 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Bagradian anozviona semugari akavimbika weOttoman Empire, kunyange muridzi wenyika, achidzivisa mapato eArmenian akasimba zvikuru, akadai semaHunchaks ehurumende. Akanga ashanda somukuru mukuru wemauto muHondo yeBalkan ya1912, akanga apinda mubato rinofambira mberi rezvematongerwo enyika yeTurkey uye akanga ari mutsigiri wechiArmenian weCUP uye Young Turk Revolution ya1908. Sezvo ari mukuru wevarwi, Bagradian anotanga kusava nechokwadi kana asina kunzi aende kuhondo; kuziva kuti zviremera zveTurkey zvakatora mapasipoti omunyika yevagari vemuArmenia kunowedzera kusava nechokwadi kwake. Naizvozvo anoenda kuguta guru reruwa reAntiokia zvino Antakya, kunobvunza pamusoro pomugariro wake wechiuto. Ari mubhavhu reTurkey, anonzwa boka revaTurkey, pakati pavo gavhuna weruwa, Kaimikam, vachikurukura hurongwa hwehurumende huru hwokuita chimwe chinhu pamusoro pechinetso chayo cheArmenian. Bagradian anovhundutswa nezvaanonzwa uye nengozi yacho, achifunga nezvenhoroondo yeutsinye hwakaitirwa vaArmenia, avo vakasimuka kuva nyanzvi dzepamusoro dzeumambo uye veboka revatengesi vakanga vavhundutsa varudzi veTurkey. Ngozi iyo ikoku kunomutsa kumhuri yake inosimbiswa neshamwari yekare yemhuri yeBagradian, Agha Rifaat Bereket, dervish akazvipira Sufi Muslim ascetic uyo anoona vechiduku veTurkey sevakaramba kutenda. 