Garabed Pashajan

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Garabed Paschajan Khan ( Turkish Paşayan Karabet Efendi , Armenian Կարապետ Փաշաեան , * 1864 in Istanbul , Ottoman Empire ; died 1915 in Ayaş , Ankara ), also known under the pseudonym Taparig , was an Armenian doctor and Ottoman member of parliament who committed the genocide to the Armenians fell victim. As a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), he was also a member of the Armenian National Assembly in the Ottoman Empire.

Life

After Paschajan successfully completed the medical college in Istanbul, he worked as a doctor in the provinces around Palu and Malatya . In 1890 he was arrested for allegedly supporting Armenian fedayeen , sentenced to death, but released through the mediation of the British consul's family . In 1895 he moved to Persia and became the personal imperial physician of Nāser ad-Din Shah and Mozaffar ad-Din Shah . Because of his merits, he was given the title of Chan . Between 1903 and 1906 he lived in Alexandria , where he founded an Armenian school and a publishing house. After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, he returned from Egypt to Istanbul and became in the elections in 1912 as a representative of the city of Harput a member of the Ottoman parliament elected. He was a member of the editorial board of the Azadamard newspaper and a member of the Armenian Central Committee in Istanbul.

As a representative of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Taschnaken), Paschajan Khan declared publicly at an Ittihadist meeting with Talât Pascha and Hasan Fehmi that the ARF was against the war, as it only brought misery and privation; however, a fatherland should be defended against external aggressions.

death

In the course of the genocide of the Armenians from 1915 onwards, Pashaian Khan was arrested along with other Armenian intellectuals on "Red Sunday" on April 24, 1915. He was taken to Ayas and interned there. In the end, Garabed Pashajan was first tortured and then murdered. Members of Parliament Krikor Zohrab and Vartkes Seringülian had previously spoken to the responsible Ottoman Interior Minister Talât Pascha personally for the release of Pashayan, Zartarian and Aknuni (Zohrab and Seringülian were also later killed).

literature

  • The Doctors who became Victims of the Great Calamity. G. Karoyan, Boston, 1957, pp. 24-36.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Grigoris Balakian : Armenian Golgotha. A memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915-1918 . 1st Vintage Books ed. Vintage Books, New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-4000-9677-0 , pp. 63 : "Dr. Garabed Pashaian: former member to Ottoman parliament, representative in the National Assembly, Dashnak worker, martyred in Ankara. "
  2. ↑ KARAPET PASHAYAN / ԿԱՐԱՊԵՏ ՓԱՇԱՅԱՆ
  3. ^ Raymond H. Kévorkian : The Armenian genocide: a complete history . IB Tauris, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-84885-561-8 , pp. 135-136 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed May 17, 2013]).
  4. ^ Raymond H. Kévorkian: The Armenian genocide: a complete history . IB Tauris, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-84885-561-8 , pp. 525 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed May 17, 2013]).
  5. ^ Raymond H. Kévorkian: The Armenian genocide: a complete history . IB Tauris, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-84885-561-8 , pp. 251-252 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed May 17, 2013]).
personal data
SURNAME Pashajan, Garabed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paşayan Effendi, Karabet (Turkish); Paschaian, Garabed; Pashaian, Garabed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian doctor and Ottoman member of parliament
DATE OF BIRTH 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1915
Place of death Ayas , Ankara