Armenians fighting against Turkey in Paris in the '68s. Tinkered mobilizations inscribed in a world history

The "1968s" in France were also years of Armenian struggle. Indeed, in the years following May 1968, the Armenian diaspora increasingly mobilized in the public arena against Turkish Holocaust denial. Because they are scattered throughout the world, Armenians are part of several spaces and are permeable to numerous chronologies. Analyzing the interlocking nature of these mobilizations, from the local to the global, enables us to grasp the bricolage of their identities - French, Armenian and diasporic - to propose other temporalities of struggles in France in the 1968s, and to reflect on their mutations, between horizons of emancipation and more identity-based struggles. The first part presents the methodology and sources used. The second part will outline their radicality in the first half of the 1970s, and the third part their diversification in the second half of the 1970s.

A CPGE teacher, Sophie-Zoé Toulajian defended in September 2024 a thesis entitled Les Arméniens dans la rue. Des mobilisations entre héritages, emprunts et réappropriations, 1970-1985, Paris, Lyon. She shows the role of street actions in the publicization of the Armenian question, the multi-affiliation of members of a diaspora, whose horizons are also turned towards the world, and the need to redefine the temporal scansions linked to the "68s" while struggles are in flux.