Armenian genocide: Difference between revisions

| type = [[Genocide]], [[Deportation|expulsion]], [[death march]], [[Hiddencultural Armenians|forcedassimilation islamisation]], [[ethnic cleansing]]

IslamizationCultural assimilation of Armenians was carried out as a systematic state policy involving the bureaucracy, police, judiciary, and clergy and was a major structural component of the genocide.{{sfn|Akçam|2012|pp=314, 316}}{{sfn|Kurt|2016|loc=abstract, Conversion Experience of an Armenian Survivor: Krikor Bogharian’s Story}} An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Armenians were Islamized.{{sfn|Akçam|2012|p=331}} Some Armenians were allowed to convert to Islam and evade deportation, but where their numbers exceeded the 5 to 10 percent threshold, or where there was a risk of their being able to preserve their nationality and culture, the regime insisted on their physical destruction.{{sfn|Akçam|2012|pp=290–291}} Talaat Pasha personally authorized conversion of Armenians and carefully tracked the loyalty of converted Armenians until the end of the war.{{sfn|Kurt|2016|loc=Religious Conversion as a Bureaucratic Process}} Although the first and most important step was conversion to Islam, the process also required the eradication of [[Armenian name]]s, [[Armenian language|language]], and [[Armenian culture|culture]], and for women, immediate marriage to a Muslim man.{{sfn|Kurt|2016|loc=The Mechanics of Absorption: Disappearance of Armenian National and Cultural Identity}} Although Islamization was the most feasible opportunity for survival, it also transgressed Armenian moral and social norms.{{sfn|Kurt|2016|loc=Religious Conversion as a Bureaucratic Process}}