EXPLORING THE (UN)USUAL “SITES OF MEMORY”: ARMENIAN-SCRIPT TURKISH MEMOIRS
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https://doi.org/10.46991/jos.2024.26.2.156Keywords:
Armeno-Turkish, Memoirs, Places of Memory, Armenian GenocideAbstract
The entanglement of nations, religions, and languages, which is inevitable in any empire, leads to the minglings of cultures and worldviews, creating new, mixed, or intermediate forms. Armenian-script Turkish, which combines elements of both languages is an example of such a symbiosis. The purpose of this article is to present the memoirs written in Armenian-script Turkish by two eyewitnesses of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The diaries under study recall the stories of two families who lived in Aintab (Antep) and Dörtyol (Arm. Chork-Marzpan) before the genocide. The tragic fate of these people, forcibly displaced during World War I, reflects the harrowing history of an entire nation that endured deportation, starvation, and massacres.
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