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Woman in Turkey Reveals Armenian Identity After 82 Years

Woman in Turkey Reveals Armenian Identity After 82 Years

By Weekly Staff // September 28, 2013

A woman in Turkey who had hidden her Armenian identity for 82 years,
revealed the secret to her youngest son the day before she passed
away.

Abakay and the cover of his book

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

Abakay, who is the president of a journalists’ association, has now
published a book, titledHoÅ?ana’nın Son Sözü (HoÅ?ana’s Last Word),
detailing 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.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/09/28/woman-in-turkey-reveals-armenian-identity-after-82-years/
Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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