Međutim, njegovih 135 stanovnika imaju poseban razlog za održavanje svoje majušne zajednice u životu: to je zadnje armensko selo u Turskoj koje je preživjelo razorne masakre tokom Prvog svjetskog rata u kojima je pobijeno čak 1,5 miliona Armenaca.
But its 135 inhabitants have a special reason to keep their tiny community alive: theirs is the last Armenian village in Turkey to survive the devastating massacres during World War One in which as many as 1.5 million Armenians were killed.