Scholarly works, think tank reports, and artistic explorations on the Armenia-Turkey border have emerged in fits and bursts—often coinciding with discussions on the normalization of relations between the two countries—ever since Ankara shut its border with the post-Soviet republic three decades ago. And while works on the border’s diplomatic history, civil society initiatives, and exhibits abound, less attention has been paid to how the history of restrictions and oppression has impacted the lives of people on both sides of the border, and how Armenians, Kurds, and others have resisted it. By focusing on the Ararat rebellion in Turkey (1930) and Radio Yerevan’s Kurdish broadcasts beginning in the 1950s, this paper addresses this history of dispossession, erasure, and resilience through newspaper accounts, and interviews, and previously untapped archival records.