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Halide Edip and the Turkification of Armenian Children: Enigmas, Problems and Questions
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Armenian genocide ; Political science ; Sociology ; Literature ; Law
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Djemal Pasha ; Halidé Edip ; Adnan Adıvar ; Antoura orphanage ; Armenian orphans ; Islamisation ; eugenics
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It is a well-known fact that the Islamisation of Christian children in the Ottoman Empire has a long history. In the great majority of cases Islamisation was carried out forcibly, accompanied by the erasure of a child’s ethnic-religious identity for those who remembered it and totally hiding their ethnic roots and religious affi liation from those who didn’t. The whole process of cultivating a new identity and character was a matter of time and of contested methods. This article identifi es a problem area, raising questions and analyzing the role of Turkish intellectual Halidé Edip in the state policy of Turkifi cation of Armenian children at the Antoura orphanage during the Armenian Genocide. It draws comparisons between the three memoirs of Armenian orphans from that orphanage that are known to date, those of Garnik Banean (Karnig Panian as written in his English language memoir), Harutyun Alboyajyan, and Melgon Petrosean and that written by Halidé Edip. As a result, certain essential differences, ploys, as well as facts disguised by Edip have been collected and presented in this article. Therefore, the research carried out identifi es the problems areas relating to various aspects of the Antoura orphanage by raising new questions, offering explanations and new approaches as well as highlighting issues that need to be researched further.
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Երևան
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ՀՀ ԳԱԱ Հայոց ցեղասպանության թանգարան-ինստիտուտ