23 The Victims of “Safety”: The Destiny of Armenian Women and Girls Who Were Not Deported from Trabzon Anna Aleksanyan INTRODUCTION The genocide of Trabzon Armenians is one of the best-documented crimes of the Armenian Genocide, because after World War I the Turkish Courts-Martial brought the perpetrators to trial in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul). Evidence was collected and provided to the court, and many witnesses and survivors gave their testimonies during the trial’s 20 sessions. Most of the survivors were women, who were not deported from the city. During the course of the Trabzon trial, survivors and wit- nesses testifed how perpetrators terrorized and robbed hundreds of Armenian girls and women of their jewelry and other possessions, raped them, kept some of them at the branch of the Red Crescent hospital as sex slaves, and distributed others among the Ittihadist (Committee of Union and Progress) leaders in Trabzon. Female witnesses testifed how children A. Aleksanyan (*) The Promise Armenian Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA e-mail: aaleksanyan@g.ucla.edu © The Author(s) 2024 T. Kühne et al. (eds.), Documenting the Armenian Genocide, Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36753-3_3