Armenak Yekarian, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Armenak Yekarian

Armenian revolutionary

Date of Birth: 10-May-1870

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1926

Profession: fedayeen

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Armenak Yekarian

  • Armenakis Yekarian (Armenian: ??????? ???????; 1870–1926) was an Armenian fedayee.
  • Yekarian was born in Van, Ottoman Empire.
  • He joined the Armenian national liberation movement through the ranks of the Armenakans in 1888.
  • His early education was at Varagavank monastery.
  • In 1896, during the defense of Van, he obtaining weapons from Persia to organize self-defense in the city.
  • He was imprisoned with 40 of his comrades and then released at the end of the conflict.
  • Thereafter, he left the Ottoman Empire as required by the Sultan.
  • He took refuge in Urmia in Persia.
  • After the deposition of the Sultan by the Young Turk Revolution, he returned to Van in 1908.
  • He joined the Van resistance in 1915.
  • After the Armenian victory, they set up an Armenian provisional government, with Aram Manukian at its head.
  • Armenak Yekarian became the police chief.
  • Aram Manoukian, Armenak Yekarian and others tried to give a national-civil character to the exclusively militarized administration.
  • In 1922, he emigrated with his family to Cairo, Egypt, where he died in 1926.
  • His family moved to Soviet Armenia in 1947.

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