The by-law of the Hinchak Association and the thoughts of Karabet Tomayan overlap with anarchism, which was the fashionable political movement of that period (BOA, Y.PRK.UM. On the one hand, he taught at the American Anatolia Protestant College, and on the other hand, he established the Merzifon Revolutionary Committee and became the head of it (Karaca, 2005, s.106). Karabet Tomayan, who undertook the Protestant Revolutionary Mission when he was in Switzerland, carried out his mission in Merzifon and made sure that the efforts made for this were not in vain because important works and big responsibilites were waiting for him. The couple of Karabet-Lucy returned to Merzifon having undertaken great hopes and a big mission. He married Lucy, who was the daughter of a Protestant pastor. He published his first work in Lausanne when he was 26. This talented Armenian youth was sent to Switzerland and he was educated there. When he was 12, he met some missionaries who had come from the other side of the Atlantic. Karabet Tomayan, son of Ohannes, was born in Merzifon in 1853. The house next to it, which belonged to the Armenian Melkon, was set on fire by Armenians during the incidents and the state paid 500 liras because of this. There were about ten buildings on the college campus. Yet even Nishan, who was the watchman of the college, received a salary of 1 liras (BOA, Y.PRK.DH. 5-83), was 16 liras and 37 kurush (BOA, A.MKT.MHM. Because of the same attitude, the property tax of the college, which was in the shape of a big military barracks (BOA,Y.PRK.DH. For example, on 18 April 1895, when the incident got bigger, an ineresting, tragicomic, and exemplary correspondence took place between Istanbul and Merzifon because Sivas governor Halil Pasha gave information on this one and a half years ago (BOA, A.MKT.MHM. Merzifon also took its share from the populatiry of colleges in the U.S.A., which opened its first missionary college in 1824.Īlthough the colleges were not inspected and there was no proper permit for construction, the Ottoman State was not interested with this subject. England focused its interest on the oil regions of Iraq and Jerusalem and left Anatolia to the U.S.A., so to speak. This period was also a process in which American missionaries wandered in Anatolia freely and colleges sprung up like mushrooms. Since they earned their living wih trade, only 141 of the Armenians lived in villages (BOA, Y.PRK.UM. At that time, Merzifon was an important place of settlement with a population of 25,555 of which 6,216 were Armenian. The incident took place in Merizfon county of the Amasya sanjak that is connected with the Sivas province in 1893.
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