ARMENIAN GOLGOTHA
by Grigoris Balakian,
translated by Peter Balakian with Aris Sevag
Table of Contents
Introduction p. xiii Map p. xxx Chronology p. xxxiii Translator's Note p. xliii Volume I The Life of an Exile July1914-April 1916 Part I July-October 1914 1 In Berlin Before the War p. 5 2 In Berlin p. 10 3 Return to Constantinople from
Berlin p. 22 Part II The First Deportation, April
1915-February 1916 4 The General Condition of the
Armenians at the Beginning of 1915 p. 31 5 The First Bad News from
Cilicia: The Secret Messenger p. 49 Map p. 54 6 The Night of Gethsemane p. 56 7 Red Sunday p. 58 8 Toward a Place of Exile: The
Names of the Exiles in Ayash p. 61 9 Life in Chankiri Armory: The
Names of the Deportees in Chankiri p. 68 10 Life of the Deportees in the
City p. 74 11 Plan for the Extinction of the
Amenians in Turkey p. 77 12 The Armenian Carnage in
Ankara p. 82 13 The Tragic End of Deportee
Friends in Ayash p. 90 14 The Tragic End of the Chankiri
Deportees p. 95 15 The Deportation and Killing of
Zohrab and Vartkes p. 103 16 The Armenians of Chankiri in
the Days of Horror p. 106 17 The General Condition of the
Armenians at the Beginning of 1916 p. 117 18 Second Arrest and
Imprisonment p. 122 19 Departure from Chankiri to
Choroum p. 125 20 From Choroum to Yozgat p. 131 21 From Yozgat to Boghazliyan: The
Skulls p. 134 Part III The Second Deportation: The
Caravan of Death to Der Zor, February-April 1916 22 The Confessions of a Slayer
Captain p. 139 23 Encountering Another Caravan of
the Condemned p. 150 24 From Boghazliyan to Kayseri:
The Halys River Bridge and the Bandits of the Ittihad p. 162 25 Kayseri to Tomarza p. 170 26 Tomarza to Gazbel p. 179 27 Gazbel to Hajin p. 184 28 Hajin to Sis p. 195 29 Sis to Garzbazar p. 204 30 Garzbazar to Osmaniye p. 216 31 Osmaniye to Hasanbeyli and
Kanle-gechid p. 220 32 Hasanbeyli to Islahiye: The
Sweet Smell of Bread p. 230 33 Islahiye: A Field of Mounds for
Graves p. 240 34 Bad News from Der Zor p. 247 35 Escape from Islahiye to
Ayran p. 252 Volume II The Life of a Fugitive April
1916-January 1919 Part I In the Tunnels of Amanos 1 Escape on the Way to
Ayran-Baghche (Vineyard) p. 263 2 The Remnants of the Armenians
in the Amanos Mountains p. 268 3 Signs of Imminent New
Storms p. 272 4 The Treatment of the Armenians
by the German Soldiers p. 279 5 The Ghosts of Ten Thousand
Armenian Women in the Deserts of Ras-ul-Ain p. 282 6 The Deportation and Murder of
the Armenian Workers of Amanos p. 283 7 Bloodshed on the Way from
Baghche to Marash: A German Nurse Goes Insane p. 291 8 The Suffering of British
Prisoners of War at Kut-al-Amara p. 294 9 The Program of Forced
Islamization: Escape from Baghche to Injirli p. 298 10 In the Forests of Injirli:
Escape from Amanos to Taurus p. 302 Part II In the Tunnels of the Taurus
Mountains Map p. 308 11 The Self-Sacrifice of the
Armenian Workers of the Baghdad Railway p. 311 12 Fragments of Armenians in the
Taurus Mountains p. 316 13 In the Deep Valley of
Tashdurmaz p. 319 14 Life in Belemedik p. 322 15 The Deportation of Patriarch
Zaven Der Yeghiayan from Constantinople to Baghdad p. 326 16 Legions of Armenian Exiles in
Konya and Bozanti p. 331 17 Meeting Armenian Intellectuals
on the Road to Belemedik p. 335 18 Escape from Belemedik to
Adana p. 339 Part III In Adana, January 1917-September
1918 19 The General Condition of the
War at the Beginning of 1917 p. 347 20 A Mysterious Patient in Adana's
German Hospital p. 348 21 The Condition of the Remaining
Armenians in Adana p. 352 22 The Curse of Murdered Armenian
Mothers p. 356 23 The Natural Beauty of Cilicia:
The Disguised Vine Grower p. 357 24 The Clerk of the Office:
Disappearance p. 368 25 The General Condition of the
Armenians at the Beginning of 1918 p. 370 26 The Turkish Army Invades the
Caucasus, and the Armenians at Sardarabad p. 374 27 The Declaration of the Armenian
Republic p. 378 28 The Hospital-Slaughterhouse of
Turkish Soldiers p. 380 29 The Victorious British Army
Occupies Damascus: The Battle of Arara p. 389 30 The National Vow of the Turks
to Exterminate the Surviving Armenians: The General Massacre in Der Zor p. 392 31 Escape from the Land of
Blood p. 398 32 The Disguised German Soldier
Toward Constantinople: The Longing of a Mother p. 404 33 Armistice: The Allied Fleet
Victoriously Enters the Turkish Capital p. 411 34 Did the Victors Come to Punish,
or to Loot? p. 416 35 The General Condition of
Constantinople on the Eve of the Armistice p. 421 36 Irrevocable Departure from
Turkey: From Constantinople to Paris p. 430 Acknowledgments p. 435 Glossary p. 437 Biographical Glossary p. 441 Appendix: Author's
Preface p. 453 Map p. 458 Notes p. 461 Bibliography