Harutiun Shahrigian

Harutiun Shahrigian

Harutiun Schahrigian ( Turkish Harutün Şahrigyan , Armenian Հարություն Մկրտիչի Շահրիկյան ; * 1860 in Schabin-Karahisar , Ottoman Empire , † 1915 in Ankara ) was an Armenian lawyer, writer and politician. Better known by his nicknames Adom / Atom ( Ատոմ ) or Nitra ( Նիթրա ), he played an important role within the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) and was a member of the Armenian National Assembly and author of numerous publications on the Armenian question. He fell victim to the Armenian genocide .

Life

Harutiun Schahrigian was born in 1860 in Schabin-Karahisar in the Ottoman Vilâyet Sivas , today in the Turkish province of Giresun . Shahrigian graduated from Galatasaray High School in Istanbul . He continued his studies at Darülfünun , the University of Istanbul, and graduated in 1880 with a doctorate in law.

He later settled in Trabzon , where he worked as a lawyer from 1889 to 1895. During his career he defended Armenians who were imprisoned for political activity under the "Sultan" Abdülhamid II . During the massacre of the Armenians in 1894-1896 he was imprisoned in 1895 himself. In 1897 he fled after 13 months in prison and settled first in Batumi and later in Tbilisi . There he continued his legal career and worked with Alexander Mantashev . On July 25, 1897, he went to Salmas , Persia , to coordinate the Chanasor expedition organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation . Schahrigian took part in the congress of the ARF bodies for Eastern Armenia in Tbilisi from January 16 to 26, 1898 . There he served in the so-called Potorig Committee from 1901 to 1903 .

Shahrigian and Avetik Sahakjan were responsible for the ARF's operations in the Baku region (Voskanapat) and the northern regions ( Russia ). From 1905 to 1906 he organized the transport and delivery of weapons to the front in order to secure the defense of the Armenians during the clashes with the Tatars in 1905–1907 in the Caucasus.

After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, he moved to Istanbul, where he participated in the Armenian National Assembly and represented the Üsküdar district. He also contributed to the Azadamard newspaper . During the genocide of the Armenians from 1915 onwards, he was deported to Ayas , where he was tortured and finally murdered in the Ankara area.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Christopher Walker: Armenia, the survival of a nation . Croom Helm, 1980, p. 383 ( here in the Google book search).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hrach Tasnapetean: History of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Dashnaktsutiun, 1890-1924 . Oemme Edizioni, 1990, p. 207 ( online [PDF]). online ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Grigoris Balakian : Armenian Golgotha: a memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915-1918 . 1. Vintage Books ed. Vintage Books, New York 2010, ISBN 1-4000-9677-4 , pp. 63 ( here in the Google book search).
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Ragıp Zarakolu : Basın da geçmişine sansür uyguluyor. In: Haber Ruzgari. July 4, 2010, archived from the original on October 19, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2014 (Turkish). 
5. ↑ Dikran Kaligian Mesrob: Armenian organization and ideology under Ottoman rule, 1908-1914 . Rev. edition. Transaction, New Brunswick, NJ 2011, ISBN 1-4128-4834-2 , pp. 245 ( here in the Google book search).
6. ^ Raymond H. Kévorkian : The Armenian genocide: a complete history . Reprinted. IB Tauris, London 2010, ISBN 1-84885-561-3 , pp. 525 ( here in the Google book search).