During the Armenian Genocide, the Ottoman government carried out a policy of Islamization of the Armenian women and children, which also need to be considered in the context of genocide and regarded as one of its structural elements.
Forcibly Islamized Armenian women and children were saved physically, but were destroyed as an ethnic group.
Akunq.net published two Ottoman documents and their translations into Western Armenian telling about the Armenian orphans who had gathered in one of the buildings located near Ankara.
In the first document, the interior minister Taleat describes as inappropriate the fact that the Armenian children are in this building all together and instructs to disperse them within the Islamic organizations. The second document is the answer to this decree by the deputy governor of Ankara Atif, who reported some of the details about the number of Armenian women and children in these areas. He also said that the Armenian children are scattered around Islamic organizations.
The documents provided to Akunq.net were found in the Ottoman archives and translated into Western Armenian by American Armenian Gevorg Hakobyan.
