Karapet Pashayan (1864,

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...

– 1915) was an

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n physician, doctor and public activist. He finished the Medical College of Constantinople in 1888, then worked as a doctor in Balu and

Malatia Malatya ( hy, Մալաթիա, translit=Malat'ya; Syro-Aramaic ܡܠܝܛܝܢܐ Malīṭīná; ku, Meletî; Ancient Greek: Μελιτηνή) is a large city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey and the capital of Malatya Province. The city ha ...

provinces. In 1890 he was arrested for the support of Armenian fedayee groups, was sentenced to death but then released after the mediation of British consul's family. In 1895 he moved to

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and became the Persian shah's doctor. For his efforts he was awarded by the ''khan'' title. In 1903-1906 Pashayan lived in

Alexandria, Egypt Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...

, where he founded an Armenian school and a printing house. In 1908 after the Young Turk revolution he returned to

and was elected as a member of Ottoman parliament. In 1915 he was arrested among the other Armenian intellectuals and was sent to Ayash, where he was tortured and killed. Pashayan is an author of literary and scientific works ("The Friends of the People", 1909).

Sources

*The Doctors who became Victims of the Great Calamity, G. Karoyan, Boston, 1957, pp. 24–36 *"Armenian Question", encyclopedia, ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, p. 452 {{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Garabed Pashayan 1864 births Physicians from Istanbul Ethnic Armenian physicians People who died in the Armenian genocide Armenians from the Ottoman Empire Political people from the Ottoman Empire 1915 deaths