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The comrades Karapet Koulaksizian, Hovhannes Agripasian, and Vardan Goloshian, left the village of Haftvan (Salmast district of Persia), for Van on May 16, 1889.<ref name="Nalbandian"/> They were stopped near Van by Ottoman police. The police demanded that they disarm to protect the accompanying caravan. In the conflict Goloshian and Agripasian died and Koulaksizian escaped. The police recovered two letters (accompanying documents) addressed to Koulaksizian, one from Avetis Patiguian of London and the other from Mekertitch Portugalian in Marseille. |
The comrades Karapet Koulaksizian, Hovhannes Agripasian, and Vardan Goloshian, left the village of Haftvan (Salmast district of Persia), for Van on May 16, 1889.<ref name="Nalbandian"/> They were stopped near Van by Ottoman police. The police demanded that they disarm to protect the accompanying caravan. In the conflict Goloshian and Agripasian died and Koulaksizian escaped. The police recovered two letters (accompanying documents) addressed to Koulaksizian, one from Avetis Patiguian of London and the other from Mekertitch Portugalian in Marseille. |
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{{cquote|The many hundreds (and perhaps some thousands) of Armenians and Syrians in the region of Bashkale have been massacred... In the mountains Mar Shimun is said to have gathered the independent tribes about him, and they are battling for their lives against great odds.<ref name=GrigorS>{{cite book|last=Suny|first=Ronald Grigor|title=A question of genocide: Armenians and Turks at the end of the Ottoman Empire|year=2011|pages=256|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=q_mHshUAeZ8C&pg=PA256&dq=Bashkale+armenians&hl=en&sa=X&ei=caF2T6GsOcHL0QGV8sGbDQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Bashkale%20armenians&f=false}}</ref> |
{{cquote|The many hundreds (and perhaps some thousands) of Armenians and Syrians in the region of Bashkale have been massacred... In the mountains Mar Shimun is said to have gathered the independent tribes about him, and they are battling for their lives against great odds.<ref name=GrigorS>{{cite book|last=Suny|first=Ronald Grigor|title=A question of genocide: Armenians and Turks at the end of the Ottoman Empire|year=2011|pages=256|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=q_mHshUAeZ8C&pg=PA256&dq=Bashkale+armenians&hl=en&sa=X&ei=caF2T6GsOcHL0QGV8sGbDQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Bashkale%20armenians&f=false}}</ref>}} |
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The Bashkale Resistance (Template:Lang-tr[citation needed], "Başkale skirmish") was the bloody encounter between three revolutionaries of Armenakan and the some Ottoman officials on May 1889.[1] Even though it is named as Bashkale Resistance, the event happened in the Van Province. The event was important as it was reflected on main Armenian newspapers as the recovered documents on the Armenakans showed an extensive plot for an uprising.[2]
The event
The comrades Karapet Koulaksizian, Hovhannes Agripasian, and Vardan Goloshian, left the village of Haftvan (Salmast district of Persia), for Van on May 16, 1889.[1] They were stopped near Van by Ottoman police. The police demanded that they disarm to protect the accompanying caravan. In the conflict Goloshian and Agripasian died and Koulaksizian escaped. The police recovered two letters (accompanying documents) addressed to Koulaksizian, one from Avetis Patiguian of London and the other from Mekertitch Portugalian in Marseille.
The many hundreds (and perhaps some thousands) of Armenians and Syrians in the region of Bashkale have been massacred... In the mountains Mar Shimun is said to have gathered the independent tribes about him, and they are battling for their lives against great odds.[3]
Massacre
According to Arnold J. Toynbee, the Turkish army instead of going after their enemies had massacred the Armenians and Assyrians in Bashkale, Sarai, also including the surrounding villages. The entire male population, in some parts were all killed.[4]
Reflections
Ottoman Empire believed that the men were members of a large revolutionary apparatus and the discussion was reflected on newspapers, (Eastern Express, Oriental Advertiser, Saadet, and Tarik) and the responses were on the Armenian papers. In some Armenian circles, this event was considered as a martyrdom and brought other armed conflicts.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d Louise Nalbandian, The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development of Armenian Political Parties Through the Nineteenth Century, University of California Press, 1963, p. 100.
- ^ Aram-Ruben, Hai Heghapokhakani Me Hishataknere [Memoirs of an Armenian Revolutionary] (Los Angeles, 1952), II, 268-269.
- ^ Suny, Ronald Grigor (2011). A question of genocide: Armenians and Turks at the end of the Ottoman Empire. p. 256.
- ^ J. Toynbee, Arnold. The treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-1916: documents presented to Viscount Grey of Falloden by Viscount Bryce. p. 96.
- ^ Darbinian, op. cit., p. 123; Adjemian, op. cit., p. 7; Varandian, Dashnaktsuthian Patmuthiun, I, 30; Great Britain, Turkey No. 1 (1889), op. cit., Inclosure in no. 95. Extract from the "Eastern Express" of June 25, 1889, pp. 83-84; ibid., no. 102. Sir W. White to the Marquis of Salisbury-(Received July 15), p. 89; Great Britain, Turkey No. 1 (1890), op. cit., no. 4. Sir W. White to the Marquis of Salisbury-(Received August 9), p. 4; ibid., Inclosure 1 in no. 4, Colonel Chermside to Sir W. White, p. 4; ibid., Inclosure 2 in no. 4. Vice-Consul Devey to Colonel Chermside, pp. 4-7; ibid., Inclosure 3 in no. 4. M. Patiguian to M. Koulaksizian, pp. 7-9; ibid., Inclosure 4 in no.