From Çorlu to the Syrian Desert and Back
From Çorlu to the Syrian Desert and Back

A Young Armenian’s Experience Between 1914 and 1918

Summary/Abstract: This text aims to present and analyse how one young Armenian experienced the ups and downs of everyday life at the time of his deportation and the massacres of World War I. The discussion revolves around the memoirs of Yerimya Artin Kevorkyan (written in 1960 in Bulgaria, in Turkish, using the Armenian alphabet). Approaching the narrative from the point of view of practice theory, I seek to show how one young man of Armenian origin did not plan his actions according to explicit rational and economic criteria but instead followed an implicit practical logic.

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