Map of Syria, Palestine, Turkey, and Mesopotamia from the Baedeker 1912 travel guide Palestine and Syria with Routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and with the Island of Cyprus.
". . . Osman-Chefket Bey was in great fear lest I make revelations to the Diplomatic Corps that would involve him and ultimately bring his head to the block, politically speaking, for his part in the atrocities. . . .Just before my departure, as was natural, I went to take leave of Enver. He received me with the same affectionate cordiality as of old. Accompanying me to the door of his study when I left, he told me he had already written a personal letter about me to Fesi Pasha of the Second Army commending me to him. I did my best to look pleased, though—from my ever useful friend, before mentioned—I already knew at least one sentence of that letter: 'De Nogales Bey must never return from that region.' This was the customary formula of the Young Turks when they desired to get rid of anyone on the quiet! All this took place about the end of September, 1917."
Rafael de Nogales was a Venezuelan mercenary and officer in the Ottoman Army who had taken part in the Turkish attack on the Armenian rebellion in the city of Van, part of the Turkish government's genocidal attacks on its Armenian citizens. With Turkish Interior Minister Mehmed Talaat Pasha and Naval Minister Ahmed Djemal Pasha, War Minister Ismail Enver Pasha ruled Turkey during World War I. Both contemporaries — including the German consul and Henry Morgenthau, American Ambassador at Constantinople from 1913 to 1916 — and later historians including Turkish historian Taner Akçam, lay primary responsibility for the Armenian Genocide on Talaat. The Young Turks, including Enver, had seized power in 1908.
Four Years Beneath the Crescent by Rafael De Nogales, pp. 390–391, copyright © 1926, by Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, publication date: 1926
1917-09-21, 1917, September, Young Turks, Enver Pasha, Enver, Location, Lake Van
