Vartkes Serengülian

Vartkes Hovhannes Serengülian (Armenian Վարդգէս Յովհաննէս Սէրէնկիւլեան; * 1871 in Erzurum, Erzurum vilayet, † 1915 in Urfa ), also known as short Gisak, was an Armenian political and social activist and member of the Ottoman Parliament.

He studied at the College Ardzinian and on Sanasarian College in Erzurum. In the late 1880s he organized demonstrations in Erzurum and was arrested. After he was released in 1892, he first worked in Istanbul and was then in Bulgaria and the Russian Empire revolutionary activist. In Van Serengülian supported the ideas Hrayr Dzhoghks and cooperated with the Armenakan party. He was arrested in 1901 and sentenced Van to a prison term of 101 years. After the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, he was released and elected members of the Ottoman Parliament.

During the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 he was arrested again and sent to Urfa, where he was tortured and killed.

Swell

• "Armenian Question", encyclopedia, ed by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, p. 414
• Serenkyulyan