Hagop Terzian

Hagop Terzian (; August 22, 1879 – 1915) was an Armenian writer and pharmacist who lived in the Ottoman Empire. The theme of much of his writings was Armenian life and heritage in the region of Cilicia. He published a five volume eye-witness account of the Adana massacre. This publication was confiscated by Ottoman authorities but has been preserved. The entire work was republished by the Gomidas Institute in 2009. Terzian was arrested on 24 April 1915 at the start of the Armenian genocide, deported and eventually murdered.

Life Hagop Terzian was born on 22 August 1879 in Hadjin (today Saimbeyli) near Adana in Cilicia within the Ottoman Empire. He then moved to Adana where he attended the local Armenian school Hisusian. Terzian was a prominent member of the self-defense movement in the Armenian quarter of the city. he fled to Constantinople where he opened a pharmacy called "Adana" in the Kumkapı district. The Catholicos of Cilicia Sahak II praised Terzian by stating that he "has created an indelible impression upon everyone as a serious and trustworthy chronicler. It is a laborious, inquisitive, vivid picture of the Great Calamity, brought to white light from under the ruins and ashes by a native son of Cilicia, which will remain an everlasting stain upon the glorified civilization and unquenchable humanism of the twentieth century."