of Khoy and I gave the order to massacre the Armenians of Maku. If you with to be well treated, honor the promises that you have just made. If you do not, I cannot offer you any guarantees. This speech was affirmed by the archives of the French foreign ministry which states: Ali Ihsan Paşa, formerly the Commander of the Army Corps stationed at Van, entered Tabriz at the end of June 1918 in the capacity of Commander-in-Chief of the Ottoman Forces in Azerbaijan...In an address to an Armenian delegation he said approximately the following: "Let it be known that during my entry into Khoi I had the Armenians of the area massacred, without distinction of age and sex ..." During a reception of the Armenian Prelate Mgr. Nerses, Ali Ihsan told him: "I had a half a million of your coreligionists massacred. I can offer you a cup of tea." See also List of high-ranking commanders of the Turkish War of Independence List of Commanders of the First Army of Turkey References External links 1882 births 1957 deaths Military personnel from Istanbul Democrat Party (Turkey, 1946–1961) politicians 20th-century Turkish politicians Deputies of Afyonkarahisar Ottoman Army generals Turkish Army generals Ottoman military personnel of the Balkan Wars Ottoman military personnel of World War I Turkish military personnel of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) Commanders of the First Army of Turkey Armenian genocide perpetrators Malta exiles Ottoman Imperial School of Military Engineering alumni Ottoman Military College alumni Burials at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery