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What happened to Armenian schools and teachers who remained in Turkey after the Armenian Genocide?
In this episode of Unfiltered History, Candidate of Historical Sciences Suren Manukyan welcomes historian Élodie Gavrilof, an associate researcher at CERCEC–EHESS and IFEA, a lecturer in modern and contemporary history at INALCO, and a research fellow at the Yerevan Center for International Education.
The conversation explores the reconstruction of Armenian education between 1918 and 1939, the fate of Armenian orphans and teachers, and the gradual restriction of minority schools under the emerging Turkish Republic.
How did the state control Armenian curricula, textbooks and teachers? Why were Armenian schools prohibited outside Istanbul after 1923? How was Armenian history erased from classrooms, and how did families and educators preserve language, memory and identity through literature and everyday acts of resistance?
The discussion also examines the continuity between the late Ottoman Empire and Kemalist Turkey, the gap between the minority rights promised by the Treaty of Lausanne and their implementation in practice, and the difficult position of Armenians who were neither fully included nor completely excluded from Turkish society.