Krikor 1930

Agopovitch family granted Austrian citizenship by Emperor Ferdinand

     Istanbul 1915

Agopovicth family;Uncle Krikor,Kristin Saleri(painter)1918

Hepimiz Hrant/we are all H rant,painting Salerian oil;

You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to figure out there may be a connection between my interest in government sanctioned serial homicide and my past and family roots. I have been cognizant of eerie similarities between the GSSH of Armenian intellectuals in 1915 Istanbul and  the  ambush at the Dailey Plaza in 1963 .My great uncle  Rupen Sevag a physician poet  was a  victim of  GSSH in 1915.

After graduating from University of Lausanne Medical School, Sevag  returned to Istanbul with pregnant wife and son to serve In Gallipoli as an officer of the Ottoman army.  Along with 250 other intellectuals on the night of April 24th 19, 15 ,  was  stripped off his uniform taken to Cankiri to be silenced.

Some 30 years after Dr Sevag’s death, soon  after the Nazi invasion of Austria my maternal  Uncle Krikor from Istanbul was shipped to join the Nazi army in Vienna at the age of 18. He was neither blonde nor German, but served Hitlers army –  granted Austrian citizenship in early. 1900s after the Nazi invasion of Austria and died in Russia. He did not want to be a fugitive. My uncle did not want to join his cousin who took refuge somewhere in Western Turkey.

This was war!  An Armenian boy from a privileged family leaving   home for Hitler to fight Stalin’s red army in 1945.

My uncles were gone. For a very long time,  like many other grieving Armenians ,we cried quietly not allowed to mention the taboo word “ genocide”.

The 90’s brought global fame and success to me as a VIP Doctor for Hollywood stars and royalty. I was in cloud 9 as a family consultant for one of the most influential families in Istanbul. Also, in the latr 1990’s Hrant Dink ,editor of Agos a leading voice of minority rights in Turkey and I began dreaming about  an Armenian Heritage Museum to celebrate magnificent architectural and  cultural and contributions to the Ottoman Turkey over many centuries.

My  friends and family were absolutely opposed to  a museum. The consensus was Turkey was not ready to face her tragic past.

Neither Hrant  nor myself would listen.  We charged forward with fire. Then slowly came dark clouds of imminent trouble. Hrant was charged of defaming Turkiye by revealing the Armenian heritage of Sabiha Gokcen ,an orphan of the Armenian  genocide the adoptive daughter of Ataturk the father of modern Turkiye .

  I lost my VIP job without  cause a few months before, Hrant was silenced in 2007..

Distraught and guilty I managed to give a tearful eulogy to honor my friend his extraordinary intellectual courage to defend equal rights for all at  the  Saint Mary’s Armenian Church in N.W.  Washington, DC..…..Later, on the phone  my sister   Rehan in Istanbul and I sobbed  listening to  thousands in the streets chanting “ We are all Hrant”.

Hrant’ loss  energized me to investigate GSSH further.

Sadly, tragically  more losses would shadow. This time it was  the war against  pain doctors. The irrational war that locked up 20,000  pain doctors in the last 2 decades.

I lost Kevin Byers, Siobhan Reynolds my associates  to GSSH in the war against doctors in 2011  after a few months Of organizing the first global pain awareness day the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. with 56 churches around the world rang their bells.

In excellent weather, their jet crashed on the runway of Chicago Airport. A few days before the crash an anonymous death threat had frightened me to take refuge in  my identical twin’s house in Houston after closing my office for a few days .A zoom conference with them never occurred .

My personal losses and the suicidal deaths of seven of my patients within one year after the closure of my office represent a very small percentage of death and misery of  millions  around the world in the last century yet they share common  causes and solutions.

All wars and GSSH are savage are preventable. They downgrade every victim to a helpless living thing.

Millions of civilians and soldiers who perish have no choice. They die by the orders of their trusted leaders. The residents of Hiroshima , Nagasaki, Dresden Tokyo  were not mean dead Japanese and Germans.

Our national shame from crimes of our ancestors prevents progress by failing to  learn from human errors.

We cannot change our past errors. But we can learn from them  to prevent future ones

.Let us promote evidence based museums.

Table A

                              GSSH  Victims / Salerian RA

.                                       When          What                                 Presidential Deception

Sevag                            1915             GSSH                                         Talat Pasha

Krikor                            1945              War                                              Hitler

Hrant                             2002    Sabiha Gokcen  heritage         Erdogan

Kevin                              2011       War  on pain doctors              Obama

Siobhan                         2011       War  on pain doctors              Obama