Bedros Kapamajian

.Bedros Kapamajian (Armenian: _hy. Պետրոս Քափամաճեան) (1840 - Van 1912), was an Armenian citizen of the Ottoman Empire, a textile trader, and mayor of the town of Van. [By Y. G. Çarkçıyan, (1953), "Armenians working for the Ottoman Empire between 1453-1953 (tr:Türk devleti hizmetinde Ermeniler, 1453-1953) 302 pages.] During the Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire, Kapamajian was appointed the mayor of Van on February 2 1908. [BOA İrade Taltifat, 1325. Za/111.] The Armenian Revolutionary Federation accused Kapamajian of being a puppet of the Ottoman Government. [By Altan Deliorman, "Türklere Karsi Ermeni Komitecileri" Published 1973 Boğaziçi Basım ve Yayınevi 335 pages] In 1912 he was assassinated [Hasan Oktay, the assassinated Ottoman governors (tr:"Valiler Eskiden de Hedefti"), published in Tarih ve Medeniyet, Istanbul 1999, volume 62, pp. 60-63.] by his own son, a member of ARF from Van. [Hüseyin Çelik, ‘The 1915 Armenian Revolt in Van: Eyewitness Testimony’, in The Armenians in the Late Ottoman Period, pp. 91-92.]

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