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Cultural Erasure: The Absorption and Forced Conversion of Armenian Women and Children, 1915-1916

Ümit Kurt · 2016

Catalogue summary

Ottoman archival directives are used to reconstruct forced conversion and assimilation of Armenian women and children as organized components of the 1915 genocide.

Why this matters

The bureaucratic evidence shows why Islamization could function as coerced survival yet still fail to protect converts from deportation and killing.

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Published in

Études arméniennes contemporaines

Year

2016

Language

English

DOI

10.4000/eac.997

Citation

Ümit Kurt 2016. Cultural Erasure: The Absorption and Forced Conversion of Armenian Women and Children, 1915-1916. Études arméniennes contemporaines. https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.997

Topics

Armenian Genocide Gender, family, memory, and oral history Politics, law, diplomacy, and human rights

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