serviceyears death_date death_place birth_name birth_place allegiance battles birth_date image article_title name
1890s -- 1918 yes 1926 1870 cairo , egypt armenakis yekarian van , van vilayet , ottoman empire armenakan armenian national liberation movement 1870 file : armenak yekarian.jpg armenak yekarian
 armenak yekarian
armenak yekarian

armenakis yekarian -lrb- ; 1870 -- 1926 -rrb- was an armenian `` fedayee '' .
yekarian was born in van , ottoman empire .
he joined the armenian national liberation movement through the ranks of the armenakans in 1888 .
his early education was at varagavank monastery .
in 1896 , during the defense of van , he obtaining weapons from persia to organize self-defense in the city .
he was imprisoned with 40 of his comrades and then released at the end of the conflict .
thereafter , he left the ottoman empire as required by the sultan .
he took refuge in urmia in persia .
after the deposition of the sultan by the young turk revolution , he returned to van in 1908 .
he joined the van resistance in 1915 .
after the armenian victory , they set up an armenian provisional government , with aram manukian at its head .
armenak yekarian became the police chief .
aram manoukian , armenak yekarian and others tried to give a national-civil character to the exclusively militarized administration .
in 1922 , he emigrated with his family to cairo , egypt , where he died in 1926 .
his family moved to soviet armenia in 1947 .
