Yesayan was the only woman on the list of Armenian intellectuals targeted for arrest and deportation by the Ottoman Young Turk government on April 24 , 1915 . She was able to evade arrest and flee to Bulgaria and then to the Caucasus , where she worked with refugees documenting their eyewitness accounts of atrocities that had taken place during the Armenian Genocide
intellectuals targeted for arrest and deportation
Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915
Zabel Yesayan