 At the news of his troops' defeat, Abaqa hastened to Anatolia (July 1277) and sternly punished the Seljuk Turks, sources citing massacres of tens of thousands of people.Deeming him responsible for Baybars's foray into Anatolia, Abaqa also had Pervâne killed on 2 August 1277.The story that the Abaqa forced his subjects to eat the flesh of the Pervâne has its origin in Armenian history of Hetoum.