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Scholarship on the Armenian Genocide as a gendered event and process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 December 2015

Lerna Ekmekçioğlu
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu*
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Department of HistoryMassachusetts Institute of Technology
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 53 , November 2015 , pp. 185 - 190
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7 The first one was Can, Serdar, Nenemin Masalları (İstanbul: Umut, 1991)Google Scholar.

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17 For example, Osmanlı Belgelerinde Ermeniler, 1915–1920 (Ankara: T. C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü Osmanlı Arşivi Daire Başkanlığı, 1994).

18 This is exactly the position of the author in this book: Atnur, İbrahim Ethem, Türkiye’de Ermeni Kadınları ve Çocukları Meselesi, 1915–1923 (Ankara: Babil, 2005)Google Scholar.

19 In December 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Article II defines the genocide as “the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. See https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%2078/volume-78-I-1021-English.pdf