Aram Achekbashian ( hy, Արամ Աչըքպաշյան, 1867 in

Arapgir Arapgir ( hy, Արաբկիր; ku, Erebgir) is a town and district of Malatya Province, Turkey. As of 2000 it had a population of 17,070 people. It is situated at the confluence of the eastern and western Euphrates, but some miles from the righ ...

– 1915 in

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth ( Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...

) was an Armenian politician who became a member of Social-Democrat Hunchakian Party Central Committee in 1903.

Biography

In 1886, Achekbashian entered the Faculty of Law at Constantinople University. In 1889, Hambartsum Boyajian introduced him to the Hunchakian committee members. He became one of the organizers of Kum Kapu Affray. Beginning in 1894, Achekbashian was one of the organizers of Minor Armenia fedayi movement. He rejected the idea running for a seat in the

Ottoman Parliament The General Assembly ( tr, Meclis-i Umumî (French romanization: "Medjliss Oumoumi" ) or ''Genel Parlamento''; french: Assemblée Générale) was the first attempt at representative democracy by the imperial government of the Ottoman Empire. Al ...

. In 1915, he was hanged by the Ottoman government along with 19 colleagues.

Bibliography

* Martyrs on Bloody Path, by Dr Yeghia Jerejian, Beirut, 1989, p. 37-39 * The Armenian Question, encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Achekbashian, Aram 1867 births 1915 deaths People who died in the Armenian genocide Armenian politicians Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni 20th-century Armenian politicians