Armenakis Yekarian ( hy, Արմենակ Եկարյան; 1870–1926) was an
Armenia
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fedayee''.
[Chrıstopher Walker, Armenia:The Survival of a National, page:205] Yekarian was born in
Van
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,
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
. He joined the
Armenian national liberation movement
The Armenian national movement ( hy, Հայ ազգային-ազատագրական շարժում ''Hay azgayin-azatagrakan sharzhum'') included social, cultural, but primarily political and military movements that reached their height during Worl ...
through the ranks of the
Armenakans in 1888. His early education was at
Varagavank
Varagavank ( hy, Վարագավանք, "Monastery of Varag"; tr, Yedi Kilise, "Seven Churches") was an Armenian monastery on the slopes of Mount Erek, southeast of the city of Van, in eastern Turkey.
The monastery was founded in the early 11 ...
monastery. In 1896, during the
defense of Van, he obtaining weapons from
Persia
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
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
Urmia or Orumiyeh ( fa, ارومیه, Variously transliterated as ''Oroumieh'', ''Oroumiyeh'', ''Orūmīyeh'' and ''Urūmiyeh''.) is the largest city in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran and the capital of Urmia County. It is situated at an alt ...
in Persia. After the deposition of the Sultan by the
Young Turk Revolution
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, he returned to Van in 1908. He joined the
Van resistance in 1915. After the Armenian victory, they set up an
Armenian provisional government
The occupation of Western Armenia by the Russian Empire during World War I began in 1915 and was formally ended by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. It was sometimes referred to as the Republic of Van by Armenians. Aram Manukian of Armenian Revolutio ...
, with
Aram Manukian
Aram Manukian, reformed spelling: Արամ Մանուկյան, and he is also referred to as simply Aram. (19 March 187929 January 1919), was an Armenian revolutionary, statesman, and a leading member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ...
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
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,
Egypt
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, where he died in 1926. His family moved to
Soviet Armenia
The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,; russian: Армянская Советская Социалистическая Республика, translit=Armyanskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) also commonly referred to as Soviet A ...
in 1947.
Further reading
* L. Adjemian: ''Husher Armenak Yekariani'', Cairo 1947,
emoirs of Armenak Yekarian
Notes
External links
Arménak Yekarian, hero of Van (French)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yekarian, Armenak
1870 births
1926 deaths
People from Van, Turkey
Armenian fedayi
Armenian nationalists
Armenian people of World War I
Armenian revolutionaries
Prisoners and detainees of the Ottoman Empire
Armenian genocide survivors
Armenian Democratic Liberal Party politicians
Armenians from the Ottoman Empire
Armenian expatriates in Iran