Hampartsum Boyadjian

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Hampartsum Boyadjian

Hampartsum Boyajian ( Armenian Համբարձում Պօյաճեան Hambardzowm Pohachean ; * 1867 in Xaçin , Cilicia , Ottoman Empire ; † August 24, 1915 in Kayseri , Vilâyet Ankara ), also known under his nom de guerre Murad or Medz Murad ("Murad the Great"), was an Armenian fedai and a leading Ottoman politician of the Huntschak party .

biography

His older brother was the Huntschakist leader Medzn Girayr . Murad himself joined the Huntschak party when he was a medical student in Constantinople . In 1890 he took part in the Kumkapı demonstration . In 1894 he was a leader of the Sason Resistance . He warned the citizens of Sasun to fight to the last drop of blood in defense of their mountains and houses. He was arrested and tortured by Turkish authorities, and in 1896 Murad was exiled to Tripoli . During his exile, the party convention of the Social Democratic Huntingchakists elected Murad as a member of their central committee. Murad was one of the most popular figures in the Armenian Liberation Movement, and several revolutionary groups campaigned for his release. In 1906 he escaped from prison and returned to Constantinople in 1908. He was then elected a member of the Ottoman Parliament for the Adana region .

Murad, like thousands of others, was declared undesirable by the Young Turk government on April 24, 1915 . He was among the first to be arrested while deporting the Armenian elite . At the beginning of the Armenian genocide , he was severely tortured in prison. After a trial in July, he was hanged on August 24, 1915 with twelve of his friends in Kayseri.

From 1992 to 1994 a Medzn-Mourad battalion led by Gevorg Guzelian took part in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Raymond H. Kévorkian : The Armenian Genocide . London 2011, p. 32 .
personal data
SURNAME Boyadjian, Hampartsum
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Medzn Murad; Murad; Boyadjian, Hampartsoum; Boyajian, Hampartsum
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman MP
DATE OF BIRTH 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Saimbeyli , Cilicia , Vilayet Adana
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1915
Place of death Kayseri near Ankara , Ottoman Empire