He became a strong advocate of western support in order to save the Armenians from the oppression of the Ottoman government.

[4] After joining the Ramgavar party, he met with Boghos Nubar and participated in the Armenian National Delegation during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

[citation needed] Arshag Chobanian is considered one of the fundamental Armenian realist writers, though he also has many works in the romantic style as well.

[1] Among some of the readers of these writings was famed French novelist and writer Anatole France, who thereafter sympathized with the plight of the Armenian people.

[1] Chobanian wrote literary criticism of European writers such as Emile Verhaeren, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Henrik Ibsen, and many more.