Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey

241 Pages·2016·12.31 MB·English

by  Lerna Ekmekçioğlu

RECOVERING ARMENIA

RECOVERING ARMENIA
The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey
LERNA EKMEKÇIOĞLU
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
2016
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Ekmekçioglu, Lerna, - author.
Recovering Armenia : the limits of belonging in post-genocide Turkey / Lerna Ekmekçioglu.
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For my mother, Röne,
Who
Made
Everything
Possible
&
For my daughters, Zepure and Zulal,
for every minute that they had to share me with this book.
You are all part of it.

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Afterlife of Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey:
1
An Introduction
1 21
The Rebirth of a Nation
2 53
Can Feminists Revive a Nation?
3 81
An Exodus and Its Aftermath
4 101
A Tamed Minority
5 131
Can Armenian Feminism Survive the New Turkey?
When History Became Destiny:
159
A Conclusion
165
Notes
207
Index

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1 1920
Figure . Hayganush Mark and Vahan Toshigian in xviii
2 3
Figure . Map of Armenia and Turkey
3 20
Figure . Armenian Children Defending Their Fatherland
4 25
Figure . Haydar Pasha Refugee Station
5 31
Figure . Hay Gin’s Pretty Baby Contest
6 36
Figure . Orphans at the Armenian Red Cross Dispensary in Pera
7 37
Figure . Armenian Red Cross Scutari Branch Shelter
8 39
Figure . Armenian Red Cross Şişli Branch Hospital
9 44
Figure . A Marriage from the Kalfayan Orphanage
10 48
Figure . The Little Army Against Disease
11 52
Figure . Hayganush Mark as a Suffragette
12 61
Figure . Writers for Hay Gin
13 1910 63
Figure . Hayganush Mark in
14 65
Figure . Cover Page of Hay Gin
15 73
Figure . Takuhi Kalantar and Her Harvest of Students
16 80
Figure . Bishop Kevork Aslanian and His Grandchildren
17 100
Figure . Cover Page of the Armenian National Hospital’s Almanac