< ! -- Deleted image removed : Makhluto was present throughout most of the major battles that took place in the Van-Taron region in the 1890s . He fought along with other feedayis such as Kevork Chavoush , Andranik Pasha , Keri , and Murad of Sebastia . During the Hamidian massacres of the Armenians in 1894-1896 , Makhluto joined Andranik Pasha in mounting armed attacks against the Ottoman army and Ottoman Kurdish raiders to defend Armenian citizens under persecution . Makhluto also took up arms during the Sasun Uprising . After the Sassoun resistance , Andranik , Kevork Chavush , Sebastatsi Murad , and Makhluto , with another 200 fighters , went to Van . The Feedayis took positions on Akhtamar Island . The Turks discovered their whereabouts and sent several ships with heavy weaponry to capture and kill them . They successfully defeated the Turkish attacks . In the aftermath , the feedayis decided to split . One group went to Sassoun with Kevork Chavush , and the other group to the Caucuses via the Persian border with Andranik Pasha . In 1907 , Makhluto was present during the Battle of Sulukh in which Kevork Chavoush was killed . In 1908 , he was involved in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution with Yeprem Khan . In 1914 , during the outskirts of World War I , Makhluto became General Andranik 's feedayee commander in the Caucasus Campaign
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
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