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My wife’s mother was Ardabazari and was a survivor of the Geocide and her husband came from Bilijek which is south of Ardabazar. Her name was Heranoush Semerjian married to a Gumuchian. In her late years before getting married she had lived in Istanbul where she went to school We thank you for your wonderful story on 100 years later: On the Road to Exile.
Thank you for this important report.
Thank you Aris for the historical work you are doing first in the Southern Marmara region of Turkey and then elsewhere. In an article posted in HURRIYET DAILY NEWS on November 3, 2013, Turks were digging for buried treasure in my father’s village of Keramet. It’s nestled on the banks of Iznik Lake in Bursa province. No where in the article is mentioned the deportations of the Kerametzis in 1915. Instead readers are told that the villagers left during the war of independence. The truth is far different: they were deported by cattle car from the station at Mekece. Kindly refer back to the “micro-history” I wrote about my father, “Deli Sarkis.” The book was published in 2014. There is an Armash connection. Archbishop Khoren Ashekian was born in Keramet in 1842. He became the dean of the Armash Monastery in 1872. Looking forward to your next adventures and wonderful photographs.
Sincerely,
Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut
I am very happy to read for the first time about the town of ISMIT, my father’s birthplace. His father(my grandfather) moved his fruit and vegetable business there in 1915 and remained until 1923 when the great exchanges of populations took place between Turkey and Greece.
It is amazing that such Old Buildings shows remains of the Armenian Culture.
Google “Chalice of Armash” recently a Chalice from 1820 from the Church of “The Evil Repelling Mother of God” has been found. It has been used in an Armenian Church Service for the first time in 100 years. The last people who took Communion were Martyred 100 years ago. Visit the Armenian Numismatic and Antiquities Society Face book page for more info.
Dear Aris, I just came across your fascinating writing. I had never before heard of Armash monastery, and found reference to it in Henry Shapiro’s new book The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the early Modern Ottoman Empire. I am a historian writing about Istanbul’s villages, and am curious to find out the fate of the Armenian’s in Alemdağ (also formerly called Ermeniköy) where, as you will know, the church remains, now as an again renovated mosque. Do you know the precise circumstances under which the Armenian population departed the village/were removed. Thanks for the help.
Dear Aris, I just came across your fascinating writing. I had never before heard of Armash monastery, and found reference to it in Henry Shapiro’s new book The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the early Modern Ottoman Empire. I am a historian writing about Istanbul’s villages, and am curious to find out the fate of the Armenians in Alemdağ (also formerly called Ermeniköy) where, as you will know, the church remains, now as an again renovated mosque. Do you know the precise circumstances under which the Armenian population departed the village/were removed. Thanks for the help.