Suçluya Saygi: Mehmet Cemal Azmi Bey. Soykirima Karsi Uluslarasi Analyis Dernegi, abgerufen am 1. Juli 2013 (türkisch): „Ermeni çocuklarına uyguladığı vahşet nedeniyle ‘Trabzon Celladı’ diye de anılmaktadır.“
Suçluya saygi: Mehmet Cemal Azmi Bey. STCG, abgerufen am 14. Februar 2013 (türkisch): „Ölümünden önce, Türk kimliği altında kendi oğluyla arkadaş olan genç bir Ermeniye övünerek şunları anlattığı bilinmektedir: "En güzel Ermeni kızlarından 10 ila 13 yaş arası olanları kendime ayırdım ve o zaman 14 yaşında olan oğluma hediye ettim. Diğerlerini denizde boğdurdum."“
Omer Bartov, Phyllis Mack: In God’s Name: Genocide and religion in the twentieth century. Berghahn Books, New York 2001, ISBN 978-1-57181-214-8 (eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche).
Huberta Lean von Voss: Portraits of Hope: Armenians in the contemporary world. 1st English ed. Berghahn Books, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-84545-257-5, S.296 (eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche [abgerufen am 15. Februar 2013] Avengers Arshavir Shirakian (1900–73) and Aram Yerkanian (1898–1934) executed Cemal Azmi, who, as the former governor general of Trebzon was the ‘butcher’ of the province.).
Jacques Derogy: Resistance and Revenge: The Armenian assassination of Turkish leaders responsible for the 1915 massacres and deportations. Transaction Publishers, 1990, ISBN 1-4128-3316-7, S.74 (eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche [abgerufen am 15. Februar 2013] Oriental carpet shop that was opened in the town center by the butcher of Trebizond, Jemal Azmi.).
Gérard Chaliand: The History of Terrorism from Antiquity to al Qaeda. Nachdruck Auflage. University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. u. a. 2010, ISBN 978-0-520-24709-3, S.195 (eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche – One of the organizers of the genocide, and Jemal Azmi, “the butcher of Trebizond.”).