war, the fate of the children who remain in the orphanage and how the organization has been transferred to the Near East Relief, the American aid organization, will be explained.

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