 According to an Armenian he interviewed years later for his book (who was unaware of the Turkish version), an Armenian "rakiji" (that is, a person who prepares the popular alcoholic drink rakı) was serving several Armenian legionnaires with his drink when one of them, who was intoxicated after drinking one cup too many, approached a Muslim woman exiting the bath and removed her veil.An altercation followed and an unknown assailant shot and killed one of the legionnaires, but incidentally not the offending one.In memory of this incident, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University is named after Sütçü İmam in 1992.