Çetes

Çetes or Tchetas were Muslim armed irregular brigands who were active in Asia Minor since World War I. They were notorious for their brutal assaults on life, property and honor and were responsible for the atrocities against Christian Orthodox Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians during the 1910s and 1920s.[1][2]

Not to be confused with Chetas.

References
  1. Raymond Kevorkian. The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History, ISBN 0857730207, I.B.Tauris, 2011.
  2. George N. Shirinian. Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923, ISBN 1785334336, Berghahn Books, 2017.

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