Identités meurtries : les changements de noms des Arméniens (original) (raw)

Revue des sciences sociales de la France de l'Est, 1999

Abstract

Wounded identities : Name changes of Armenians Genocide and exile have tragically left their marks on the fate of the Armenians, even on their names. The survivors of the 1915 slaughters who remained in Turkey were forced to ”turkify” their surnames in 1934, at the time when the country’s civil status was being established ; this authoritarian measure was meant to put the finishing touches to the totalitarian initiative to destroy men and identities. Some of those Armenians - or their children - who came to France preferred to ”frenchify” those mutilated names which they did not want to pass on. More recently, in the second generation, people with Armenian names changed them into French ones.

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