Vartke's Serengülian

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Vartke's Serengülian

Vartkes Hovhannes Serengülian ( Armenian Վարդգէս Յովհաննէս Սէրէնկիւլեան ; * 1871 in Erzurum , Vilâyet Erzurum ; † 1915 in Urfa ), also known as Gisak for short , was an Armenian teacher, political-social activist and member of the Ottoman parliament who committed the genocide of the Armenians fell victim.

He studied at the Ardzinian College and at the Sanasarian College in Erzurum. In the late 1880s he organized demonstrations in Erzurum and was arrested. After he was released in 1892, he first worked in Istanbul and then became a revolutionary activist in Bulgaria and the Russian Empire . In Van , Serengülian supported Hrayr Dzhoghk's ideas and cooperated with the Armenakan party . He was arrested in Van and sentenced to 101 years in prison in 1901. After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, he was released and elected a member of the Ottoman Parliament as a representative of Erzurum.

On May 12, 1915, Serengülian had visited the Minister of the Interior, Talât Pascha , with whom he had been friends for a decade. He wanted to protest against the arrest of numerous intellectuals on April 24th, but Talat Pasha declared that this was a matter of the homeland and that friendships or relationships could not do anything. At the end of May, Serengülian was arrested together with Krikor Zohrab himself to appear before a military court in Diyarbekir . They were deported first to Adana and then to Aleppo , where Cemal Pasha was asked to spare them. Cemal turned to Talât, but he refused. The governor of Aleppo, Mehmed Celal Bey , was removed from office because he had stood up for the two exiles. On the orders of Mehmed Reschid , governor of Diyarbekir, Serengülian was shot dead by Cherkes Ahmed near Urfa. The German journalist Von Tyszka assumed that Serengülian was "at least in good health", but had not arrived in Diyarbekir. The government later stated that Serengülian had committed suicide.

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  • "Armenian Question", encyclopedia, ed. By acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, p. 414
  • Serenkyulyan

Individual evidence

  1. Remember. Armenian Genocide Museum , accessed May 17, 2013 .
  2. ^ Uğur Ümit Üngör : The making of modern Turkey: nation and state in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 . Ed .: Oxford University Press. Oxford, ISBN 978-0-19-965522-9 , pp. 84 ( online ).
  3. Grigoris Balakian : Armenian Golgotha: a memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915-1918 . Ed .: Vintage Books. 1st Vintage Books edition. New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-4000-9677-0 , pp. 103 ff., 245 .