Bedros Kapamajian
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Bedros Kapamajian was born on 1840 and assassinated in 1912. Kapamajian was an Ottoman citizen of Armenian origin who was elected mayor of Van, Turkey.[1] With the Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire, Bedros Kapamajian was elected the mayor of Van on February 2, 1908.[2] Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Tashnaks) labeled Kapamajian as a puppet of the Ottoman Government.[3] He was perceived standing against the Armenian national movement, by/or/because ARF felt he was too loyal to the "Ottoman central".[4] Bedros Kapamajian was assassinated on 1912.[5] He was assassinated by his own son, member of ARF from Van, because of not supporting the ARF.[6]
For the initiation of the national goal, Armenian Revolutionary Federation was organizing an uprising to initiate the European intervention, which solidified in the Cyprus Convention and then the Treaty of Berlin, 1878 with the article 61. As a result of this plan, a series of fires were plotted in the city of Van. There was no Armenian life lost even though houses of the Armenians were burned down. The Patriarch wanted Bedros Kapamajian to ask protectorates stating that the fires were caused by the Muslim people and that they were getting ready to kill the Christian Armenians. Kapamajian sent a report to the capital telling that the matter was not so and the fires were started by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation committees. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation decided to execute the major.
Ottoman Police arrested Viramyan, one of the writers of Azadamart (Armenian Revolutionary Federation newspaper), Aram Manougian, representative of the committee who will become "Aram of Van" and some of the members were also arrested for the murder.
[edit] References
- ^ By Y. G. Çark, (1953), "Armenians working for the Ottoman Empire between 1453-1953 (tr:Türk devleti hizmetinde Ermeniler, 1453-1953) 302 pages.
- ^ BOA İrade Taltifat, 1325. Za/111.
- ^ By Altan Deliorman, "Türklere Karsi Ermeni Komitecileri" Published 1973 Boğaziçi Basım ve Yayınevi 335 pages
- ^ Justin McCarthy, The Armenian Rebellion at Van, University of Utah Press (September 29, 2006) ISBN-13: 978-0874808704
- ^ Hasan Oktay, the assassinated Ottoman governors (tr:"Valiler Eskiden de Hedefti"), published in Tarih ve Medeniyet, Istanbul 1999, volume 62, pp. 60-63.
- ^ Hüseyin Çelik, ‘The 1915 Armenian Revolt in Van: Eyewitness Testimony’,in The Armenians in the Late Ottoman Period, pp. 91-92.
