# A Family Account of an Alleged Massacre by Armenians in a Village

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117707861631599094
- Source account: [@itslevon](https://x.com/itslevon)
- Source language: Turkish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:38
- Published: 2026-11-06
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village) I am Şahsen Cendem. If I leave without killing one Armenian, God will ask me about it.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=5) We had five, Mrs. Fitnat, Mrs. Rayla, and three of them were from me.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=10) They put them in the tandır like this. The women had a fountain lamp, it gives you a feeling like this on a slope.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=16) They apparently rubbed it on their faces.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=18) They apparently rubbed their own filth on themselves so the Armenians wouldn't come near.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=24) And they took them out of the tandır. We call it something like a tum-sack, they put them in the sack.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=34) They cut their heads off like this. I heard this from my aunt.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=37) The woman's head gets cut off from here like this.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=40) She was going around like this, they were spinning around like a pinwheel.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=44) You know, asking, 'Why are you hiding?' They committed terrible atrocities.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=47) I mean, it's impossible to describe. They wrote this, even though no law, no order, no person would accept it.

[0:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=54) They wrote, 'Those who say “hell” go up, those who say “dead flesh” go down.'

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=57) The women are upstairs. The old men had all gone to the village anyway, there was no one there.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=64) Anyway, brother, they filled it with old men like these, sixty, seventy, fifty-five years old. they filled it with old men like these.

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=70) Using the hay-stuffing thing, basically, they poured gasoline on top and set it on fire.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=76) Kazım Karabekir wrote in his notebook that “I've never seen such a disgrace in my life.”

[1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=82) Whoever this Armenian was, God is watching, may God damn them.

[1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lmid13eoWXwu/en/a-family-account-of-an-alleged-massacre-by-armenians-in-a-village?t=88) I mean, the torture inflicted on us, on this village, what they did to this village, they did it in a way that defies all reason and logic.