Event

Allied warning of 24 May 1915

Britain, France and Russia told the Ottoman government they would hold its members and agents personally responsible for massacres of Armenians.

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British government one of the three governments that issued it Primary record 1
Russian government one of the three governments that issued it Primary record 1
Ottoman Empire the government it was addressed to; its grand vizier answered that it resented the interference Primary record 2 3

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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, document 1400: the Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State, 10 July 1915, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 10 Jul 1915. Primary record
They state that it is the Union and Progress committee's nationalistic policy which they refused to modify even when Russia, France, and Great Britain threatened Ottoman Cabinet Ministers with personal responsibility.
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, document 1398: the Ambassador in France (Sharp) to the Secretary of State, 28 May 1915, transmitting the Allied note of 24 May, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 28 May 1915. Primary record
In view of these new crimes of Turkey against humanity and civilization, the Allied governments announce publicly to the Sublime Porte that they will hold personally responsible [for] these crimes all members of the Ottoman Government and those of their agents who are implicated in such massacres.
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1915, Supplement, document 1399: the Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau) to the Secretary of State, 18 June 1915, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 18 Jun 1915. Primary record
Grand Vizier who expressed regret at being held personally responsible and resentment at attempted interference by foreign governments with the sovereign rights of the Turkish Government over their Armenian subjects.

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