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Accounts

Oral History

What written documents leave out, people often remember. Here we record the memories and accounts of people from Mezirme, stating who told each one and when.

Translated from the Turkish original.

The first accounts are being collected

They will be published here as narrators give their permission and recordings are transcribed.

How accounts are published

Every text in this section is marked as Oral account . An account is what the narrator remembers and how they interpret it; so that it is not confused with documented information, it is published with:

  • Narrator: name and, if they wish, year of birth or connection to the village
  • Date told: the day or period when the account was given
  • Recorded by: who listened and recorded it
  • Permission: how the narrator gave permission to publish

Accounts are transcribed without correction, in the narrator's own words. Hard-to-follow passages are explained in square brackets. If something in an account conflicts with another source, a note is added; the account itself is not changed.

Accounts are published in their original language (Turkish) to keep the narrator's own words. Titles and summaries are translated where available.