Armen Garo

Garegin Pasdermadjian, also Karekin Pastermadjian (Armenian Գարեգին Փաստրմաճեան, Turkish Karekin Pastırmacıyan ), born February 9, 1872 in Karin in the Vilayet of Erzerum; † March 23, 1923 in Geneva, known by his fighting name arms Garo, an Ottoman politician of Armenian diplomat, and freedom fighter was.

He was a leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF or Dashnak ) and first ambassador of an independent Armenia in the United States.

Life

Garegin Pasdermadjian was born on 9 February 1872 in Karin ( Erzerum vilayet in ). He was the son of Harutjun Pasdermadjian and grandson of Chatschatir Efendi. He graduated in 1891 as one of the best the Sanasarian College of Erzerum ( Sanasarian Varjaran Academy ) from. Later, in 1894 he went to France to study at the College of Agriculture of the University of Nancy Agricultural Science. While in his home from 1864 to 1896 held a series of massacres of Armenians, he joined the progressive- nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation.

After his return to the Ottoman Empire in 1896, he participated in the occupation of the Ottoman Bank. The squatters demanded autonomy for the six predominantly Armenian populated provinces of the Ottoman Empire, and threatened the bank along with 150 hostages to blow into the air. The European leaders in the Bank negotiated a bloodless end the hostage taking and the perpetrators were due to French mediation escape abroad. Pasdermadjian went to Switzerland and a Ph.D. in chemistry. In 1898 he was elected to the Western Bureau of the ARF, whose governing bodies were divided into a western and an eastern wing.

During the Armenian - Tatar War ( with " Tatars " were then today Azerbaijanis called ) from 1905 to 1907 Pasdermadjian successfully organized the defense of the Armenians in Tbilisi in 1907 he was elected to the Eastern Bureau of the ARF.

Pasdermadjian operation in the Caucasus after a profitable copper mine. After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 telegraphed the Armenians in Erzurum and the ARF Pasdermadjian and asked him to run in the upcoming election to the Ottoman parliament. He was in 1908 one of the ARF members in parliament, which he remained until 1912. He belonged to the joint committee of ARF and jungtürkischem Committee of Union and Progress and in 1913 became again a member of the Western Bureau of his party.

After the outbreak of the First World War he joined the Armenian volunteer units that fought on the side of the Imperial Russian army on the Caucasian front against the Ottoman Empire. When the Ottoman government initiated the genocide of the Armenians, to poor Karo involved in the resistance of Van. During this time he became depressed and sick. After the founding of the Democratic Republic of Armenia, 1918, he was first a member of the Armenian delegation in France, then his country's ambassador in the United States. He died from heart disease in Geneva, Switzerland on March 23, 1923, when he participated in a conference on Russia.

After Pasdermadjian the poor Karo Student Association, founded in 2005 is named, the youth organization of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation in Canada.

Work

• Why Armenia Should be Free. Armenia 's role in the present was. Hairenik Publishing, Boston, 1918 reprint. Kessinger Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-165-75486-1.