Abstract
Eyewitness-survivor Mkrtich Avetyan’s memoir is about the peaceful life of Armenians of Smyrna, rooting of enmity against them, violence, and exile. Mkrtich Avetyan was drafted into the army and sent to Constantinople as an artisan at the beginning of World War I. Avetyan decided to move his family from Denizli to Smyrna because the Turkish sentiments towards the Armenians had been sharply deteriorated. A week before the invasion of Smyrna by the Kemalist army, Mkrtich Avetyan, together with 20 other families, arrived in Mitilini (Greece) from Smyrna, having paid 190 Ottoman gold liras. Mkrtich Avetyan wrote his memoirs in Aleppo in 1965 at the age of 93.
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