Villagers speak to each other in a local Armenian dialect, known as Moses Mountain Armenian, which is diluted with Arabic and Turkish words.
Turkey is overwhelmingly Muslim but hosts some ancient Christian communities – dwindling remnants of sizeable populations that lived in the Muslim-led but multi-ethnic, multi-faith Ottoman Empire, predecessor to modern Turkey.
Turkey accepts that many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were killed in clashes with Ottoman forces during World War One, but contests the figures and denies it was systematic. Armen Hergel, 64, said she has got used to living in the teahouse, which has a small generator and which she dubbed ‘the Hilton’, but the power outage in the village was a real problem.Article content
She was visiting her daughter in Istanbul when the first two quakes struck. She returned to Vakifli to tidy up.
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