Arshak Vramian

Arshak or Arshag Vramian (, born Onnik Derdzakian; 22 March 1870/1871 – 17 April 1915) was an Armenian revolutionary and a leading member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. He worked as an ARF activist in his native Constantinople before fleeing the police. He worked for the party in Bulgaria and Romania before moving to Geneva, where he served on the party's Western Bureau and edited the party organ Droshak. He lived in the United States from 1899 to 1907; while there, he edited the party newspaper Hairenik. He returned to the Ottoman Empire after the Young Turk Revolution restored the Ottoman constitution. He was a member of the Ottoman parliament elected from Van Province. He was killed by the Ottoman authorities in April 1915 at the start of the Armenian genocide.

Biography Arshak Vramian (born Onnik Derdzakian) was born on 22 March 1870 or 1871 in Constantinople. According to his United States naturalization record, his parents were originally from Persia, and he was born a citizen of that country. He was elected to the Ottoman parliament in 1913 as a representative for Van. He moved to Van and was killed at the beginning of the Armenian genocide on the orders of the Ottoman governor Cevdet Bey, Vramian and ARF leader Aram Manukian were summoned by Cevdet Bey on the morning of 17 April 1915. Vramian and Aram were unaware that another ARF leader, Ishkhan, had been killed the previous day. Vramian warned Aram to ignore the governor's summons, but he himself went. He was last seen that evening guarded by gendarmes at the port of Agants. He was killed in an area called Arapu Tsor, not far from Bitlis, although the exact location of his death is unknown.