Armenian notables deported from the Ottoman capital in 1916
In the larger framework of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire Armenian community leaders all over the country were arrested.
List of Armenians deported
[edit]Below is a list of Armenians deported from the Ottoman capital (İstanbul) in 1916 as made available by Armenian sources. The names are in English and Armenian.
| Name | Birth | Fate | Affiliation | Profession | Date of arrest & exile |
1st place of deportation | Notes on fate |
| Mkrtich Bishop Aghavnouni Մկրտիչ Եպսկ. Աղաւնունի |
b. July 1863 in Bardizag | Survivor | Clergyman | 24 October 1916 | Jerusalem | XXXXXXX | |
| Dz. Vartabed Yeznik Babayan Ծ. վարդ. Եզնիկ Պապաեան |
b. 11 December 1862 in Üsküdar | Clergyman | 24 October 1916 | Jerusalem | XXXXXXX | ||
| Daniel Archbishop Hagopian Դանիել Արքեպսկ. Յակոբեան |
b. 2 September 1865 in Kadıköy | Survivor | Clergyman | 14 October 1916 | Jerusalem | XXXXXXX | |
| Teotik (Teotoros Lapçinciyan) Թէոդիկ |
b.1873 in Constantinople | Survivor | Publisher | 14 October 1916 | Der Zor | XXXXXXX | |
| Archbishop Zaven Der Yeghiayan Տ. Զաւէն Արքեպսկ. Տէր Եղիաեան |
b. 8 September 1868 in Mosul | Survivor | Patriarch of Constantinople | 14 October 1916 | Bagdad | Deposed as Patriarch by decree of the Young Turkish government 28 July 1916 and deported to Bagdad over Konia, Aleppo, Der Zor 4 September 1916, 2 March 1917 (when British troups were approaching) transferred to Mosul. He was liberated by the British in November 1918. Initiated humanitarian help for Armenian refugees in Mosul and returned to Constantinople 4 March 1919 for a second term as Patriarch till 1922, fled to Bulgaria and settled in Bagdad 1924, d. 4 June 1947 in Bagdad. |
Further reading
[edit]- Teotoros Lapçinciyan (Teotik) Գողգոթա հայ հոգեւորականութեան [The Golgotha of the Armenian clergy], H. Mateossian, Constantinople 1921 [gives an account of over 1.500 deported clergymen all over the Ottoman Empire with selected biographical entries and lists 100 notables of 24 April 1915 by name out of 270 in total and classifies them roughly in 9 professional groups]
- Zaven Der Yeghiayan: My Patriarchal Memoirs, Mayreni Publishing, Barrington (RI) 2002 ISBN 1-931834-05-9 [first publicatoin in the Armenian original in Cairo 1947]
See also
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Notes
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