Historical Examples of the ARF’s Activities in Dersim

Thank you for this I knew none of what has been written . My Great Grandfather was Manouk Papazian of Mersina ,Cilicia [Southwest of Adana] he had a Greek wife . They were both killed by Turkish Chetes [Irregulars ] after the French left . My Grandfather Nicoghos Papazian had a Greek Cypriote wife .He took both the Armenian and Greek relatives on a ship to Alexandria ,Egypt where he was encourage to change our family name to the Greek equivalent of Papadopoulos. My mothers people are also Greek from Symi ,Dodecanese Islands ,Greece . My parents took me to New Zealand in 1962 aged 6 . I am proud to be of both Armenian and Greek descent long live Hayastan and HELLAS… Nicholas John Papadopoulos [ Had my Papik not changed our Patronymic I would have been:- Nicoghos Hovannes Papazian].