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Scholarly and testimonial evidence from Armenian, English, French, German, and Turkish sources document the gendered ways by which the Ottoman Empire utilized mandatory military service — conscription — as a tool to carry out genocide during the First World War. Recruitment and deployment policies empowered Ottoman conscripts to commit crimes while simultaneously authorizing the capture and destruction of Armenian men and boys. Given the obfuscations that arose amid the war’s normalized carnage, it is crucial to note that the intent to destroy and the method of capture that Ottoman perpetrators used existed prior to the demise of their targets. Due to the empire’s gendered necropolitical exploitation of Armenians, combined with the precedent of the draft as a way to raise armed forces, assemble forced labourers, and punish men deemed insubordinate to imperial leaders, the era’s mass loss of life continues to offer some observers a way to erroneously excuse and deny this case of genocide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article offers a general overview of Armenian-language historiography on the Armenian diaspora and communities, and issues of production, dissemination and reception. It includes interviews with Antranik Dakessian (Armenian Diaspora Research Center, Beirut), Mikael Nichanian (BnF, Paris) and Adrineh Zinali (Bulac, Paris).

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Ever since Murathan Mungan placed his hometown of Mardin at the heart of his literary works at the beginning of the 1980s, many writers from Turkey Kurdistan have in turn, and in a manner that has become increasingly evident in the last few years, integrated the region into their works. Denied legal existence, this “absent place” so described by Şener Özmen, has claimed a presence in literary space despite stringent historical realities, including the ban on the Kurdish language and culture and the negation of the Armenian genocide. This article discusses the relationships between language and territory in the works of writers such as Murat Özyaşar or Ayhan Geçgin, the venture on mythography of space in the works of authors such as Mungan, Özyaşar, Özmen or Kemal Varol, and treatment of borders, cities and mountains as geographemes.

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This article discusses the networks of colonial merchants in Mediterranean port cities during the modern era. It examines the variations in Mediterranean economic trade that exist in a network which is unified by commercial interest but that contains broad cultural diversity. The article examines the "Choffelins," who are people who come from New-Djoulfa, a mostly Armenian suburb of Ispahan in modern day Iran, during the final third of the seventeenth century. The interaction between economic and social exchanges is discussed.

The article discusses the collective identity of Armenian immigrants in Egypt through a study of national registers in the 19th century. It describes the Egyptian government's community administration and its development of a national registry system to track immigrants settling in Egypt, along with the recording of immigrants' baptisms, marriages, and burials. The process of adding social relationships such as family members, co-workers, or friends to an individual's registry is discussed in relation to the ways legal documents defined the group identity of Armenian immigrants.

The article discusses "twentyvoices.com," a Web site that provides twenty testimonials of survivors of the Armenian genocide. The author mentions the social sciences research into the ways that the Internet is a unique environment that allows for new social and identity constructions and the creation of virtual communities. However, the author believes that research into the Internet has neglected the ways that this medium contributes to collective memory.

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