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The Grandchildren: The Hidden Legacy of 'Lost' Armenians in Turkey. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1412853910. "Turkey's hidden Armenians search for stolen identity". France 24. 21 April 2015. Kurt, Ümit (2016). "Cultural Erasure: The Absorption and Forced Conversion of Armenian Women and Children, 1915-1916". Études arméniennes ...
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.
Rescue of Armenians during the Armenian genocide. During World War I and until 1923, individuals and groups aided (or attempted to aid) Armenians in escaping the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Young Turk government and later by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Since the end of the USSR and the independence of Armenia, research has increasingly ...
The Armenian diaspora refers to the communities of Armenians outside Armenia and other locations where Armenians are considered an indigenous population. Since antiquity, Armenians have established communities in many regions throughout the world. However, the modern Armenian diaspora was largely formed as a result of World War I, when the ...
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 ...
—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 ...
Since the early Medieval period, many Armenians have lived as diaspora, due to foreign invasions of Armenia, national and religious persecution, genocide and wars. Most of the present-day Armenian diaspora in the North Caucasus arrived in the 17th and 18th centuries, though the first Hemshin Armenians arrived in the 8th century. [6]: 71
Turks of South Carolina. The Turks of South Carolina, also known as Sumter Turks or Turks of Sumter County, [1] are a group of people who have lived in the general area of Sumter County, South Carolina since the late 18th century. According to Professor Glen Browder, "they have always been a tight-knit and isolated community of people who ...