Parsegh Shahbaz

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Parsegh Shahbaz

Parsegh Schahbaz (born June 1883 in Boyacıköy , Istanbul ; † 1915 in Harput , Ottoman Empire ) was an Ottoman- Armenian lawyer, journalist, political activist and columnist. He was a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation . During the Armenian Genocide , Shahbaz was deported to Çankırı and then to Harput, where he was killed.

Life

Parsegh Shahbaz was born in June 1883 in the Boyacıköy district of Istanbul . He received his education in Istanbul at the Armenian schools of Mayr Varjaran, Getronagan and Mkhitarian. He continued his education in Venice at San Lazzaro degli Armeni . During his time in Italy , Shahbaz met Avedis Aharonian , who convinced him to join the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF). Shahbaz returned to Istanbul, where he published the newspaper Tsaghig (Armenian for flower). In 1903, after the attempted assassination of the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople , Malachia Ormanian , members of the ARF were accused and Shahbaz fled to Alexandria . In Egypt , Shahbaz worked for various Armenian magazines and newspapers for five years, including Azad Khosk , Grag , the Mdrag monthly magazine and Hachyun . After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, Shahbaz returned to Anatolia, where he continued his political activities. He then went to Bulgaria and back to Egypt, where he married in 1912. He later moved to Paris to continue his law studies. In Paris he contributed to magazines such as Mikayel Varandians Pro Armenia and newspapers such as Horizon and Hayrenik .

In August 1914, after the beginning of World War I , Shahbaz returned to Istanbul at the request of Victor Bérard to collect support for the war efforts of the Triple Entente from members of the ARF.

death

On “Red Sunday” , April 24, 1915, Parsegh Shahbaz was arrested in Istanbul with other intellectuals and deported to Ayas together with a group of Armenian intellectuals . He was deported to Mamuretülaziz . It is believed that Shahbaz was killed on the way from Harput to Malatya . In a letter to Zaruhi Bahri and Evgine Khachigian on July 6, 1915, Shahbaz wrote from Antep that because of his wounded feet and stomach pain he would stay six to seven days before continuing his eight to ten day march to Mamuretülaziz. But he had no idea why he was sent there. According to B. Vahe-Haig, a survivor of the Harput massacres, Parsegh Shahbaz was held in Mezre Central Prison eight days after the massacre. He remained there for a week without food and was severely ill-treated until he was eventually killed by members of the Jandarma .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harutiun Mekeryan: Mikayel S. Giurjian: his life and work . Mayreni, Monterey, CA 2005, ISBN 1-931834-12-1 , pp. 126 .
  2. ^ Raymond H. Kévorkian : The Armenian genocide: a complete history . Reprinted. IB Tauris, London 2010, ISBN 1-84885-561-3 , pp. 176 .
  3. ^ Yervant Odian : Accursed years: my exile and return from Der Zor, 1914-1919 . Gomidas Institute, London 2009, ISBN 1-903656-84-2 , pp. 14 .
  4. ↑ a b What Happened on April 24, 1915? The Ayash Prisoners. Gomidas Institute, accessed March 2, 2014 .
  5. ^ Levon A. Saryan: The Arrest and Incarceration of the Armenian Intellectuals at Ayash: April 24, 1915 - July 25, 1915 . In: The Armenian Review . 28, No. 2, summer 1975, ISSN  0004-2366 , p. 134.
  6. ↑ Khachig Boghosian: My Arrest and Exile on April 24, 1915 . In: Armenian Reporter , April 21, 2001. 
  7. ↑ Grigoris Balakian : Armenian Golgotha: a memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915-1918 . 1st Vintage Books edition. Vintage Books, New York 2010, ISBN 1-4000-9677-4 , pp. 63 ( here in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Shahbaz, Parsegh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman-Armenian lawyer, journalist, political activist and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Boyacıköy , Istanbul
DATE OF DEATH 1915
Place of death Harput , Ottoman Empire