Agin

Agin is a town and area of Elazig Province of Turkey. The chairman is Yılmaz Serttaş Nationalist Movement Party MHP. The number of inhabitants in the town is 1844 starting at 2010. The city of Agin was at first established by Armenians who had moved there from Iran. In 1896, the city was equally partitioned among Muslims and Armenians. The city was perceived for its riches and had beforehand gotten away from the 1895-1896 Hamidian slaughters through a payoff installment by the Armenians of 1500 Turkish gold pounds.

On September 15, 1896, three weeks after the attack of the Ottoman Bank by Armenian Dashnaks as a reaction to the Hamidian slaughters, Turkish specialists sorted out another slaughter in the city of Agin. Hassock troops murdered "upwards of 2000 Armenians" including "numerous ladies and youngsters" as per a report by the French Ambassador. Of the 1500 houses situated in the Armenian quarter of Agin, 980 were plundered and consumed. Agin was been the objective of the slaughter on the grounds that the pioneer of the bank striking gathering who was murdered toward the beginning of the attack, Papken Siuni, was local to the city of Agin. As indicated by a report by the British Consul at Harput, the affection used to assault the city's Armenian quarter was that the Armenians of the said city were "set to cause inconvenience".