Further information is in " The Crypto-Christians of the Pontos and Consul William Gifford Palgrave of Trebizond , " London : Valiorum Reprints , 1988 , from Peoples and Settlement in Anatolia and the Caucasus 800-1900 , by Anthony Bryer Crypto-Armenians are believed to represent at least two groups of Armenians living in modern Turkey . One has been Islamized under the threat of physical extermination particularly during Armenian pogroms in 1896 and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 . Representatives of a different , much smaller crypto-Armenian group live in separate villages inhabited by Turks and Kurds in Eastern Turkey ( on the territories of traditional Armenian homeland ) . This group differs from the above-mentioned " Islamized " type by the process and depth of Islamization
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Crypto-Christianity