CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Onen, Idil |
|---|---|
| Title | Truth or Fiction: Armenian Officer's Memoirs in the Turkish Historiography |
| Summary | The aim of my research is to analyze the position of Armenian officers in the Ottoman Army between 1909-1919. In order to do so, I will examine the memoirs of the Armenian officers Kalusd Sürmenyan, who wrote a part of his book on his hometown Erzincan/(Yerzinga in Armenian) in 1947, and Sarkis Torosyan, who published his memoirs in the Unites States of America in 1947. To accomplish the analysis of these historical texts and their context, the two research questions will direct my study: first, deals with how these officers were seen and remembered by Turkish historiography, either through their treatment or their erasure, while the second attempts to re-consider the end of the Ottoman empire turning to these two army officers themselves and expressing their memories and experiences. In addition, I will use non-Muslim retirement, medal and appointment documents which placed in the Ottoman Prime Minister archives to build better argumentation regarding discrimination argument. |
| Supervisor | Al-Bagdadi, Nadia; Wilson, Brett |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/onen_idil.pdf |
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