Zeytun Ilıcası [ Zeytouni Djermouq ]

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Zeytun Ilıcası [ Zeytoun ilidjasi or WarmSprings of Zeytoun ] or Zeytouni Djermouq [ in Armenian Զէյթունի Ջերմուկը ] was an ancient Armenian settlement in Cilicia ( South Central Turkey ) since the late 11th century AD and just 3 Km E of Zeytoun mountaintown; this mountainous plateau contains several mineral hot springs, famous for their therapeutic healing effects on those who suffer from arthritis, joint pain and rheumatism. It was home to an ancient Armenian Apostolic Christian Vank (monastery) named Saint Saviour or Sourp Purgitch [ Սուրբ Փրկիչ Վանք ] built in the 13th century, damaged and renovated many times over until its final razing and destruction by the Turks both in the uprising of 1895-1896 and after April 1915. After May1915, the entire Armenian Ottoman citizens of the Zeytoun district were subjected to mass arrests and incarceration without evident reasons, followed by the total forced deportation of the christian Armenian population of the Zeytoun Nahiye (County) totaling 17,000 men, women and children - some into the desert swamps of Sultaniye/Karapunar area in Konya Vilayeti, while the majority forcibly marched on foot with no food or water to the scorching deserts of Syria ( Meskene, Ras-ul-Ayn, Raqqa and last to Deir-ul-Zor ) where in total 14,600 Armenians were either raped, massacred, starved to death or perished because of epidemic contagious diseases. This was the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1918 planned and premeditated by the Turkish İttihad-ve-Terakki freemason ruling party bosses mass-murderers Talaat "pasha", Enver "pasha" and Cemal "pasha" along with the bloodthirsty mass-murderer Baha'eddin Shakir, the head of the Ottoman Security Service " Teşkilat-ı-Mahsusa" of the dying Ottoman Turkish empire of World War I and perpetrated by the Teşkilat-ı-Mahsusa footsoldiers, the Turkish population, Kurds and Cherkes hordes and criminals set loose from prisons along with Turkish Jandarma and government representatives throughout Anatolia which is the Asian side of Turkey. Today there is no sign or traces left of the 9-century long Armenian presence in this area because of Turkey's policy of wiping out all cultural, religious and historic vestiges of the Armenian people from Anatolia since 1915 and continuing now in the 21-st century....