Diran Kelekian
Diran Kelekian (Dikran Kelegian, 1862–1915) was an Ottoman Armenian journalist and professor at the Darülfünûn-u Şahâne (now the University of Istanbul). He was editor of two newspapers, Cihan (since 1883) and Sabah (since 1908). He studied in Constantinople (Istanbul) and at the French Academy of Sciences at Marseille, then became a lecturer at Ottoman University of Constantinople.
Diran Kelekian
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- Name
- Diran Kelekian Տիրան Քէլէկեան
- Born
- 1862
- Birthplace
- Kayseri, Ottoman Empire
- Died
- 1915
- Place of death
- Çankırı, Ottoman Empire
- Occupation
- Journalist, editor, writer and professor
- Nationality
- Ottoman Empire
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Diran Kelekian (Dikran Kelegian, 1862–1915) was an Ottoman Armenian journalist and professor at the Darülfünûn-u Şahâne (now the University of Istanbul). He was editor of two newspapers, Cihan (since 1883) and Sabah (since 1908). He studied in Constantinople (Istanbul) and at the French Academy of Sciences at Marseille, then became a lecturer at Ottoman University of Constantinople.
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He fled to Europe during the anti-Armenian violence of the 1890s and returned to Istanbul in 1898, becoming the editor of Sabah. He soon fled the country again, spending the middle 1900s in Cairo and returning after the Young Turk Revolution. He also worked as a correspondent of Daily Mail and Presse Associe, published journalistic works in Turkish using Armenian letters, compiled a French–Turkish dictionary. Kelekian was arrested in April 1915 during the Armenian genocide, deported to Çankırı and killed.
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• Name — Diran Kelekian Տիրան Քէլէկեան • Born — 1862 • Birthplace — Kayseri, Ottoman Empire • Died — 1915 • Place of death — Çankırı, Ottoman Empire • Occupation — Journalist, editor, writer and professor
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1862
Diran Kelekian born at Kayseri.
1915
Diran Kelekian died at Çankırı.
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- 1.M. Elfenbein. Narrated Empires: Perceptions of Late Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism. 113–115.
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- Christopher J. Walker, Armenia: The Survival of a Nation, revised second edition, 1990; page 427.
- Friedrich Schrader, "Politisches Leben in der Türkei", Die Neue Zeit 1919 (37.2): 463.
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