Kum Kapu demonstration

Kum Kapu demonstration
Kum Kapu demonstration
Date	July 27, 1890
Location	Constantinople
Methods	Demonstrations
Parties
Hnchak Party	Ottoman policemen
Lead figures
	Medzn Mourad ; Mihran Damadian Sultan Abdul Hamid II
Casualties and losses
3 protesters	4 policemen
v; t; e; Armenian national movement (1862–1921)
	Zeitun (1862); Bashkale (1889); Armenian resistance during Hamidian massacres Gugunian (1890); Kum Kapu (1890); 1st Sasun (1894); Zeitun (1895-96); Ottoman bank (1896); Khanasor (1897); Holy Apostoles Monastery (1901); 2nd Sasun (1904); Assassination Attempt in Yıldız (1905); Sulukh (1907); ; Armenians in World War I Armenian resistance during the Armenian genocide Zeitun; Van; Shabin-Karahisar; Musa Dagh; Caucasus campaign Sarikamish; Ardahan; Erzurum; Lazistan; Bitlis; Mush; Trabzon; First Republic of Armenia; Caucasus campaign; Sardarabad; Mastara; Bash-Aparan; Karakilisa; Armenian–Azerbaijani war March Days; Goychay Karamaryan; ; Kurdamir; Bingadi; Baku; 1st Karabakh; Aras Sharur; Nakhichevan; ; Zangezur/Syunik Goris; ; Muslim Uprisings 1st Oltu; ; 2nd Karabakh; Armeno-Georgian War Unknown battles; Turkish–Armenian War 2nd Oltu; Sarikamish (1920); Surmalu; Kars; Alexandropol; Soviet-Armenian conflict May Uprising; Invasion of Armenia; February Uprising; Mountainous Armenia;

The Kum Kapu demonstration occurred in the Kumkapı district of Constantinople on July 27, 1890. It ensued in skirmishing in which several demonstrators and four police officers were killed. The intent of the demonstration was "..to awaken the maltreated Armenians and to make the Sublime Porte fully aware of the miseries of the Armenians."^[1]

^ Khan-Azat, op. cit., VI (February 1928), pp. 124–125

[1] Khan-Azat, op. cit., VI (February 1928), pp. 124–125

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