# 1889 Bashkale clash

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Bashkale Resistance Date May, 1889 Location Başkale, Van Vilayet, Ottoman Empire Belligerents Ottoman Empire Armenakan Party Strength 4 zaptiyes[1] 3 revolutionaries[1] Casualties and losses None 2 killed

Battles involving Armenian National movement

v t e Armenian national movement (1862–1921) Early Hamidian Period Zeitun Bashkale Hamidian Period Kukunian Kum Kapu Bab Ali 1st Sasun Zeitun Van Ottoman bank Khanasor Holy Apostoles Monastery 2nd Sasun Abdul Hamid II assassination attempt Sulukh World War I Armenian resistance during the Armenian genocide Zeitun Sasun [ru] Van Urfa Shabin-Karahisar Fındıcak [tr] Azakh Musa Dagh First Republic of Armenia Caucasus campaign Sardarabad Mastara Bash-Aparan Karakilisa Armenian–Azerbaijani war March Days Goychay Kurdamir Binagadi Baku 1st Karabakh Aras Sharur Nakhichevan Zangezur Muslim Uprisings Oltu 2nd Karabakh Armeno-Georgian War Sanahin Hairum Ekaterinenfeld 1st Shulaveri Sadakhlo 2nd Shulaveri Turkish invasion of Armenia Oltu Sarikamish Surmalu Kars Alexandropol Soviet–Armenian conflict May Uprising Invasion of Armenia February Uprising Zangezur

The **Bashkale Resistance** ([Armenian](/source/Armenian_language): 1889 թվականի Բաշկալեի բախում) was the bloody encounter between three revolutionaries of [Armenakan](/source/Armenakan_Party) and some [Ottoman](/source/Ottoman_Empire) officials in May 1889.[1] It is named after the town of [Başkale](/source/Ba%C5%9Fkale) in the [Van Vilayet](/source/Van_Vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire, today in [Van Province](/source/Van_Province) of [Turkey](/source/Turkey). The event was important as it was reflected on main Armenian newspapers as the recovered documents on the Armenakans showed an extensive plot for an uprising.[2]

## The event

The comrades Karapet Koulaksizian, Hovhannes Agripasian, and Vardan Goloshian, left the village of [Haftvan](/source/Haftvan%2C_West_Azerbaijan) (Salmast district of [Persia](/source/Persia)), for Van on May 16, 1889.[1] They were stopped near Van by Ottoman police. The police demanded that they disarm to protect the accompanying caravan. In the conflict Goloshian and Agripasian died and Koulaksizian escaped. The police recovered two letters (accompanying documents) addressed to Koulaksizian, one from Avetis Patiguian of [London](/source/London) and the other from Mekertitch Portugalian in [Marseille](/source/Marseille).

## Reflections

Ottoman Empire believed that the men were members of a large revolutionary apparatus and the discussion was reflected on newspapers, (*Eastern Express*, *Oriental Advertiser*, *Saadet*, and *Tarik*) and the responses were on the Armenian papers. In some Armenian circles, this event was considered as a [martyrdom](/source/Martyrdom) and brought other armed conflicts.[3]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Nalbandian_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Nalbandian_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-Nalbandian_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-Nalbandian_1-3) Louise Nalbandian (1963). [*The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development of Armenian Political Parties Through the Nineteenth Century*](https://books.google.com/books?id=_dIsS3aidr0C&pg=PA100). University of California Press. p. 100. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-520-00914-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-00914-1). {{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#invalid_isbn_date))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Aram-Ruben, Hai Heghapokhakani Me Hishataknere [Memoirs of an Armenian Revolutionary] (Los Angeles, 1952), II, 268–269.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Darbinian, op. cit., p. 123; Adjemian, op. cit., p. 7; Varandian, Dashnaktsuthian Patmuthiun, I, 30; Great Britain, Turkey No. 1 (1889), op. cit., Inclosure in no. 95. Extract from the "Eastern Express" of June 25, 1889, pp. 83–84; ibid., no. 102. Sir W. White to the Marquis of Salisbury-(Received July 15), p. 89; Great Britain, Turkey No. 1 (1890), op. cit., no. 4. Sir W. White to the Marquis of Salisbury-(Received August 9), p. 4; ibid., Inclosure 1 in no. 4, Colonel Chermside to Sir W. White, p. 4; ibid., Inclosure 2 in no. 4. Vice-Consul Devey to Colonel Chermside, pp. 4–7; ibid., Inclosure 3 in no. 4. M. Patiguian to M. Koulaksizian, pp. 7–9; ibid., Inclosure 4 in no.

v t e Armenian national movement History Persecution of the Armenians Political and military leaders Organizations and military units Until World War I Syunik rebellion (1722) Battle of Halidzor (1727) Liberation struggle of Artsakh (1724-1731) Zeitun uprising (1862) Bashkale clash (1889) Kukunian Expedition (1890) Kum Kapu demonstration (1890) Sasun rebellion (1894) Zeitun rebellion (1895–96) Ottoman Bank Takeover (1896) Van Defense (1896) Khanasor Expedition (1897) Battle of Holy Apostles Monastery (1901) Sasun uprising (1904) Yıldız assassination attempt (1905) Battle of Sulukh (1907) Hamidian massacres (1894–96) Adana massacre (1909) Armenian genocide (1915) Resistance during the genocide Zeitun Sasun [ru] Van Shabin-Karahisar Fındıcak [tr] Urfa Musa Dagh Arabo Aghbiur Serob Kevork Chavush Andranik Aram Manukian Drastamat Kanayan Garegin Nzhdeh Political parties Armenakan (1885) Hunchak (1887) Armenian Revolutionary Federation (1890) Units Fedayi Armenian volunteer units (1914–1917) French Armenian Legion (1916–1920)

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