Dispatchment and Settlement: Discourses of Genocide

• The Application of Deportation and Settlement

  Prof. Dr. Hasan Babacan

  The law about the migration of Armenians known as the Deportation Law was prepared on 27 May 1915 with the initiations of the Internal Affairs Minister Talat Bey and decided by the Assembly of Ministers on 1 June and put into force.   The law was tried to be implemented in a period when the war…

• Forced Relocation from Yozgat

  Asst. Prof. Dr. Nejdet Bilgi

  One of the ways to prevent the topic of Armenian relocation from getting away from reality is to put forward the events in detail at the local level because such emigration and relocation procedures that were large-scale and that were carried out at an extraordinary time did not conclude the same way in each unit….

• Lives of the Immigrants

  Prof. Dr. Kemal Çiçek

  The Ottoman government’s precautions, policies, and helpful activities to make the negative life conditions of Armenian immigrants better have often been ignored. The matter in question has a great importance in terms of the 1915 discussions. This study handles the activities of the Ottoman government to improve the accommodation, eating and health conditions of Armenians…

• Women and Children During the Dispatch and Settlement

  Prof. Dr. İbrahim Ethem Atnur

  The changing of the concept of the front in the First World War and the expansion of clashes to wide areas brought about negative consequences for the civilian population. Undoubtedly, it is possible to say that women and children were the section of the society that had the experience of being victims the most in…

• The Dispatchment and Settlement Law and Practices About Armenian Orphans During the Armistice

  Prof. Dr. Tülay Alim Baran

  The war years, when the conditions become exceptional, are experienced in a feature negatively affecting all fields, especially social and economic issues. One of the results of war on the social structure is the fragmentation of families and especially children becoming victims in terms of negative health, eating and accommodation conditions, and emotional state. It…

• The Other Side of the Coin in the 1915 Events: Muslim Refugees

  Ass. Prof. Dr. Tuncay Öğün

  The year 1915 was a time when great civil losses took place in the Caucasia battlefront. All parts of the society: Muslim, Christian, Turkish, Armenian, Cherkes, Kurdish, Arab, villager, city-dweller, rich-poor, experienced extreme grievances. Hundreds of thousands of people living in Ottoman provinces in the border regions died because of the bloody assaults by guerrillas…

• Deportations and Turkish-Armenian Relations During and After The Soviet Regime From the Armenian Perspective

  Asst. Prof. Dr. Yıldız Deveci Bozkuş

  The 1915 Events have a special place and significance in Armenian collective memory. Armenian history course books present this process as the most dramatic and traumatic period. Just as it is in many national history narrations, the “us” image is put opposite the “other” image in Armenian history perception as well (8th Grade, 2007: 162-164…