Mkrtich Avetisi Avetisian ( hy, Մկրտիչ Ավետիսյան, ''Terlemezian'', 1864 in
Van – 1896 in Van) was an
Armenia
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n journalist and political figure, one of the founders of
Armenakan organization.
He studied in
Van, then became a student of
Mekertich Portukalian
Mekertich Portukalian ( hy, Մկրտիչ Փորթուգալեան; October 21, 1848 – October 1921) was an Armenian teacher and journalist who founded the first Armenian political party, the Armenakan Party, in Van in 1885.
The son of a banke ...
. In this period he participated to "Black Cross" liberational organization, founded the Armenian Patriotic Union, then headed Armenakan organization in Van. In 1886, he was deported by the Turkish authorities, lived in
Tripoli and
Marseille
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, contributed to "Armenia" newspaper. In 1893-1896 he was the common revisor of Armenian schools in
Persia
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, in 1896 during the
Hamidian massacres he headed the Van resistance and was killed by Turkish soldiers.
Sources
*Concise Armenian Encyclopedia, ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian, Vol. 1, Yerevan, 1990, pp. 310–311.
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1864 births
1896 deaths
Armenian nationalists
People from Van, Turkey
Armenians from the Ottoman Empire
Armenian journalists
Armenian Democratic Liberal Party politicians
19th-century journalists
Male journalists
Armenian male writers
19th-century male writers