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Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. v. t. e. Hidden Armenians (Armenian: թաքնված հայեր, romanized: t’ak’nvats hayer; Turkish: Gizli Ermeniler) or crypto-Armenians (Kripto Ermeniler) [1] is an umbrella term to describe Turkish citizens hiding their full or partial Armenian ancestry from the larger Turkish society. [2]
t. e. Armenians in Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Ermenileri; Armenian: Թուրքահայեր or Թրքահայեր, T’urk’ahayer lit. 'Turkish Armenians'), one of the indigenous peoples of Turkey, have an estimated population of 40,000 [5] to 50,000 [6] today, down from a population of over 2 million Armenians between the years 1914 and 1921.
Arat Dink (born 1979), son of Hrant Dink, editor of Agos; Hrant Dink (1954–2007), former editor of the weekly Agos; Vartan İhmalian [] (1913–1987), writer; Hrand Nazariantz (1880–1962), journalist and poet
Several civilian officials, mostly Young Turks, opposed the genocide and sometimes went as far as saving Armenians.One such case is Hasan Mazhar, the governor (vali) of Ankara, who refused to participate in the genocide, was dismissed, and later returned to lead the Istanbul trials that sentenced the most obvious culprits of the genocide to death. [2]
—President of the Anatolia College in Mersovan, Dr. George E. White The impact of these laws were immediate. According to a report in June 1916 by the German ambassador stationed in Constantinople, the goods of the Armenians "have long since been confiscated, and their capital has been liquidated by a so-called commission, which means that if an Armenian owned a house valued at, say, £T100 ...
The Hemshin people (Armenian: Համշենցիներ, Hamshentsiner; Turkish: Hemşinliler), also known as Hemshinli or Hamshenis or Homshetsi, [6] [7] [8] are a bilingual [9] small group of Armenians who practice Sunni Islam after they had been converted from Christianity in the beginning of the 18th century [10] and are affiliated with the Hemşin and Çamlıhemşin districts in the province ...
The eastern part of the current territory of the Republic of Turkey is part of the ancestral homeland of the Armenians. [4] Along with the Armenian population, during and after the Armenian genocide the Armenian cultural heritage was targeted for destruction by the Turkish government. Of the several thousand churches and monasteries (usually ...
Musa Dagh (Turkish: Musa Dağı; Armenian: Մուսա լեռ, romanized: Musa leṛ; [2] Arabic: جبل موسى, romanized: Jebel Musa; meaning " Moses Mountain") is a mountain in the Hatay Province of Turkey. In 1915, it was the location of a successful Armenian resistance to the Armenian genocide, an event that inspired Franz Werfel to write ...