Hunchak was the official organ of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party

Social Democrat Hunchakian Party

The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party , is the oldest of the Armenian political parties and was the first Socialist party in the Ottoman Empire and in Persia...

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It was founded by Avetis Nazarbekian

Avetis Nazarbekian

Avetis Nazarbekian , also known as Nazarbek or Lerents, was an Armenian poet, journalist, political activist and revolutionary, one of the founders of Social Democrat Hunchakian Party....

 and published in 1887-1915, 1935-1940, in France

France

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, Greece

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, Britain

United Kingdom

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 and USA. The main purpose of the paper was the propaganda of the Armenian national movement for the liberation, the resistance in Western Armenia

Western Armenia

Western Armenia is a term, primarily used by Armenians, to refer to Armenian-inhabited areas of the Armenian Highland that were part of the Ottoman Empire and now are part of the Republic of Turkey....

n regions. Hunchak also supported the ideology of social-democracy and worker's consolidation.