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AFP: Turkey's Muslim Armenians come out of hiding

Turkey's Muslim Armenians come out of hiding

By Nicolas Cheviron (AFP) – 13 hours ago

TUNCELI, Turkey — They dropped their language and religion to survive after the 1915 genocide, but close to 100 years on Turkey's "hidden Armenians" want to take pride in their identity.

Some genocide survivors adopted Islam and blended in with the Kurds in eastern Turkey's Dersim mountains to avoid further persecution.

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