Sarkis Minassian

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Sarkis Minassian ( Armenian Սարգիս Մինասեան , * 1873 in Çengiler near Yalova ; † 1915 in Ankara , Ottoman Empire ), also Aram Ashod , was an Armenian journalist, teacher and political activist. He was the editor-in-chief of Hairenik newspaper in Watertown , Massachusetts . After returning to the Ottoman Empire in 1909, Minassian continued his work for various magazines in Istanbul . In 1915 he was killed in the Armenian genocide .

Life

Sarkis Minassian was born in 1873 in the village of Çengiler, near Yalova . He attended elementary school in Bahçecik , Kocaeli . Then the family moved to Istanbul . After Minassian graduated from Getronagan High School in 1894 , he moved to Geneva , where he worked for the Armenian newspaper Troshag , the official organ of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation . In 1903 Minassian went to the United States , where he worked in an executive position for the Armenian newspaper Hairenik . In 1905 he returned to Geneva. After the Young Turkish Revolution in 1908, he returned to Istanbul in 1909. Minassian worked briefly as a teacher in Istanbul. He became a member of the Armenian National Assembly , where he represented the Kasımpaşa District. Minassian was one of the leading columnists for the Azadamard newspaper . He gave lectures on the Armenian language in various Armenian schools across Istanbul.

Sarkis Minassian planned a French-Armenian dictionary. However, because of his genocide death, the dictionary was never published and ended up in the possession of his mother, who was living in Geneva at the time. However, Minassian published an extensive biography about the life of the Armenian revolutionary Serob Aghbjur .

death

On "Red Sunday" , April 24, 1915, Minassian was arrested at night and sent by train to Ayas , a town in the inner provinces of the Ottoman Empire. First concentrated in a prison in Ayaş, Minassian was deported to Diyarbekir on June 2, 1915, together with Rupen Zartarian , Karekin Khajag , Chatschatur Malumian , Harutiun Jangülian and Nazaret Daghavarian . You were supposed to appear before a military court in Diyarbekir. However, Minassian and everyone else were killed halfway in the village of Karacaören between Urfa and Siverek . The order to kill was given by Captain Şevket to Hacı Onbaşı, a member of the special organization .

literature

• Grigoris Balakian : Armenian Golgotha: a memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915-1918 . Ed .: Peter Balakian and Aris Sevag. 1. Vintage Books ed. Vintage Books, New York 2010, ISBN 1-4000-9677-4 ( here in the Google book search).
• Raymond H. Kevorkian : The Armenian genocide: a complete history . Reprinted. IB Tauris, London 2010, ISBN 1-84885-561-3 ( here in the Google book search).
• Yervant Odian : Accursed years: my exile and return from Der Zor, 1914-1919 . Ed .: Krikor Beledian. Gomidas Institute, London 2009, ISBN 1-903656-84-2 ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} The 80th of the Hairenik Daily: An Editorial Introduction . In: Hairenik Association (ed.): The Armenian Review . 32, No. 1, 1979, ISSN  0004-2366 , p. 5.
2. ^ Zaven der Yeghiayan , commented by Vatché Ghazarian: My patriarchal memoirs . Ed .: Ared Misirliyan. Mayreni publ., Barrington (RI) 2002, ISBN 978-1-931834-05-6 , pp. 49 .
3. ↑ Ara Sarafian: What Happened on April 24, 1915? The Ayash Prisoners. Gomidas Institute, April 22, 2013, accessed March 1, 2014 .