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Syrian Armenians and the Turkish FactorKessab in the Syrian War

Syrian Armenians and the Turkish Factor: Kessab in the Syrian War [This chapter is about the role of geography and memory on the north-western post-Mandate contested border between Syria and Turkey. It concentrates on a specific event that took place in March 2014, in the border town of Kessab. The town was occupied by Turkish supported Turkmen militia and Salafi–jihadi groups, some of them deemed terrorist organizations by many Western countries. A few months later, the town was re-taken by the Syrian Army. The soldiers were seen by the Kessab Armenian community as “liberators”. Concurrently, the town was represented as being re-violated by what was depicted as an old enemy acting according to old methods reactivating old fears. While events will be narrated through eyewitness accounts and statements released by Armenian communities, emphasis will be put on the reproduction of previous occupations and upon border-related inveterate transnational informal links.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Syrian Armenians and the Turkish FactorKessab in the Syrian War

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-72318-7
Pages
209 –241
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-72319-4_7
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Abstract

[This chapter is about the role of geography and memory on the north-western post-Mandate contested border between Syria and Turkey. It concentrates on a specific event that took place in March 2014, in the border town of Kessab. The town was occupied by Turkish supported Turkmen militia and Salafi–jihadi groups, some of them deemed terrorist organizations by many Western countries. A few months later, the town was re-taken by the Syrian Army. The soldiers were seen by the Kessab Armenian community as “liberators”. Concurrently, the town was represented as being re-violated by what was depicted as an old enemy acting according to old methods reactivating old fears. While events will be narrated through eyewitness accounts and statements released by Armenian communities, emphasis will be put on the reproduction of previous occupations and upon border-related inveterate transnational informal links.]

Published: Oct 28, 2021

Keywords: Kessab; Contested borders; Informal practices; Musa Dagh; Syrian Turkmen; [Talant]; Vakef

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