The sancak Genç was composed of the three kazas Genç (Ardushen), Pasur [Bassor; Khulp] as well as Chapaghjur (Ճապաղջուր).
Destruction
„The sancak of Genç, traversed by the eastern Euphrates, lay at the northwestern-most tip of the vilayet of Bitlis. It had lost the great bulk of its Armenian population to massacres or Islamization in 1895. In 1915, there were only 23 modest Armenian localities left in the sancak, with a total Armenian population of 4,344. The Armenians feeble numbers facilitated the task of the main local Young Turk leaders – the parliamentary deputy Çerkez Ahmed Emin Bey, Hasan Bey, and Ahmed Bey – who organized the massacres in the kazas of Chabaghjur and Pasur [Bassor; Khulp] under the supervision of [governor; vali] Abdülhalik, and with direct support from the army. There is no trace of survivors from this region. We have only meager descriptions of the circumstances surrounding the massacres, which we owe to local Turks whom the inhabitants of Mush later encountered in Aleppo. The deportees were for the most part massacred at Palu bridge.”
Excerpted from: Raymond Kévorkian: The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History. London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011, p. 352f.
