Khachatur Malumian
Khachatur Malumian, also known as Edgar Aknuni was an Ottoman Armenian journalist and political activist.Biography
Khachatur Malumian gained his early education at the Nersisyan School in Tiflis. He studied at Geneva University, where he became one of the close friends of Christapor Mikaelian, contributing to his Droshak Journal. In 1907 in Vienna, he was delegated to the ARF IV Conference, then in Paris he organized the General Meeting of opposite Ottoman parties for the reinstatement of the Ottoman Constitution. He welcomed the Young Turk movement and worked in Constantinople after 1914.
Even when the Ottoman Interior Ministry ordered that the Armenian intellectuals be deported, Aknuni stayed loyal to Talaat, the Interior Minister, saying, "It’s impossible! Talaat probably doesn’t know about it!"
Malumian was a victim of the Armenian Genocide.
