Turkey’s Secret ‘Ancestry Codes’
Track Non-Muslim Minorities
By: Orhan Kemal Cengiz for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on August 8.
It all started when a mother in Istanbul tried to enroll her child at an Armenian school. Like so many other Armenians who wanted to save themselves from the 1915 massacre, this woman's family had converted to Islam. Now she wanted to assume the identity of her ancestors. She underwent baptism, and her identity card was changed to show she is a Christian.
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