Hampartsoum Boyadjian ( hy, Համբարձում Պօյաճեան) (14 May 1860 – 30 July 1915), also known by his ''
noms de guerre
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'' Murad and sometimes Medzn Murad ( hy, Մեծն Մուրատ, "Mourad the Great"), was an
Armenian
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''
fedayi'' and a leading political activist of the
Hunchak
The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) ( hy, Սոցիալ Դեմոկրատ Հնչակյան Կուսակցություն; ՍԴՀԿ, translit=Sots’ial Demokrat Hnch’akyan Kusakts’ut’yun), is the oldest continuously-operating Armenian ...
party.
Biography
He was born in
Hadjin
Saimbeyli, alternatively known as Hadjin ( hy, Հաճըն, translit=Hajěn), is a township and a district in the Adana Province, Turkey. The township is located at the Taurus mountains of Cilicia region, 157 km north of the city of Adana. The dist ...
in the region of
Cilicia
Cilicia (); el, Κιλικία, ''Kilikía''; Middle Persian: ''klkyʾy'' (''Klikiyā''); Parthian: ''kylkyʾ'' (''Kilikiyā''); tr, Kilikya). is a geographical region in southern Anatolia in Turkey, extending inland from the northeastern coa ...
. The
Hunchakian leader
Medzn Girayr (Harutiun-Mardiros Boyadjian) was his senior brother.
Murad joined the
Hunchakian party when he was a medical student in
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 (" ...
. In 1890, he took part in the
Kum Kapu demonstration
The Kum Kapu demonstration occurred in the Kumkapı district of Constantinople on July 27, 1890. It ensued in skirmishing in which several demonstrators and four police officers were killed. The intent of the demonstration was "..to awaken the m ...
. In 1894, he was a leader of the
Sasun Resistance. He exhorted the inhabitants of Sasun to fight to their last drop of blood to defend their mountains and houses. Turkish authorities imprisoned and tortured him, and in 1896 Murad was exiled to
Tripoli
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* Tripolis (region of Arcadia), a district in ancient Arcadia, Greece
* Tripolis (Larisaia), an ancient Greek city in ...
. During his exile the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party convention elected Mourad as a member of its Central Committee. Murad was one of the most popular figures of the Armenian liberation movement, and several revolutionary groups worked towards his liberation. In 1906 he escaped from prison and in 1908 he returned to Constantinople. In the
1908 Ottoman general election
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, he was elected a member of the
Ottoman parliament
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representing
Kozan (Sis) in the
Adana Vilayet; he was one of 10 Armenian deputies in the new parliament.
Murad, a Hunchakian who never gave up on the dream of a united and independent Armenia was labelled, like thousands of others, an undesirable by the
Young Turk Government. He was among the first to be arrested on 24 April 1915 (known as
Red Sunday
The deportation of Armenian intellectuals is conventionally held to mark the beginning of the Armenian genocide. Leaders of the Armenian community in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (now Istanbul), and later other locations, were arreste ...
), on the eve of the
Armenian genocide
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was ...
, and sent to
Kayseri
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, where he was severely tortured in prison. After a trial in July, he was hanged on 30 July 1915, with 12 of his friends.
From 1992 to 1994, a battalion named after Medzn Murad led by Gevorg Guzelian took part in the
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
The First Nagorno-Karabakh War, referred to in Armenia as the Artsakh Liberation War ( hy, Արցախյան ազատամարտ, Artsakhyan azatamart) was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in th ...
.
See also
*
Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915
The deportation of Armenian intellectuals is conventionally held to mark the beginning of the Armenian genocide. Leaders of the Armenian community in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (now Istanbul), and later other locations, were arreste ...
*
Sebastatsi Murad
Murad of Sebastia ( hy, Սեբաստացի Մուրատ, ''Sebastatsi Murad''; Murad of Sebastia; Murad Khrimian; Murad Hagopian; 1874 — 4 August 1918) was a well-known Armenian fedayee during the Armenian national liberation movement in the O ...
Notes
Bibliography
*
*''Metsn Murat (Hambardzum Pōyachean): Keankʻn u gortsunēutʻiwně'', by Sirvard,
Providence
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* Divine providence, divinely ordained events and outcomes in Christianity
* Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of Rhode Island in the ...
, 1955.
*Medzn Mourat, by
Yeghia Jerejian
Yeghia (Yeghig) Jerejian ( hy, Տոքթ. Եղիկ Ճէրէճեան, born in 1957, in Beiruth) is a Lebanese-Armenian author and political figure, Social Democrat Hunchakian Party Central Committee Member (since 1995). From 1992 to 2009 (for four t ...
, 2016, 248 pages,
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Hampartsoum Boyadjian
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boyadjian, Hampartsoum
1867 births
1915 deaths
People from Saimbeyli
People from Adana vilayet
Armenian fedayi
Armenian nationalists
Political people from the Ottoman Empire
Deputies of Adana
Prisoners and detainees of the Ottoman Empire
People who died in the Armenian genocide
Armenians from the Ottoman Empire