Harutiun Shahrigian

Harutyun Shahrikyan
Native name Armenian: Յարութիւն Շահրիկեան (Ատոմ)
Birth name Harutyun Shahrikyan Mkrtichi
Nickname(s) Atom, Adom, Nitra
Born 1860
Shabin-Karahisar, Ottoman Empire
Died 1915 (aged 54–55)
Ankara Ottoman Empire
Allegiance Dashnaktsutyun
Years of service 1880–1915
Battles/wars Armenian national liberation movement
Khanasor Expedition
Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–07

Harutyun Shahrikyan (Armenian: Հարություն Մկրտիչի Շահրիկյան; 1860 – 1915) was an Armenian politician, soldier, lawyer, and author.

Better known by nicknames Adom, (Armenian: Ատոմ), Nitra (Armenian: Նիթրա), he had a prominent role in the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) and was also a member of the Armenian National Assembly, a lawyer and author of publications on the Armenian Question. He was a victim of the Armenian Genocide.

Biography

Harutyun Shahrikyan was born in 1860 in Shabin-Karahisar, Sivas Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire—today in Turkey's Giresun Province.[1]

Shahrikyan graduated from Galatasaray High School located in Constantinople.[2][3] He continued his studies at the University of Constantinople, graduating with a degree in law in 1880.[4][2]

He settled in Trabzon where he worked as a lawyer from 1889 to 1895.[4][2] During his career he defended Armenians imprisoned for political activity.[5]

He was imprisoned during the Hamidian massacres in 1895.[2] In 1897, after spending thirteen months in prison, he escaped and settled in Batumi, ultimately moving to Tbilisi.[1][6] There Shahrikyan continued his legal career, working in association with Alexander Mantashev.[1]

Harutyun Shahrikyan

On 25 July 1897, he left to Salmas, Persia in order to coordinate the Khanasor Expedition organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.[2]

He participated in a 16–26 January 1898 congress of ARF Eastern Bodies members in Tbilisi. There he served on the Potorig Committee from 1901 to 1903.[3] Shahrikyan and Avetik Sahakyan were responsible for ARF operations in the region of Baku (Voskanapat) and northern regions of Russia.[7]

"The future, then, lies not in fusion – assimilation – but in a policy of unity, or more correctly, in a policy of pluralistic unity. Erase variety in nature, in the universe, make the universe uniform, and you will have erased the beauty of nature, its harmony, its life. Variety in nature, which seems to put every element at odds with another, actually, through harmony, forms the greatness of the perpetual motion of the universe."

 —Harutyun Shahrikyan in Mer Havadke (English: Our Credo)[2]

From 1905 to 1906 he organized the transportation and delivery of ammunition to front line positions to assist in self-defense efforts during the Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–07.[2][8]

After the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 he moved to Constantinople where he participated in the Armenian National Assembly representing the district of Üsküdar.[1][6] He was also a contributor to the newspaper Azadamard.[1]

During the Armenian Genocide in 1915 he was deported to Ayaş, where he was tortured and ultimately killed in the outskirts of Ankara.[5][6][9]

Publications

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Walker, Christopher (1980). Armenia, the survival of a nation. Croom Helm. p. 383.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Habeshian, Vahe. Voices from the Past: Excerpts from Writings of Armenian Revolutionaries. Hairenik Association. ISBN 1940573092.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tasnapetean, Hrach (1990). History of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Dashnaktsutiun, 1890–1924. Oemme Edizioni. p. 207.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tuncay, Mete (1994). Socialism and nationalism in the Ottoman empire 1876–1923. London: British Academic Press. ISBN 1850437874.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Balakian, Grigoris (2010). Armenian Golgotha: a memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915–1918 (1st Vintage Books ed. ed.). New York: Vintage Books. p. 63. ISBN 1400096774.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Zarakolu, Ragip (24 July 2010). "Basın da geçmişine sansür uyguluyor" (in Turkish). Haber Ruzgari.
  7. ↑ [ISBN 99930-78-29-8]
  8. ↑ Kaligian, Dikran Mesrob (2011). Armenian organization and ideology under Ottoman rule, 1908–1914 (Rev. ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. p. 245. ISBN 1412848342.
  9. ↑ Kévorkian, Raymond H. (2010). The Armenian genocide : a complete history (Reprinted ed.). London: I. B. Tauris. p. 525. ISBN 1848855613.
  10. ↑ Fundamental Scientific Library National Academy of Sciences Republic of Armenia Our credo
  11. ↑ Fundamental Scientific Library National Academy of Sciences Republic of Armenia Мarriage Questions, legal and social character
  12. ↑ Fundamental Scientific Library National Academy of Sciences Republic of Armenia History of decline of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, since 1913
  13. ↑ Fundamental Scientific Library National Academy of Sciences Republic of Armenia Question of reforms
  14. ↑ Fundamental Scientific Library National Academy of Sciences Republic of Armenia National constitution

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