Ramgavar Party

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Ramgavar Party

Foundation:

1885

Founders:

Mekertich Portukalian

Head:

Eddy Bahaderian

Ideology:

International alignment:

Colours:

Seats:

Website:

Party's Official Web Site

The Ramgavar party (before 1921 was Armenakan party) is an Armenian political party in Lebanon. The establishment was in Ottoman Empire by Mekertich Portukalian in Van in 1885. Armenakan was of the first parties that was established in the Ottoman Empire by Armenians.

1 History
- 1.1 Activities in the Ottoman Empire
- 1.2 Change of Name
2 Moden politics
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

Armenakan party was established in Van by Mekertich Portukalian in 1885 ^[1]. It was classified as a party based on the facts that they developed a platform, a central body, and an official publication.

The founder of the Armenakan party, Mekertich Portukalian later from Marseilles kept in touch with the leaders, and published a journal of political and social enlightenment, "The Armenia". Portukalian is also cited as brain father of Armenian Patriotic Society of Europe.

After Mekertich Portukalian, the Armenians of Van continued to develop the political principles behind Armenian nationalism, in a secrecy. The party's aim soon become to win for the Armenians the right to rule over themselves, through revolution'. Their view on how to liberate Armenia from the Ottoman Empire was through armed struggle. Their concept of revolution was distinctly low-keyed, compared with that of succeeding organisations; terror, agitation and militant demonstrations were viewed with disfavour. They wanted to use trained Armenians with arms, as guerrilla fighters, against the Ottoman Empire.

Their main misconception was that enemies of Ottoman Empire intervene and rescue the Armenian people throughout the period 1885–1918. With the turn of the century, Armenakans had cells outside Van, in other towns in the province, as well as in Trabzon and Istanbul. The military structure was developed in Russian Transcaucasia, in Persia and in the United States.

[edit] Activities in the Ottoman Empire

See also: Armenian rebellions in the Ottoman Empire

Bashkaleh Resistance: (May, 1889)
Defense of Van: (June, 1896)
Khanasor Expedition: (July 25, 1897)
Van Resistance: (April 19, 1915 - May 6, 1915)

[edit] Change of Name

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In 1921 the Armenakans, reformed Hunchaks, and Sahmanadir Ramgavars joined together to form the Ramgavar Party. The majority of the membership of the Armenakan Party was absorbed into the Ramgavar Party.

[edit] Moden politics

Ramgavar party has long been the smallest of the ethnic Armenian parties in Lebanon. It won its first-ever parliamentary seat in 2000, as Rafik Hariri's Dignity party.

The Ramgavar is considered the most ideologically moderate of Lebanon's Armenian parties. It has opposed what it sees as the right-wing policies of the Dashnak Party, for many years the largest Armenian group, while also avoiding adopting the leftist policies of the Social Democratic Hunchakian Party.

The current party leader is Eddy Bahaderian.