Vartkes Serengülian also known as Hovhannes or Gisak was an Armenia

Armenia

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n political and public activist, member of Ottoman Parliament.

He studied in the Ardzinian and Sanasarian colleges of Karin (Erzurum

Erzurum

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). In late-1880's he organized demonstrations in Karin and was arrested. After he was released in 1892 he worked in Constantinople, then in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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 and Russian Empire

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 as a revolutionary activist. In Van

Van

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 Serengyulian supported the ideas of Hrayr Dzhoghk

Hrayr Dzhoghk

Hrayr Dzhoghk was an Armenian military leader, fedayee and teacher, part of the Armenian national liberation movement.He was born in Aharonk, a village in the Western Armenian Taron province, in a priest's family. He graduated from the Surb Karapet Monastery school in the late 1880s, then studied...

, cooperated with Armenakan Party

Armenakan Party

The Armenakan Party is a center-right political party in Nagorno-Karabakh .Armenakan Party failed to receive any seats in the 19 June 2005 elections....

. He was arrested in Van and in 1901 was sentenced to a 101-year prison. In 1908 after the Young Turk revolution he was released from prison and elected as a member of Ottoman parliament. In 1915 he was arrested and deported to Urfa, where he was tortured and killed.

Sources

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

Link

• www.genocide.ru/enc/serenkyulyan.htm
• www.worldradio.ch/wrs/news/rundown/news-at-a-glance-2.shtml?11496