In this book you will find the previously unheard story of thousands of Ottoman Armenians, a story which has not been touched even briefly in the voluminous literature on the history of the Armenians. This is the story of the Armenians who returned from their forced migration in Syria to their original hometowns in Anatolia between 1918 and 1920. A governmental decree issued in December 1918 ended the forced relocation of the Armenians and allowed them to return. Following this permission, a new phase of the forced migration began: a large number of the relocated Armenians, estimated to be around three hundred thousand, travelled back to their hometowns where they were resettled in their former homes, reunited with their women and children, their property restituted and their churches rebuilt…
In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the Armenian question, the return of the Armenians to Anatolia, a missing part of the Armenian history, requires considerably more attention and in-depth research. Studies made without considering the return will inevitably be lacking and will cause distortion of the truth.
