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TURKISH VERSION OF "RAVISHED ARMENIA" BY ARSHALUYS MARDIGANIAN PUBLISHED IN TURKEY
15:04, 17 February, 2014
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 17, ARMENPRESS. The Turkish version of "Ravished
Armenia" by Armenian Genocide survivor Arshaluys Mardiganian has
been published in Turkey. "Armenpress" reports about this citing
Turkish Taraf periodical. Arshaluys Mardiganian's "Ravished Armenia"
has been translated into Turkish language by the former worker of
Istanbul-based "Agos" periodical Tiran Lokmagyozyan. The book was
introduced by Turkish Pencere Yayınları publishing house.
Taraf's columnist Ozlem Ertan reflected upon the Turkish version of
the book and stated that this is a must read book. Among other things
Ozlem Ertan underscored: "One must read Arshaluys Mardiganian's book
to get in touch with the painful phantoms of the past and to listen
to the voice of conscience."
Ravished Armenia, full title Ravished Armenia; the Story of Aurora
Mardiganian, the Christian Girl, Who Survived the Great Massacres is
a book written in 1918 by Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian about her
experiences in the Armenian Genocide.
A Hollywood film based on it was filmed in 1919 under the title
Auction of Souls (which also became to be known as Ravished Armenia,
based on the book it was adapted from).
The author Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian was born in the city of
CemiÅ~_gezek, near Harput (Kharpert), (present-day Turkish province of
Elâzıg), Ottoman Empire. She was the daughter of an Armenian wealthy
financier in the city. The story starts in 1915 when Arshaluys was
14 years old. She had personally witnessed the murder of her father,
mother, brothers and sisters. She was taken to the harem of a number
of Turkish pashas, but had remained attached to her Christian Armenian
faith despite being tortured repeatedly on the hands of her captors.
She found refuge with an American doctor and missionary Frederick W.
MacCallum who safely returned her to Erzurum which had come under
Russian control. She later moved to Tbilisi in the Caucusus and through
the mediation of General Andranik Ozanian and orders of the Russian
military leadership in the Caucasus was sent to the United States
for recovery and to bear witness to the sufferings of the Armenians
in the Ottoman Empire.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/750364/turkish-version-of-ravished-armenia-by-arshaluys-mardiganian-published-in-turkey.html
15:04, 17 February, 2014
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 17, ARMENPRESS. The Turkish version of "Ravished
Armenia" by Armenian Genocide survivor Arshaluys Mardiganian has
been published in Turkey. "Armenpress" reports about this citing
Turkish Taraf periodical. Arshaluys Mardiganian's "Ravished Armenia"
has been translated into Turkish language by the former worker of
Istanbul-based "Agos" periodical Tiran Lokmagyozyan. The book was
introduced by Turkish Pencere Yayınları publishing house.
Taraf's columnist Ozlem Ertan reflected upon the Turkish version of
the book and stated that this is a must read book. Among other things
Ozlem Ertan underscored: "One must read Arshaluys Mardiganian's book
to get in touch with the painful phantoms of the past and to listen
to the voice of conscience."
Ravished Armenia, full title Ravished Armenia; the Story of Aurora
Mardiganian, the Christian Girl, Who Survived the Great Massacres is
a book written in 1918 by Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian about her
experiences in the Armenian Genocide.
A Hollywood film based on it was filmed in 1919 under the title
Auction of Souls (which also became to be known as Ravished Armenia,
based on the book it was adapted from).
The author Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian was born in the city of
CemiÅ~_gezek, near Harput (Kharpert), (present-day Turkish province of
Elâzıg), Ottoman Empire. She was the daughter of an Armenian wealthy
financier in the city. The story starts in 1915 when Arshaluys was
14 years old. She had personally witnessed the murder of her father,
mother, brothers and sisters. She was taken to the harem of a number
of Turkish pashas, but had remained attached to her Christian Armenian
faith despite being tortured repeatedly on the hands of her captors.
She found refuge with an American doctor and missionary Frederick W.
MacCallum who safely returned her to Erzurum which had come under
Russian control. She later moved to Tbilisi in the Caucusus and through
the mediation of General Andranik Ozanian and orders of the Russian
military leadership in the Caucasus was sent to the United States
for recovery and to bear witness to the sufferings of the Armenians
in the Ottoman Empire.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/750364/turkish-version-of-ravished-armenia-by-arshaluys-mardiganian-published-in-turkey.html