Sarkis Zeitlian | |
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Born | 1930 Musa Dagh, Hatay Province, Turkey |
Disappeared | 28 March 1985 (aged 54–55) Beirut, Lebanon |
Status | Missing for 39 years, 5 months and 11 days; assumed murdered |
Nationality | Lebanese American |
Occupation | Journalist |
Spouse |
Sona Simonian (m. 1957) |
Children | Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh |
Sarkis Zeitlian (Armenian: Սարգիս Զէյթլեան; 1930 – abducted on 28 March 1985)[1] was a Lebanese Armenian journalist and political leader of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF).[2] He was abducted on 28 March 1985 in West Beirut, Lebanon and presumably murdered under unknown circumstances. At the time of his abduction, Zeitlian was director of the ARF's international media network. Zeitlian was a member of the Political Bureau of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation; the highest ranking subdivision of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.[3]