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The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) (Armenian: Template:Hayeren – Hay Heghapokhakan Dashnaktsutiun, Dashnaktsutiun, Template:Hayeren – Dashnak or Tashnak) is an Armenian political party founded in Tiflis (Tbilisi in modern day Georgia) in 1890 by Christapor Mikaelian, Stepan Zorian, and Simon Zavarian. The party operates in Armenia, and in countries where the Armenian Diaspora is present, notably in Lebanon and the ethnically Armenian-dominated de facto Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, which declared its independence from Azerbaijan in 1991, where Armenians fought a six year war against Azerbaijan for independence. The ARF advocates socialism and is a member of the Socialist International. It is the largest political party amongst Armenians in the diaspora, having affiliates in over 200 countries. The Dashnaktsutiun is also the most politically oriented of the parties active in the Armenian Diaspora and traditionally has been one of the staunchest supporters of Armenian nationalism. A member of the ARF is called Dashnaktsagan or Tashnagtsagan in Western Armenian.

The ARF's history dates back to the Ottoman Empire, where its members armed themselves into fedayee groups to defend Armenian villages and to gain an eventual independence, it being the only solution to defend the Armenian people from Turkish oppression and massacres that were widely present in the Ottoman Empire. The Dashnaks worked to create a "free, independent and unified" Armenia, although they sometimes subsided this goal in favour of a more realistic approach. It was instrumental in the creation of the short lived Democratic Republic of Armenia, that fell to the Soviet communists in 1920. After its leadership was exiled by the communists, the ARF established itself in the Armenian diaspora where it helped Armenians preserve their cultural identity. After the fall of the USSR, it returned to Armenia where it is now part of the ruling government coalition.

Origins

In the late 1800s, Eastern Europe and Russia became the hub of various small groups who were advocating for reform in Armenian-populated areas in the Ottoman Empire. In 1890, recognizing the need to unify these groups in order to be more efficient, Christapor Mikaelian, Simon Zavarian and Stepan Zorian created a new political party called the Federation of Armenian Revolutionaries, which would eventually be called the "Armenian Revolutionary Federation" or "Dashnaktsutiun" in 1892.

The Huntchakians at one point had agreed to join as well, seeing that the ARF's political ideology was socialism. However, after the Hunchaks claimed the new party was not Marxist enough, they withdrew from the union. The original aim of the ARF was for autonomy of the Armenian-populated areas in the Ottoman Empire. The party began to organize itself in the Ottoman Empire in the early 1890s and held its first major meeting in Tiflis, Georgia in 1892. At that meeting the party adopted a decentralized modus operandi according to which the various chapters in different countries were allowed to plan and implement policies in tune with their local political atmosphere. The party also set its goal of a society based on the democratic principles of freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and agrarian reform.

Activities in the Russian Empire

The ARF acquired significant strength and sympathy among Russian Armenians from the day it was established. Mainly because of the ARF's orientation towards the Ottoman Empire, the party enjoyed the support of the central Russian administration, as tsarist and ARF foreign policy had the same alignment until 1903. In June 12 1903, the tsarists passed an edict to bring all Armenian Church property under imperial control. This was faced by strong ARF opposition, because it perceived the tsarist edict as a threat to the Armenian national existence. As a result, the ARF leadership decided to actively defend Armenian churches. This caused many ARF casualties in 1905.

Activities in the Ottoman Empire

The ARF became the major political force in Armenian life. It was especially active in the Ottoman Empire, where it organized or participated in many revolutionary activities. In 1894, the ARF participated in the First Sasun Resistance, supplying arms to the local population to help the people of Sasun defend themselves against the Hamidian purges. In June of 1896, the Armenakans organized the Defense of Van in the province of Van where Ottoman Hamidieh soldiers were to attack the city. The Armenakans, assisted by members of the Hunchak and ARF parties supplied every able-bodied men of Van with weapons. They rose in defense and protected the civilians from the attack and subsequant massacre.

When the powers of Europe virtually disregarded the massacres of 1895-1896, members of the Dashnaktsutiun, led by Papken Siuni occupied the Ottoman Bank in August 26, 1896. The purpose of the raid was to dictate the ARF's demands of reform in the Armenian populated areas of the Ottoman Empire and to manage to grab European attention to their cause since the Europeans had many assets in the bank. The operation was successful in getting European attention but at the cost of more massacres by Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

The Khanasor Expedition was performed by the Armenian militia against the Kurdish Mazrik tribe on July 25, 1897. During the Defense of Van, the Mazrik tribe had ambushed a squad of Armenian defenders and mercilessly slaughtered them. The Khanasor Expedition was the ARF's decision to retaliate. It was an important victory for the ARF, both militarily and morally.

In March 30, 1904, the ARF played a major role in the Second Sasun Resistance. The ARF sent arms and fedayees to defend the region for the second time. Among the five hundred fedayees participating in the resistance were top figures such as Kevork Chavoush, Sepasdatsi Murad and Hrayr Djoghk. They managed to hold off the Ottoman army for several months, despite their lack of fighters and firepower.

In 1905, members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation organized the Yildiz Attempt, which was an assassination attempted on Sultan Abdul Hamid II in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (modern day Istanbul). The Yildiz Attempt was not successful as the timed bomb missed its target by a few minutes. The Dashnaks also lost one of its founders, Kristapor Mikaelian, in an accidental explosion during the planning of the operation.

ARF and the Committee of Union and Progress

Two of the most important revolutionary groups trying to overthrow Sultan Abdul Hamid II had been the ARF and the Committee of Union and Progress, a group of Young Turks who had been educated in Europe. In a general assembly meeting in 1907, the ARF realised that both the Armenian and Turkish revolutionaries shared the same goals. The ARF decided to cooperate with the Committee of Union and Progress, hoping that if the Young Turks came to power, reforms and autonomy would be granted to the Armenian minority of the Ottoman Empire. Althought the Tanzimat reforms had given Armenians more rights and seats in the parliament, the ARF was looking to gain autonomy to govern Armenian populated areas of the Ottoman Empire as a "state within a state". The "Second congress of the Ottoman opposition" took place in Paris, France in 1907. Opposition leaders including Ahmed Riza (liberal), Sabahheddin Bey, and Khachatur Maloumian of the ARF were in attendance. During the meeting, an alliance between the two parties was officially declared. The ARF decided to cooperate with the Committee of Union and Progress, hoping that if the Young Turks came to power, autonomy would be granted to the Armenians.

In 1908, Abdul Hamid II was overthrown by Young Turk Revolution, which launched the Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire. Armenians did gain more seats in the 1908 parliament but the reforms fell short of the greater autonomy that the ARF had hoped for. The Adana massacre also created apathy between Armenians and Turks. The ARF thus decided to cut relations with the Young Turks in 1912.

ARF and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution

The Dashnaktsutiun held a meeting on April 26, 1907, dubbed the Fourth General Congress, where leaders of the ARF such as Aram Manougian, Hamo Ohanjanyan and Stepan Stepanian discussed their engagement in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution. They established that the movement was one that had political, ideological and economic components and thus were aimed at the establishment of law and order, human rights and the interests of all working people. They also felt that it would work for the benefit and interest of Armenian-Iranians. The final vote was 25 votes in favour and one absentia.

From 1907-1908, during the time when the Young Turks came to power in the Ottoman Empire, Armenians from the Caucasus, Western Armenia, and Iran started to collaborate with Iranian constitutionalists and revolutionaries. Political parties, notably the Dashnaktsutiun, wanted to influence the direction of the revolution towards greater democracy and to safeguard gains already achieved. The Dashnak contribution to the fight was mostly a military one, as it sent some of its well known fedayees to Iran after the guerrilla campaign in the Ottoman Empire stopped with the rise of the Young Turks. A notable ARF member already in Iran was Yeprem Khan, who had established an ARF branch in the country. Yeprem Khan was highly instrumental in the Constitutional revolution of Iran. After the Persian national parliament was shelled by the Russian Colonel V. Liakhov, Yeprem Khan rallied with Sattar Khan and other revolutionary leaders in the Constitutional Revolution of Iran against Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar. Relations between Sattar Khan and the ARF oscillated between amity and resentment. Sometimes he was viewed as being ignorant and sometimes he was dubbed a great hero. Nonetheless, the ARF came to collaborate with him, and alongside Yeprem Khan posted many victories including the capture of Rasht in February 1909. At the end of June, 1909, the fighters arrived in Tehran and after several battles, took over the Majles building and the Sepahsalar mosque. Yeprem Khan was then appointed chief of Tehran police. This caused tensions between the Dashnaks and Khan.

World War One

In 1915, Dashnak leaders were deported and killed alongside other Armenian intellectuals.

The ARF, maintaining its ideological commitment to a "Free, Independent, and United Armenia", led the defense of the Armenian people during the Armenian Genocide, becoming leaders of the successful Van Resistance. Jevdet Bey, the Ottoman administrator of Van, tried to suppress the resistance by killing two Armenian leaders (Ishkhan and Vramian), and by trying to imprison Aram Manougian who had risen to fame and gained the nickname "Aram of Van". Moreover, on April 19, he issued an order to exterminate all Armenians, and threatened to kill all Muslims who helped them.

There were approximately 185,000 Armenians in Vaspurakan. In the city of Van itself, there were around 30,000 Armenians, but more Armenians from surrounding villages joined them during the Ottoman offensive. The battle started on the April 20, 1915, with Aram Manougian as the leader of the resistance, and lasted for two months. In May, the Armenian battalions and Russian regulars entered the city and successfully drove the Ottoman army out of Van. The Dashnaktsutiun was also involved in other, albeit less successful resistance movements in Zeitun, Shabin-Karahisar, Urfa, and Musa Dagh. Later on, the ARF leader Aram Manougian became governor of the Administration for Western Armenia and worked to ease the sufferings of Armenians.

At the end of World War I, Young Turks, members who were considered as executors of the Armenian Genocide by The Armenian Revolutionary Federation, were assassinated in the operation deemed Operation Nemesis.

Democratic Republic of Armenia

The Russian Empire collapsed in 1917. As a result, in the winter of 1918, the Armenian, Georgian, and Muslim leaders of the Caucasus united to create the Transcaucasian Federation. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk had drastic consequences for the Armenians; the Turkish forces reoccupied Western Armenia. The federation lasted for only 3 months, eventually paving way for the proclamation of the Republics of Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. The negotiators for Armenia were from the ARF.

With the collapse of the Transcaucasian Federation, the Armenians were left to fend for themselves as the Turkish army approached the capital of Yerevan. At first, fearing a major military defeat and massacre of the population of Armenia, the Dashnaks wanted to evacuate the city of Yerevan. It was eventually decided that they would not surrender Yerevan, a decision taken by the Military Council headed by the Colonel Pirumian. It was decided that they would do battle. The opposing armies met on May 28, 1918 near Sardarapat. The Armenian army was able to repel the invading Turkish army. The creation of the Democratic Republic of Armenia was proclaimed on the same day, and the ARF became the ruling party. Armenia was a mostly rural and unindustrialized country, so the Armenian leadership had to modernize the country by constructing paved roads, telegraph lines, and other means of communication. They also improved the education system by loosening the grip that the clergy had on schools, and by creating the Yerevan State University on May 16, 1919. Moreover, they had to subjugate Muslims and communists who opposed Armenian sovereignty.

The ARF, led by "Zoravar" Andranik, tried several times to seize Shusha (known as Shushi by Armenians), a city in Karabakh. Just before the Armistice of Mudros was signed, Andranik was on the way from Zangezur to Shusha, to control the main city of Karabakh. Andranik's forces got within 26 miles of the city when the First World War ended and Turkey, along with Germany and Austria-Hungary, surrendered to the Allies. British forces ordered Andranik to stop all military advances, giving him the assurances that the conflict would be solved with the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Andranik, not wanting to antagonize relations with the British, retreated to Gorin, Zangezur.

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation had a strong presence in the DRA government. Most important governmental posts, such as Prime Minister, Defence Minister and Interior Minister were controlled by its members. Despite their tight grip on power, the ARF was unable to stop the impending Communist invasion from the north, which culminated with a Soviet takeover in 1920. The ARF was banned, its leaders exiled and many of its members dispersed to other parts of the world.

ARF in the Armenian Diaspora

After the communists took over the short lived Democratic Republic of Armenia and ARF leaders were exiled, the Dashnaks moved their base of operations where the Armenian diaspora had settled. With the large influx of Armenian refugees in the levant, the ARF established a strong political structure in Lebanon and to a lesser extent, Syria. From 1921 to 1990, the Dashnaktsutsiun established political structures in over 200 states including the United States, where another large influx of Armenians settled.

The ARF is considered the foremost organization in the Armenian Diaspora, having established numerous Armenian schools, community centers, scouting and athletic groups, relief societies, youth organizations, camps, and other organizations throughout the world. The ARF also works as an umbrella organization to the Armenian National Committee of America, the Armenian Relief Society, the Homenetmen Armenian General Athletic Union, the Hamazkayin Cultural Foundation, and numerous other community organizations. It also operates the Armenian Youth Federation, an organization that encourages the youth of the diaspora to join the political cause of the ARF and the Armenian people. The ARF-affiliated Armenian National Committee of America, and its sister organizations such as the Armenian National Committee of Canada subsequently have played a significant role in the campaign for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide in their respective countries.

The passing of Catholicos Garegin of the Holy See of Cilicia prompted a struggle for succession. The National Ecclsiastic Assembly, which was largely influenced by the ARF, elected Zareh of Aleppo, Syria, a move that was not accepted by the Catholicos of All Armenians based in Echmiadzin, by the anti-ARF coalition and Soviet Armenian authorities. Zareh extended his administrative authority over a large part of the Armenian diaspora, further segragating it. The large Armenian community of Lebanon was split, creating sporadic clashes between Armenians.

From 1975 to 1985, during the climax of the Lebanese Civil War, the Dashnaktsitiun armed its members and helped them protect Armenian populated regions of Beirut, notably Bourj Hammoud. In 1990, during the dissolution of the USSR, the ARF returned to the Caucasus, aiding the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army by sending and arming volunteers and supplying them with weapons, food, medicine and moral support.

Modern history

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The ARF has always maintained its ideological commitment to "a Free, Independent, and United Armenia." The term United Armenia refers to the borders of Armenia that were recognized by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and outlined in the Treaty of Sèvres. After Armenia fell under Soviet control in 1920, the ARF, now dispersed throughout the Armenian Diaspora, fought Soviet rule over Armenia and championed the cause of Armenian independence; it played a leading role in organizing a social and cultural framework aimed at preserving the Armenian identity.

When independence was achieved in 1991, the ARF soon became one of the major and most active political parties, tracing behind the Pan-Armenian National Movement (PANM). Consequently, on December 28, 1994 President Levon Ter-Petrossian in a live television speech banned the ARF, which was the nation's leading opposition party, along with Yerkir, the country's largest daily newspaper. Throughout the evening, government security forces arrested leading ARF figures. Police seized computers, fax machines, files and printing equipment from their offices. In addition to Yerkir, government forces also closed several other literary, women's, cultural, and youth publications. Thirty-one men, who would later became to be known as the "Dro Group", were arrested under the charges of conspiracy to commit terrorism and seek the overthrow of the government and were convicted and sentenced to prison. Jhirair Libaridyan, a historian and close adviser of Ter-Petrossian presented the evidence against the defendants. He later stated in an interview that he was unsure if the evidence was true or not, suggesting that the notion that the party was closed due to its increasing chances of winning seats. The ban on the party was lifted, however, less than a week after Ter-Petrossian fell from power and was replaced by Robert Kocharian who was backed by the Dashnaks.

Today, the ARF is one of the three parties in the government coalition, along with the Republican Party and United Labor Party. The Country of Law party was also a member of the governing coalition, until it pulled out in May of 2006. With 11 of the 131 seats in the National Assembly of Armenia, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation is the major socialist party in Armenia and the second largest party in parliament.

In addition to its parliamentary seats, the following governmental ministries are also headed by ARF members:

• Ministry of Agriculture, Davit Lokian

• Ministry of Education and Science, Levon Mkrtchian

• Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Aghvan Vardanian

• Ministry of Healthcare, Norair Davidian

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|} The Armenian Revolutionary Federation held 9 of the 33 seats in the National Assembly of Nagorno Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave that was transferred to Soviet Azerbaijan under the leadership of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s, and became controlled by Armenian forces in the 1990s. The Dashnaktsutiun was the second largest party in Nagorno-Karabakh. Even though it is de-facto independent and has not been under Azeri control since the early 1990s, Nagorno-Karabakh republic has yet to be recognized by any country. The ARF was part of an electoral alliance of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the Movement 88, that won only 3 out of 33 seats at the 19 June 2005 elections.

Lebanon

Ethnic Armenians are allocated 6 seats in Lebanon's 128-member National Assembly. The Lebanese branch of the ARF has usually controlled a majority of the Armenian vote and won most of the ethnic Armenian seats in the National Assembly although it currently holds 2 seats. It has generally avoided entanglement in sensitive domestic issues, usually supporting whatever government has happened to be in power. However, the ARF harshly criticized the Lebanese government's decision in 2006 to invite the deployment of Turkish troops as part of the multilateral UN peacekeeping force.

In 1956, when Bishop Zareh was consecrated Catholicos of Cilicia, the Catholicos of Echmiadzin refused to recognize his authority. This controversy polarized the Armenian community of Lebanon. As a result, in the context of the Lebanese civil strife of 1958, an armed conflict erupted between supporters (the ARF) and opponents (Hunchaks, Ramgavars) of Zareh.

Prior to the Lebanese Civil War of 1975 to 1990, the party was closely allied to the Phalangist Party of Pierre Gemayel, and generally ran joint tickets with the Phalangists, especially in Beirut constituencies with large Armenian populations. The refusal of the ARF, along with most Armenian groups, to play an active role in the civil war, however, soured relations between the two parties, and the Lebanese Forces (a militia dominated by Phalangists and commanded by Bachir Gemayel, Pierre Gemayel's son) responded by attacking the Armenian quarters of many Lebanese towns including Bourj Hammoud. Many Armenians affiliated with the ARF took up arms voluntarily to defend their quarters.

A major change occurred in the parliamentary election of 2000. Negotiations to form a joint ticket between the ARF and the Karama (Dignity) party of Rafik Hariri broke down over Hariri's insistence that all candidates elected on his list, including ARF candidates, would have to form a unified parliamentary block subsequently - a rarity in Lebanese politics. He also refused the ARF proposal to provide the joint candidate for the sole seat allocated to Lebanon's Protestant community (many of whom are ethnically Armenian), insisting that that seat should go to an ally of his. The ARF decided to go it alone, although other Armenian parties joined Hariri's list. In an unprecedented sweep, the Dignity movement and its allies captured 13 of Beirut's 19 seats, and the ARF was left with only 1 parliamentary seat, its worst result in many decades.

In the 2005 Beirut elections, the ARF was disgruntled because four seats normally reserved for Beirut's big Armenian community had gone unopposed to Hariri's candidates. It called for a boycott.

There had also been speculation that the Lebanese branch of the ARF had broken away from the main party's political ideology of socialism and embraced capitalism. These claims were denied by prominent ARF member and Minister of Agriculture of Armenia Davit Lokian.

Goals

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation's goals are:

• The creation of a Free, Independent, and United Armenia. The borders of United Armenia shall include all territories designated as Armenia by the Treaty of Sèvres as well as the regions of Artsakh, Javakhk, and Nakhichevan (See map on right).

• International condemnation of the Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians, return of the lands which are claimed to be occupied, and just reparations to the Armenian nation.

• The gathering of worldwide expatriate Armenians on the lands of United Armenia.

• Strengthening Armenia's statehood, institutionalization of democracy and the rule of law, securing the people's economic well being, and establishment of social justice. Armenia must be a democratic and socialistic independent republic.

Criticism of the ARF

The ARF is often criticised and accused of having a present strategy that does not differ from the one used during the time of the Ottoman Empire. Their tactics have often been criticised as still being aimed at convincing Western governments and diplomatic circles to sponsor the party's demands.

ARF members have also been accused of assassinations. Such was the case with the assassination of Armenian archbishop Levon Tourian in New York in 1933. The archbishop was accused of being exclusively pro-Soviet by the ARF. However, the ARF itself was legally exonerated from any direct complicity in the assassination. This was a part of a greater conflict that raged between the two "camps" of the Armenian diaspora; the ARF still resented the fact that they were ousted from Armenia after the Red Army took control, and supported the creation of a "Free, Independent, and United Armenia", free from both Soviet and Turkish hegemony. The Hunchaks and AGBU, the main rivals of the ARF, supported the newly established Soviet rule in Armenia.

The guerrilla organization Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide which carried out a string of assassinations in the seventies and eighties has also been sometimes linked to the Dashnaks.

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See also

• Armenian Youth Federation
• Armenian militia
• Armenian resistance
• Democratic Republic of Armenia
• Operation Nemesis
• United Armenia

External links

• Official web site
• Armenian Revolutionary Federation Shant Student Association
• History

• Political parties in Armenia
• Political parties in Lebanon
• Political parties in Nagorno Karabakh
• Political parties in the Ottoman Empire
• Political parties of minorities
• Socialist parties
• Socialist International
• 1890 establishments