When Armenian activists posted broadsides in 1893 , Ottoman troops jailed many Armenians and damaged some college buildings ; accusing Armenian students and teachers of being in contact with the rebels . The damage was rebuilt later with compensation paid by the Ottoman Government . In 1915 the Armenian Genocide came to Merzifon . That spring and summer , initially rights were restricted , then property was seized , and then hundreds of Armenians and Christians were seized and removed from the town . On August 10 , 1915 forces of the Ottoman Empire broke into the Anatolia College campus and seized Armenian faculty and students . Many were murdered on the spot ; the others were marched off for " deportation " ( in fact a death march ) . Those " deported " were never heard from again . This atrocity became known to the west when George E. White ( missionary ) , President of the college at the time , returned to the United States and described the scene to a New York Times reporter in 1917 . On September 30 , 1917 , the newspaper published the resulting article captioned , " Armenians Killed with Axes by Turks - Members of the Faculty at Anatolia College Among More than 1200 Slain at Marsovan . " In the wake of the Armenian Genocide the college took in and cared for hundreds of orphaned children of murdered Armenian parents
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Anatolia College in Merzifon