"The ‘Remnants’ of Ottoman War Crimes Tribunals in Allied Occupied Istanbul (1918-23),”

The Ottoman Extraordinary Military Tribunals (Divân-ı Harb-i Örfî) for war crimes against Armenian civilians convened in 1919-20 during the Allied occupation of Istanbul. Remaining fragments of the trial documents trace the survival of "remnants" (orphans, children, and women) of the Armenian genocide. The representation of the remnant enables a point of critical intervention, a narrative and embodied point of view on how state violence eliminates testimony. The erasure of the legal archive in Turkish nationalist historiography reveals mutually sustaining operations of genocidal and epistemic violence.

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