Talk:Sarkis Erganian

Armenian descent

When writing about an Ottoman who was of Armenian descent, according to the era s/he lived, under "Armenian" please make WL to either Armenians in Turkey or Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and not Armenia. As we all know, Armenia is an independent country and the cities these people were born (in this case Trabzon, in others Istanbul or Adana etc) are not cities in Armenia. These people may be of Armenian descent but this is not a valid reason to relate them to the country of Armenia, which, after a short period almost a hundred years ago, has become independent only in 1991. Please refer only people born in Armenia to Armenia. --E4024 (talk) 20:52, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

I think both "Ottoman" and "Armenian" should be mentioned in the article. The individual who laid the foundation for the modern Turkish nationalist narrative (Mustafa Kemal) was born in a city outside of modern Turkey and the Mustafa Kemal Atatürk article refers to him as "Ottoman and Turkish." I think the best descriptor for Erganian is "Ottoman Armenian" or "Ottoman-born Armenian-American." Your suggestion to disassociate Ottoman Armenian individuals from modern Armenia is further complicated by the fact that, following the genocide, many Ottoman Armenians escaped and moved to the territories of the modern Republic of Armenia (see Van-born Gurgen Mahari and Aghasi Khanjian, Kars-born Yeghishe Charents, Istanbul-born Zabel Yesayan, etc.) Of course, Russian/Soviet Armenia was not their only destination, and there were many other refugees who ended up in a variety of countries. JackalLantern (talk) 05:18, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

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