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Eghisabet Sultanian with her friend Anazon Yaqubian in Zeytun – 1895-1896
Eghisabet Sultanian with her friend Anazon Yaqubian in Zeytun 1895-1896. They are holding Martini rifles. The photo was taken by a Western missionary during the Grand Uprising (Second Zeytun Resistance) from winter 1895-1896. The Armenians from Zeytun, fearing the prospect of massacre, took up arms to defend themselves from Ottoman troops. Eghisabet Sultanian is the…