In the 1990s a small number of memoirs by the Armenian "left overs of the sword," or survivors of the death march of 1915 were published in Turkey. These narratives challenge what Fethiye Cetin, who authored the most celebrated of these texts called, a national policy of "forgetting," and they contradict notions of the homogeneous nation.This paper seeks to explore, with a gender perspective both the context and content of these texts. I am in particular interested in the questions of who is speaking for whom and to whom and what s/he is trying to accomplish by speaking. I am equally interested in exploring why these books could be published at that particular socio-political juncture in Turkish history. Finally the author examines the larger implications of the notion of Armenians organically being part of the Turkish nation.