Hagop Terzian

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Hagop Terzian

Hagop Harutjuni Terzian ( Armenian Յակոբ Հարությունի Թերզեան , born August 22, 1879 in Hadjin ; † 1915 at Yozgat ) was an Armenian pharmacist and author in the Ottoman Empire . Most of his works deal with the Armenian heritage and life in Cilicia . He wrote an eyewitness account of the Adana massacre . The book was confiscated by the Ottoman authorities. The entire edition was republished by the Gomidas Institute in 2009 . During the genocide of the Armenians , Terzian was arrested on April 24, 1915 and finally murdered .

Life

Hagop Terzian was born in Hadjin near Adana in Cilicia in 1879 . The family soon moved to Adana, where Terzian attended the local Armenian school. In 1897 Terzian moved to Istanbul , where he completed a pharmacy degree in 1900. He then returned to his hometown and opened pharmacies in Saimbeyli and Adana. Terzian also became the correspondent of Armenian newspapers in the capital. In this activity Terzian used the pseudonyms Hagter , Davros , Hmayag and Hito, among others .

In 1909 Terzian witnessed and documented the Adana massacre . He decided to join the self-defense movement in the city's Armenian quarter and is considered one of its best-known members. Meanwhile, Terzian's pharmacy was ransacked. After losing his newborn son during the massacres and barely escaping death himself, he fled to Istanbul, where he opened a pharmacy in Kumkapı . In Istanbul Terzian published a book on life in Adana (1911) and his five-volume memoirs on the Cilician catastrophe (1912). These were confiscated by the authorities, but were saved.

The Cilician disaster received applause and positive criticism. The Catholicos of Cilicia , Sahag II , praised Terzian with the words:

“He made an indelible impression on everyone as a serious and trustworthy chronicler. It is a laborious, inquisitive and vivid picture of the great misfortune, brought in white light from the ruins and the ashes by a son of Cilicia, which will remain an eternal stain on the glorious civilization and the insatiable humanism of the 20th century. "

Archbishop Yeghische Tourian described the work in a letter to Terzian as follows:

“I have read your Giligio Aghedu [The Cilician Catastrophe] with great pain in my heart. It is not a red thread that runs through the white pages of your book, but a wide, black band that defies the bloody pages. "

Malachia Ormanian , the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople , wrote of Terzian's book that it was "the most perfect and perfect work" about the events in Adana.

assassination

Hagop Terzian was one of the Armenian intellectuals deported during the genocide . On April 24, 1915, he was arrested and taken by train to the inner provinces of the Ottoman Empire. He was first taken to Ayas and later to Çankırı , where he was detained.

Hagop Terzian was taken out of prison with other Armenians on August 19 and sent to Ankara , where he was imprisoned again. After four days, Terzian and the others were deported to Yozgat on August 24th . On the way there, Terzian was murdered along with the entire group.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Hrachik Simonyan: Destruction of Armenians in Cilicia, April 1909 . Ed .: Arzoumanian, Alexander. Gomidas Institute, London 2012, ISBN 1-903656-34-6 ( online [PDF]).
  2. ↑ a b c d Ragıp Zarakolu : Basın Da Geçmişine Sansür Uyguluyor. (No longer available online.) In: Haber Ruzgari. July 24, 2010, archived from the original on October 19, 2013 ; accessed on May 1, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haberruzgari.com
  3. ↑ Samuel Totten (Ed.): Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide . Transaction Publishers, 2014, ISBN 1-4128-5321-4 .
  4. ↑ a b c Gregory Ketabjian to offer a psychosocial analysis of the Adana massacres of 1909 . In: Armenian Reporter , March 7, 2009, p. 8. Retrieved May 1, 2014. 
  5. ^ A b Varoujan Der Simonian: Book Review: Cilicia 1909 - The Massacre of Armenians. In: Asbarez. November 6, 2009, accessed May 1, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Terzian, Hagop
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Terzian, Hagop Harutjuni (full name); Յակոբ Հարությունի Թերզեան (hyS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian pharmacist and author in the Ottoman Empire
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Saimbeyli
DATE OF DEATH 1915
Place of death at Yozgat