Department Armenian-Ottoman relations

Under the rule of the Ottoman Empire for about 600 years, the Armenian people were subjected to national discrimination in all spheres of their activities, even to physical destruction. The history of the Ottoman Empire is part of the history of the Armenian people. Accordingly, the Ottoman and Turkic studies of the Armenian-Ottoman relations department cover the XIV-XX centuries. the period and the revelations of the falsification and denial of the present-day distortions of the history of the Armenian people in the Republic of Turkey.

At the heart of the study of the department are the questions related to the political, cultural, economic history, demography, identity, toponymy, and linguistic relations of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire. One of the important directions of the department is the examination of documents related to the Armenian Genocide. In particular, the department conducts research on the following issues:

• The study of the historical demography of Western Armenia, Cilicia, and other Armenian-inhabited provinces, by combining Armenian and foreign sources from Ottoman geographies (ﺘﺤﺮﻴ tahrir), yearbooks (ﺴﺍﻟﻨﺍﻤﮫ salname),
• Armenian states in Ottoman administrative divisions,
• The tax policy of the Ottoman Empire in Western Armenia, Cilicia, and other states inhabited by Armenians,
• The stages, methods, and consequences of the policy of forced Islamization of non-Turkish peoples in the Ottoman Empire,
• The Ottoman Army: structural features and development benchmark,
• The land confiscation policy of the Ottoman Empire,
• The ideology of Turkicism and its modern manifestations in the Republic of Turkey and Turkic-speaking states,
• Linguistic examination of the Armenian-Ghpcagh manuscripts kept at the Research Institute of Old Manuscripts of Matenadaran named after Mesrop Mashtots, Yerevan,
• Islamization policy of Hamshen Armenians, their distribution scope, identity, language status,
• Study of archival documents related to the Armenian question and the Armenian Genocide.