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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]
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.
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 Armenian Monastery on the island was called St. George or Sourp Kevork. [31] It was built in 1305 and expanded in 1621 and 1766. [31] During the Armenian genocide an upwards of 12,000 Armenian women and children, crossed to the isle over a period of three days while a few dozen men covered their retreat from Hamidiye regiments.
The Armenian diaspora is divided into two communities – those communities from Ottoman Armenia (or Western Armenia) and those communities which are from the former Soviet Union, independent Armenia and Iran (or Eastern Armenia). Armenians in Turkey, such as Hrant Dink, do not consider themselves a part of the Armenian Diaspora, since they ...
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 ...
The Church of St. Giragos (Saint Cyricus) [1] or Surp Giragos Church[2][3] is a historic Armenian Apostolic church in Diyarbakır, Turkey. It is the largest Armenian church in the Middle East. [4][5][6]: 214 The church was confiscated by the Turkish government in 2016. [5] The church was re-opened to the public on May 7, 2022, after renovations.
Armenian genocide survivors were Armenians in the Ottoman Empire who survived the genocide of 1915. After the end of World War I, many tried to return home to the Ottoman rump state, which later became Turkey. The Turkish nationalist movement saw the return of Armenian survivors as a mortal threat to its nationalist ambitions and the interests ...