Daniel Varoujan

At the age of 31, when he was reaching international stature, he was deported and murdered by the Young Turk government, as part of the officially planned and executed Armenian genocide.

[5][6] Varoujan was born Daniel Tchboukkiarian (Դանիէլ Չպուքքեարեան)[7] in the village of Prknig (now called Çayboyu[8]) near the town of Sivas in Turkey.

He then continued his education at the Collegio Armeno Moorat-Raphael in Venice, and in 1905 entered Ghent University in Belgium, where he followed courses in literature, sociology and economics.

Participants saw as their purpose creating a "center", a temple of Art which, according to their manifesto, would attract a fragmented and spiritually scattered nation in order to promote its artistic creativity.

At that location, beside a stream, they were murdered by four Kurds headed by a local criminal named Halo acting under the instructions of members of the Ittihadist committee in Chankiri.

Varoujan's last months, starting from his arrest to death, were portrayed in an award-winning short arthouse film Taniel by British director Garo Berberian, narrated by Sean Bean.

Daniel and his wife Araksi
Daniel Varoujan memorial at the Şişli Armenian Cemetery of Istanbul