Why would an Armenian woman hide her roots and pass off as a Turk?

 
Her survival and the survival of her children depended on her deception. When Muslims take over, the only way to survive their brutality is to either convert to their cult or pretend you are one of them.  Even today, mass graves from the genocide of Armenians are discovered all over Turkey.  Oft times skulls and  human bones are found at construction sites  and yet the govt. of Turkey remains adamant that  no genocide was committed.

This story makes me wonder how many more Turks are really Christians but don't know it because their grandparents opted to live as Muslims to escape the blood-thirsty murderers.  Will those living tell the truth and have the dead taken their secret to their graves?  The calamities the Muslims have rained down on Christians are vastly terrible and encompasses so many corners of the world.

From ArmenianWeekly:
Woman in Turkey Reveals Armenian Identity after 82 Years. Just one day before she passed away, a woman in Turkey who had hidden her Armenian identity for 82 years revealed the secret to her youngest son.  

Hoşana, who was brought up as an Alevi in a Kurdish village, told the secret to her youngest son, journalist Ahmet Abakay.

Abakay is the president of a journalists’ association,  and has now published a book titled Hoşana’nın Son Sözü (Hoşana’s Last Word), which details his mother’s story.

“How can a person hide her Armenian roots for 82 years from her family, children, grandchildren, and her environment?” asks Abakay, according to an article on the Turkish website T24.com.tr.

In recent years, countless stories of Turkish and Kurdish persons revealing their Armenian identity have appeared in the media.