Editor

Emre Ayvaz, İlkay Baliç, Altuğ Yılmaz

Languages

Turkish

1st edition - October 2013
320 Page
45 TL

The Mardin Papers is comprised of articles tackling all dimensions of the social and economic transformations which took place in the one hundred year period spanning from 1838-1938 in Mardin, the cradle of numerous religions, languages and cultures and one of the most cosmopolitan regions of Anatolia.

Starting from the Reform Era to the first 15 years of the Republic's single party rule, it discusses how state policies and general conjuncture along the axis of culture, daily life, economy, ethnic and religious conflict and violence affected the region. 

The civilization of Mardin and its surroundings, dating back thousands of years and distilled through centuries, had created a pluralistic culture. The liveliest expressions and how this pluralist culture, only the dregs of which remain today, was lost can be found in the Mardin Papers.

Many peoples, many languages, many cultures disappeared from these lands together with their neighbourhoods and as the lost neighbourhoods continued to increase in number, these lands which are the cradle of civilizations became barren and abundance, love and joy also disappeared.
As the languages diminished, life became quieter. These meetings, these gatherings are efforts to break the silence. 
Rakel Dink, welcome address

Book name
Mardin Tebliğleri
Sub heading
Mardin ve Çevresi Toplumsal ve Ekonomik Tarihi Konferansı
ISBN
9786058657069
Price
225 TL
Pages
320
Width
150 mm
Height
240 mm
Weight
434 gr
Edition
1st edition - October 2013
Language
Turkish
Author
Collective
History conferences
series editor
Cengiz Aktar
Editor

Emre Ayvaz, İlkay Baliç, Altuğ Yılmaz
Series design
Sarp Sözdinler, BEK
Design consultancy
BEK Tasarım ve Danışmanlık
Printing
Mas Matbaacılık

This book contains the papers presented at the conference “The Social and Economic History of Mardin and the Region” organized by the Hrant Dink Foundation in 2012 and held in Mardin.

This project has been realized in collaboration with Mardin Medical Association, the Mardin Bar, Mardin Kamer, Mardin Cinema Association and Turabdin Syriac Culture and Solidarity Association and supported by the Chrest Foundation and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

  • Welcome Address
    Rakel Dink
  • Opening Speeches
    Cengiz Aktar
    Evgil Türker
  • The View from the roofs: What everyone in Mardin could see in 1915
    David Gaunt
  • Part I: General Panorama of Mardin and its Surroundings
    • Looking at the Social and Economic History of Mardin and its Periphery from 1873 Vienna Universal Exposition
      Cafer Sarıkaya
    • Traditional Houses of Mardin 
      E. Füsun Alioğlu
  • Part II: Ethnic Variety of the Region
    • Dom: The Lost Tribe
      Ramazan Turgut
    • The Mıhallemies : Mystery of Turabdin History
      Mehmet Ali Aslan
    • Disappointing Encounters: Arisdages Devgants and his Report on Siirt, 1878
      Ara Sarafian
    • Memory and Life: Cases from Oral History of Turabdin Syriacs
      Abdurrahim Özmen
  • Part III: Interferences in the Region: Emergence of Nationalisms 
    • The American Protestant Missionaries and their Institutions in Mardin
      Elçin Macar
    • Women Missionaries, Syriacs and Armenians in Mardin
      Eden Naby
    • Mardin and its People between mid-19th Century and end of WWI: Relations of Foreign Missionaries and Inhabitants
      Michael Abdalla
    • Tribes and Christians in Tur Abdin After the Constitutional Era: A History of  Common Life, Competition and Oppression
      Suavi Aydın
    • St. Barsauma's Narrative on Syriacs
      Andrew Palmer
    • The Ethnic Identity and National Renaissance of the Eski Süryanis
      Nineb Lamassu
    • Germans in the Mardin Region: Germany's Orient Mission, the Bagdad Railway and Encounters in the Context of WWI
      Martin Tamcke
  • Part IV: Violence, Pogrom and Genocide in Mardin 
    • Syriac Orthodox Church Leadership during the Transition Period (1918- 1926) and the Removal of the Patriarchate from Turkey
      Naures Atto & Soner Önder
    • Yezidi Tribes and Urban Elites: The CUP'S First Massacre
      Hilmar Kaiser
    • Syriac and Armenian: A Common Fate in 1915
      Raymond Kévorkian
    • Nestorians and the 1924 Nestorian Deportation
      Tuma Çelik
  • Part V: Post-traumatic Survival
    • Grandchildren in Mardin : Remembering Islamized Armenians 
      Ayşe Gül Altınay
    • Haunting Memories of Armenian Roots: Construction of Muslim Armenian Identity in the post-1915 Era
      Ramazan Aras
    • Some testimonies of
      Armenian and Syriac Genocide Survivors: Mardin 1915
      Ishkhan Chiftjian
    • The View From Exile: Assyrian Emigrants, the Late Ottoman and Early Republic Era 
      Aryo Makko
    • Oral History in Derik 
      Lokman Sazan
  • About the Authors
  • Index