[2] The Armenians had positioned themselves in a fort right outside the town where about 250 men fought off Turkish soldiers.

[4] News of the massacres in other regions of Western Armenia made the people of Shabin-Karahisar think that their "turn" was coming soon.

Then, 200 Armenian merchants were killed as a part of a systematic campaign of genocide by the Ottoman authorities.

[5] Shabin Karahisar (Şebinkarahisar) was the birthplace of Andranik Ozanian, a well-known Armenian fedayee.

The resistance at Shabin Karahisar was chronicled by Aram Haigaz, who survived the siege and subsequent deportation, in his book The Fall of the Airie.