SexViolHist Bib: Types: Genocidal Rape: Armenian Genocide

»The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children. (...)
On 24 April 1915, the Ottoman authorities arrested and deported hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and leaders from Constantinople. At the orders of Talaat Pasha, an estimated 800,000 to 1.2 million Armenians were sent on death marches to the Syrian Desert in 1915 and 1916. Driven forward by paramilitary escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to robbery, rape, and massacres. In the Syrian Desert, the survivors were dispersed into concentration camps. In 1916, another wave of massacres was ordered, leaving about 200,000 deportees alive by the end of the year. Around 100,000 to 200,000 Armenian women and children were forcibly converted to Islam and integrated into Muslim households. Massacres and ethnic cleansing of Armenian survivors continued through the Turkish War of Independence after World War I, carried out by Turkish nationalists.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century

II. Geographical Index: Asian History: Turkish History

III. Topical Index: -

B i b l i o g r a p h y

Representations: Films: Ravished Armenia

I. Author Index

[Info] Aleksanyan, Anna. The Gender Issue. The Dilemma of Re-Armenization of the Women After the Genocide. ??????????????? ???????? No. 5 (2014): 62-73.

[Info] Bell, Kristin A. Victims' Voices: Sexual Violence in the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides. Ph.D. Thesis, Northeastern University, 2014.

[Info] Bj rnlund, Matthias. A Fate Worse Than Dying : Sexual Violence during the Armenian Genocide. Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe s Twentieth Century. Edited by Dagmar Herzog. Basingstoke 2009: 16-58.

[Info] Derderian, Katharine. Common Fate, Different Experience: Gender-Specific Aspects of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917. Holocaust and Genocide Studies 19 (2005): 1-25.

[Info] Edgren, Monika. Sexuellt v ld i vittnessber ttelser om massakern p armenier 1915-1916. Scandia 78 (1997): 87-117.

[Info] Ekmekcioglu, Lerna. A Climate for Abduction, a Climate for Redemption: The Politics of Inclusion during and after the Armenian Genocide. Comparative Studies in Society and History 55 (2013): 522-553.

[Info] Ekmekcioglu, Lerna. Arevankumi yev Azadakrumi Mtnolord: Gineru yev Manugneru Nerkravman Kaghakaganutyune Hayots Tseghasbanutyan Entatskin U Ange Yedk. Haykazian Hayagitakan Handes 35 (2015): 327-374.

[Info] Kennedy, Ellen J. Women and Genocide: Ending Impunity for Sexual Violence. Alleviating World Suffering: The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life. Edited byRonald E. Anderson. Cham 2017: 319-334.

[Info] Morris, Benny. Collective Sexual Violence in Turkey, 1894 1924: What we know and how we know it. Law and History Review (August 18, 2025).

[Info] Nabti, Najwa. Legacy of Impunity: Sexual Violence against Armenian Women and Girls during the Genocide. The Armenian Genocide Legacy. Edited by Alexis Demirdjian. Houndsmills 2016: 118-133.

[Info] Tachjian, Vah . Gender, nationalism, exclusion: The reintegration process of female survivors of the Armenian genocide. Nations and Nationalism 15 (2009): 60-80.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Aleksanyan, Anna. Ritualized Rapes and Body Destruction of the Armenian Women during the Genocide. 42^nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Armenian Studies. Boston 2016.

[Info] Aleksanyan, Anna. Ritualized Rapes and Body Destruction of the Armenian Women during the Genocide. War and Sexual Violence. New York 2016.

[Info] Ekmekcioglu, Lerna. Approaching the Unfortunate Sister and Her Child: Sexual Violence as a Boundary Maker during and after the Armenian Genocide. 35^th Anniversary Conference of the Society for Armenian Studies. Los Angeles 2009.

[Info] Ekmekcioglu, Lerna. To Collect Is to Recollect: Sexualized Violence in the First Survivor Testimonies after the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Beyond Testimony and Trauma: Oral History in the Aftermath of Mass Violence. Montr al 2012.

[Info] Ekmek io?lu, Lerna. Historical Discourses of Muslim rape of Christian women. World War I and the Arts: Sound, Vision, Psyche. Cincinnati 2014.

[Info] Ekmek io?lu, Lerna. K?z Ka ?rma ve K?z Kurtarma: Birinci D nya Sava?? S?ras?nda ve M tareke Y?llar?nda ?stanbul da Ermenilik ve M sl manl?k. Toplum ve Bilim No. 129 (2014): 223-255.

[Info] Ekmek io?lu, Lerna. Sexual Trauma and the Armenian Genocide. World War I and the Arts: Sound, Vision, Psyche. Cincinnati 2014.

[Info] Jinks, Rebecca, et al. Breaking the Silence: Gender and Genocide. The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide. London 2017.

[Info] Pet?, Andrea. Breaking Gendered Silences: Lessons Learned from the Holocaust in Hungary and the Armenian Genocide. Gender, Memory and Genocide: An International Conference Marking 100 Years Since the Armenian Genocide. Berlin 2016.