Siamanto came from a middle-upper-class family . They moved to Constantinople ( Istanbul ) in 1891 where he continued his studies at the Berberian institute . He graduated in 1896 , during the bloody Hamidian massacres . Like many other Armenian intellectuals , he fled the country for fear of persecution . He ended up in Egypt where he became depressed because of the butchery that his fellow Armenians had to endure
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Siamanto