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...nearly 2,000 years, the rich and fertile area of western Asia known as Armenia proved hospitable to man and beast, as well as to a remarkable civilization. Then in 1915 the Turks massacred more than a million Armenians, leaving their historic lands desolate and sending the survivors fleeing abroad. The splendidly illustrated The Armenians (Rizzoli; 288 pages; $75) aims to restore to view some of the beauty of this brutally wounded culture. Various Armenian and Italian scholars have contributed chapters on the arts, history, religion and literature...
Friday, Jan. 19. The day you were murdered. I stare at the TV, at your tall, thin body lying dead on the sidewalk of a busy street in Istanbul . You are in front of your office, the office of the Turkish-Armenian weekly you worked so hard to launch and sustain. I cannot take my eyes off the soles of your shoes. Worn out and tired, your shoes are a mute response to all those ultranationalists who accused you of being in the pay of the Armenian diaspora to disrupt the status quo in Turkey...
...said. "I can travel now!" And so you did, commuting between America , Europe , Turkey and Armenia , bridging gaps that people on all sides took for granted. Always a maverick, you never just gave your audience what they wanted to hear. The myriad prejudices and generalizations in the Armenian diaspora about Turkey and the Turks frustrated you. "Yes, there are bigoted Turks," you would say, "but there also countless progressive, open-minded ones, and they are my friends, brothers and sisters...
...myriad prejudices and generalizations in Turkish society about Armenians saddened you, too. You also wanted us Turks to break the deep silence regarding the massacres and deportation of Armenians in 1915, to question our collective amnesia. Nevertheless, you fervently opposed the Armenian genocide bill approved by the French Parliament, which would make it a crime to say that the events of 1915 were not a genocide, because, first and foremost, you believed in freedom of expression. You said it was not up to Western politicians to write our history. Turks and Armenians had to do that, build a dialogue...
...Armenian cemetery, the crowd was asked to wait outside, but people refused...