Ahmet Faik Erner

Ahmet Faik Erner (1880–1967

As an Ottoman bureaucrat With the support of another member of the Ottoman Triumvirate, Djemal Pasha, he was assigned to the post of the Commander of the Gendarmerie Regiment of Baghdad. In Aintab, he was put in charge of the deportations of the Christian Orthodox Armenian population. On the orders of Talaat Pasha, he facilitated their deportation and also expanded the deportations to the Catholics and Protestants. In 1915 and 1916, he facilitated their deportations in a more efficient way and deployed labor battalions to the construction of the Baghdad - Railway in Rajo. It was also during his tenure as Governor of Aintab that the final destination of the deportations became the eastern, Dear Ez Zoor and not as before, Hawran in the south of Damascus. He was one of the main and also strictest organizers of the deportations, an adherent to the idea of a complete removal of the Armenian population from Aintab. This caused him to file a report against the member of the Ottoman Parliament and CUP chief of Aintab Ali Cenani, who despite being also in favor of the deportations, at times also made exceptions for Armenian notables. Following the culmination of the deportations to the satisfaction of the Ottoman Government, he was appointed the director general of the police corps of Istanbul in May 1916, a post he held until 1918. He also served as the honorary consul of Turkey to Argentina in Buenos Aires. Following some encounters with the local Armenian community and the fact that his tobacco business again did not succeed he decided to return to Turkey. Upon his arrival in Turkey, his former classmate Mustafa Kemal (at the time President of Turkey), learned of his situation and made arrangements for his regular retirement. In 1940, he received a leading position at a Turkish weapons factory of Škoda.

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