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Legally Armenian: Tolerance, Conversion, and Name Change in Turkish Courts
Ceren Özgül · 2014
Catalogue summary
Özgül examines Turkish court petitions by Muslim citizens of Armenian descent seeking changes to registered names and religions, revealing tensions between conversion, tolerance, and legal identity.
Why this matters
The cases show how hidden or recovered Armenian ancestry encounters state categories in everyday legal practice.
Published in
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Year
2014
Language
English
Citation
Ceren Özgül 2014. Legally Armenian: Tolerance, Conversion, and Name Change in Turkish Courts. Comparative Studies in Society and History. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417514000279
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