Longing for Home at Home.

By focusing on the narratives of the Armenians in Istanbul in relation to the place they call "home," this article talks about the lived experience of Armenianness in Turkey. Although many Armenians in Istanbul think that they have never left their homelands, not only the memory of the violent annihilation of the Armenian presence in Anatolia and the displacement of Armenians from their homelands, but also the current nationalist identity politics in Turkey which disrupts Armenians' ties with their cultural heritage and silences their memories, make them feel displaced in their home today. Thus, this article attempts to go beyond the mutually exclusive definitions of belonging and displacement by discussing the limits of the concept of diaspora in relation to the experience of being a "minority" at home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]