He became active in an armed struggle against the Ottoman government and Kurdish irregulars in the late 1880s . Andranik joined the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( Dashnaktustyun ) party and , along with other '' fedayi '' ( militias ) , sought to defend the Armenian peasantry living in their ancestral homeland , an area known as Western ( or Turkish ) Armeniaat the time part of the Ottoman Empire . His revolutionary activities ceased and he left the Ottoman Empire after the unsuccessful uprising in Sasun in 1904 . In 1907 , Andranik left Dashnaktustyun because he disapproved of its cooperation with the Young Turks , a party which years later perpetrated the Armenian Genocide . Between 1912 and 1913 , together with Garegin Nzhdeh , Andranik led a few hundred Armenian volunteers within the Bulgarian army against the Ottomans during the First Balkan War
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
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