On 24 April 1915 , the day when the Armenian Genocide officially began , he was arrested and put on a train the next day together with 180 other Armenian notables and sent to the city of Çankırı in northern Central Anatolia , at a distance of some 300 miles . His good friend Turkish nationalist poet Mehmet Emin Yurdakul , the writer Halide Edip , and the U.S. ambassador Henry Morgenthau intervened with the government , and , by special orders from Talat Pasha , Komitas was dispatched back to the capital alongside eight other Armenians who had been deported . Grigoris Balakian 's '' Armenian Golgotha '' offers details of his deportation , during which Komitas suffered tremendously and was afflicted with traumatic neurosis . In one passage Balakian recounts how : In the autumn of 1916 , he was taken to a hospital in Constantinople , Hôpital de la paix , and then moved to Paris in 1919 , where he died in a psychiatric clinic in Villejuif in 1935 . Next year , his ashes were transferred to Yerevan and buried in the Pantheon that was named after him
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
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