Paper short abstract:

the Armenian genocide, a well-planned genocide was the Ottoman government's systematic destruction of defenseless and oppressed Armenians which led to a systematic campaign of genocidal sexual violence and other crimes against humanity that formed this genocide.

Paper long abstract:

Twentieth century has been a century of murders by states and non-states actors, death squads, party paramilitaries but mainly by states. the Armenian genocide, a well-planned genocide was the Ottoman government's systematic destruction of defenseless and oppressed Armenians which led to a systematic campaign of genocidal sexual violence and other crimes against humanity that formed this genocide.

This paper concentrates on a number of gendered patterns of destruction, other gendered crimes in the Armenian genocide and gendered characteristics of Turkish genocidal ideology.

This paper also intends to pay special attention to the memoirs of women to talk about the possibilities of narrativizing the sufferings of women during the Armenian genocide and also locates the way in which gendered violence gets institutionalized in Ottoman legal practices and how it reflected the state developmental policies.

Key Words: the Armenian Genocide, Gender, Violence, Ottoman Empire, Women.