Djelal Munif Bey

Djelal Munif Bey or Celal Münif Bey (? - 1919) was an Ottoman diplomat and a member of the CUP, who was known to publicly deny the Armenian Genocide.[1] He was the Ottoman Consul General to the United States in New York.[2] He was murdered or involved in a murder suicide in September 1919 in Budapest.[3]

Djelal Munif Bey in 1914

See also

• Ottoman Empire-United States relations

References

1. http://www.groong.com/orig/ak-20141004.html
2. "Turkish Official Denies Atrocities". New York Times. October 15, 1915. Retrieved 2011-03-04. Djelal Munif Bey, the Turkish Muslim Ottoman Consul General in New York, in an official statement to The Times yesterday declared the report made public a week ago last Sunday by the American Committee on Armenian Atrocities, which asserted that not in the one thousand years just ended had a people suffered such terrible outrages as are those the Turks are perpetrating upon the Armenians to be a fabrication. The report described the atrocities as being officially sanctioned from Constantinople, and it was stated that the situation was one involving an attempt to wipe out an entire race.
3. "Djelal And His Wife Reported Murdered; But Lawyer Got Letter from Former Turkish Consul Saying Wife Committed Suicide". New York Times. December 23, 1919. Retrieved 2011-03-04. Djelal Munif Bey is remembered In New Fork because of his aim as well as because of his marriage to a divorcee, for which he was virtually banished from ...