 The civil law gave the military an enforcing power only if there were parties opposing the implementation.The rules and regulations of the law, as published in the "Takvim-i Vekayi" (Ottoman official newspaper), were public and they were shared with all the political parties.The Tehcir Law was allegedly about 

One Ottoman Archival material, dated from July 12, 1915 suggests that massacres were part of those measures implemented against the Armenians.