Armenians in Turkey after the Second World War

Talin Suciyan is Associate Professor (Privat Dozentin) of Turkish Studies at the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. She is the author of The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-genocide Society, Politics and History (I. B. Tauris, 2016),and Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces (2023).

Talin Suciyan reveals the multiple challenges linked to the Great Repatriation Campaign of 1945-46 to Soviet Armenia from the consular files of the Soviet embassy in Istanbul. She provides a fascinating account of the finally unsuccessful campaign that triggered an enormous wave of hope for escape from the unbearable living conditions among forcibly Islamized and non-Islamized Armenian survivors from the provinces and the capital of post-genocidal Turkey.

• PrefaceIntroductionHistorical BackgroundArmenians in TurkeyAbusive taxation and forced labor during WWIIArmenians in Turkey and the immigration campaignWhat do the Consular Reports and Records of Conversions tell us?Islamized Armenians Demographic data, the Turkish Press, and Anti-Armenianism ConclusionEnglish Translation of archival documentsBibliographyAppendix: Archival Documents in Russian and Armenian