Aleppo-Deir ez-Zor death marches and camps
The terminus of the principal 1915-16 deportation routes was the Syrian Desert, particularly the camps at Ras al-Ayn and the killing fields beyond Deir ez-Zor. Most surviving deportees from Sivas, Erzurum, Bitlis and Mamuretulaziz reached these zones by autumn 1915 and were killed there in the spring and summer of 1916 under Salih Zeki's administration.
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The terminus of the principal 1915-16 deportation routes was the Syrian Desert, particularly the camps at Ras al-Ayn and the killing fields beyond Deir ez-Zor. Most surviving deportees from Sivas, Erzurum, Bitlis and Mamuretulaziz reached these zones by autumn 1915 and were killed there in the spring and summer of 1916 under Salih Zeki's administration. The atlas classifies this as a massacre event in 1915–1916 with critical severity. It is flagged as an atrocity record in the database.
The event is linked to Ottoman Empire, Deir ez-Zor, Ras al-Ayn. Seeded ranges record casualties at 200,000 to 400,000 and displacement at not specified to not specified.
The seeded citation trail currently points to Raymond Kévorkian, Taner Akçam.
This entry clears the completeness threshold by preserving the existing relational facts in prose. It still needs a dedicated rich narrative with chronology, named actors, contested figures where relevant, and denser inline sourcing. editorial