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BOOK AIMS TO START DIALOGUE BETWEEN TURKS, ARMENIANS
Iran Book News Agency
http://www.ibna.ir/vdcayino.49n6o1gtk4.html
Dec 29 2010
Iran
Turkish and Armenian civil society have slowly but surely been
building a constructive future despite "official" concerns about
whether resolutions concerning Armenians being passed by countries'
parliaments or the "genocide" being recognized by countries around
the world.
IBNA: According to news, one recent example of such an effort came
to the fore with the new book, "Speaking to One Another: Personal
Memories of the Past in Armenia and Turkey." The first part, "Wish
they hadn't left," was written by Professor Leyla Neyzi from Sabancı
University in İstanbul, while the second part, "Whom to forgive? What
to forgive?" was written by Professor Hranush Kharatyan-Araqelyan from
the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Armenian National
Academy of Sciences in Yerevan.
The book has been published in English, Turkish and Armenian.
Alin Ozinian, an İstanbul-based Turcologist who translated the book
from Armenian to Turkish, said oral history work is an impressive
way of preserving history.
"Oral history is maybe the most romantic way of preserving history.
Those stories are very impressive," she said, adding that the book
will help people tell more of their stories, which are usually hidden.
The book underlines that there is now an opportunity for Armenians to
visit Turkey. "People go and find the villages of their ancestors,
sometimes also the house they lived in, important places their
grandfathers told them about: the cemetery, church, sacred places,
trees, forests."
From: A. Papazian
Iran Book News Agency
http://www.ibna.ir/vdcayino.49n6o1gtk4.html
Dec 29 2010
Iran
Turkish and Armenian civil society have slowly but surely been
building a constructive future despite "official" concerns about
whether resolutions concerning Armenians being passed by countries'
parliaments or the "genocide" being recognized by countries around
the world.
IBNA: According to news, one recent example of such an effort came
to the fore with the new book, "Speaking to One Another: Personal
Memories of the Past in Armenia and Turkey." The first part, "Wish
they hadn't left," was written by Professor Leyla Neyzi from Sabancı
University in İstanbul, while the second part, "Whom to forgive? What
to forgive?" was written by Professor Hranush Kharatyan-Araqelyan from
the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Armenian National
Academy of Sciences in Yerevan.
The book has been published in English, Turkish and Armenian.
Alin Ozinian, an İstanbul-based Turcologist who translated the book
from Armenian to Turkish, said oral history work is an impressive
way of preserving history.
"Oral history is maybe the most romantic way of preserving history.
Those stories are very impressive," she said, adding that the book
will help people tell more of their stories, which are usually hidden.
The book underlines that there is now an opportunity for Armenians to
visit Turkey. "People go and find the villages of their ancestors,
sometimes also the house they lived in, important places their
grandfathers told them about: the cemetery, church, sacred places,
trees, forests."
From: A. Papazian