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Krikor Zohrab

Died in 1915

Krikor Zohrab was born in 1861 in Beşiktaş, in Constantinople, into a well-off family. An engineering graduate of Galatasaray in 1880, he became a lawyer in 1884 and one of the most reputed members of the Ottoman bar, while writing in the Armenian press from 1878. He lived in Europe from 1895 to 1908, then was elected deputy to the Ottoman parliament. Arrested in 1915 despite his immunity and sent before a court martial in Diyarbakır, he was murdered with the deputy Vartkes Serengülian near Urfa, in mid-July 1915.

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