Haftevan

Haftevan (, ) is a village in Zulachay Rural District, in the Central District of Salmas County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 6,313, in 1,216 families. Its population is made up of Azeris and an Armenian minority of a few hundred.
In early 1915, the village was occupied by Ottoman forces, who required local Christians to register for food rations. Instead, 700 family heads were executed in the village on the orders of Djevdet Bey. Russian army commander K. Matikyan reported seeing "with my own eyes hundreds of mangled corpses in pits, stinking from infection, lying in the open. I saw headless corpses, chopped off by axes, hands, legs, piles of heads, corpses crushed under rocks from fallen walls". According to historian David Gaunt, "This was where the Turkish soldiers learned to execute unarmed noncombatant Christians", leading to the Armenian genocide and Assyrian genocide.