Gabriel Kafian
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Gabriel Gerasimi Kafian (1861, Shushi, Nagorno-Karabakh - 1930, Tbilisi) was an Armenian political and public activist, one of the founders of Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.
He finished the Zurich University, in 1883 he participated in Second International. In 1887 among with Avetis Nazarbekian and others he founded the Hunchak (journal) and the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party, the first socialist party in Ottoman Empire and Middle East. In 1890 he moved to Constantinople, participated at Kum Kapu Affray, then worked in Arabkir, Sebastia, Agn and Kharberd. He tried to include Dersim Kurds in the anti-sultanic movement, but was arrested and then jailed from prison. He lived in Europe. He was arrested again and transferred to the Russia. In 1917 he participated in the February Revolution.
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- The Armenian Question, encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, p. 182.
