Enslaved Armenian woman carrying thistles after the Armenian Genocide, Syria?, sometime after 1915
In the late fifteenth century, the royal Ottoman mosque complex of Bayezid II was built in Amasya, an important city in Ottoman Anatolia, directly beside a small medieval Armenian church, St. Nicholas. For centuries that followed, and until 1915, these two spaces coexisted, serving Amasya’s multi-confessional population. Today, the royal complex dominates both the cityscape and the architectural histories of the city. The Armenian church, by contrast, has disappeared: physically destroyed during the Armenian Genocide, it was soon erased from urban memory and excluded from subsequent scholarship on Amasya’s history and architecture.
On Feb 19, focusing on the case of St. Nicholas, the IFI's Dr. Polina Ivanova will give a talk at CEU examining what it means to construct the memory of an absence. It's accessible as a hybrid event: do join us for it!
#News #ArmenianGenocide #Coward
https://apnews.com/article/jd-vance-armenian-genocide-post-e467c5074b7d44062c2b0e181469faf4
U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s team posted and then deleted a message on social media about the Republican’s visit to a memorial paying tribute to early 20th century Armenians killed by the Ottoman Empire. The issue was the post using the term “Armenian genocide,” a designation the U.S. government historically has not used for what happened. The White House blamed a staff mistake.
Dr Karena Avedissian recently returned from a trip to conduct research and build ties with the #Armenian community in Northeast #Syria. We spoke about an article she wrote – Armenians in #Rojava: A quiet revolution – looking at the experiences of Islamized Armenians, descendants of survivors of the #ArmenianGenocide who were forcibly ‘assimilated’ during and after 1915.
https://fromtheperiphery.com/2025/07/30/syrias-islamized-armenians-w-karena-avedissian-e5/
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