Լեւոն Վարդան2025-08-122025-08-121994Վարդան, Լ., «Պոլսահայութիւնը, Բարձրագոյն Դուռը եւ այլ բաներ (30 Սեպտեմբեր 1895)», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 1994, Պէյրութ, էջ 99-145https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/713This is the third and the last instalment of a heavily documented study on the Armenian manifestation of September 30, 1895, when the Constantinople chapter of the Henchakist committee tried to present a petition to the Sublime Porte to ask for amelioration of the lot of Armenians in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire. The first two instalments of the study were published in the 1992 and 1993 issues of the Haigazian Armenological Review (vols. XII and XIII). The third section of the study presents at length the aftermath of the Armenian manifestation, subsequent events such as: the Armenian massacres which lasted till October 13, the at random apprehension and imprisonment of the Armenians and of those who appeared to be Armenian, the assembling of the Armenians who took refuge in their churches fearing the massacres perpetrated by the Turkish soldiery, softas and Turks of the Ottoman capital. Turkish misrule also threatened the lives of the western missionaries in Constantinople, the intervening, the various forms of pressure and the different aspects of western diplomacy vis-à-vis to the massacres carried on, the Ottoman Sultan's policy toward his Armenian subjects, the evacuation of the Armenians crowded in their various churches, and at last, under the pressure of western diplomacy, the Sultan’s acceptance and signing of the Reform Bill of May 11, 1895. The instalment published here is made up of three different sections. The first two deal with the subjects mentioned above, while the third tries to analyze and evaluate the results, achieved or not, of the Armenian manifestation, letting the students of Armenian history to take their hold, for or against, on the controversy emanating from the issue.