Gegham Ter-Karapetian
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Gegham Ter-Karapetian ({{langx|hy|Գեղամ Տեր-Կարապետեան}}) (1865-1918), better known by his pen name Msho Gegham (Մշոյ Գեղամ), was a writer and politician in the Ottoman Empire. He was ethnically Armenian.
Biography
Ter-Karapetian was born in 1865 in the village of Kheybian in Bitlis Vilayet, Ottoman Empire.{{cite web|title=Remember (list of Armenian Genocide victims)|url=http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/remember_armenian_genocide.php|publisher=Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute|accessdate=28 March 2013}}
He was a major writer of Western Armenian provincial literature.{{cite book|last=J. Hacikyan|first=Agop J. Hacikyan|title=The Heritage of Armenian Literature From The Eighteenth Century To Modern Times.|year=2005|publisher=Wayne State Univ Pr|location=Detroit|isbn=9780814332214|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GmtPLvnrc38C&q=msho&pg=PA565|accessdate=13 December 2012|page=565}}{{cite book|last=Kaligian|first=Dikran Mesrob|title=Armenian organization and ideology under Ottoman rule, 1908-1914|year=2011|publisher=Transaction Publishers|location=New Brunswick, N.J.|isbn=9781412842457|edition=Rev.}} He was also a respected journalist and statesman.{{cite book |last=Mouradian |first=George |year=1995 |publisher=Bookshelf Publishers |location=Southgate, Mich. |isbn=9780963450920 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PC1uAAAAMAAJ |edition=1st |title=Armenian infotext |accessdate=11 September 2013}}
Ter-Karapetian served as a deputy in the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
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