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Aras, Yasin Aras, Welat Ay, Cenk Cengiz, Emily Coolidge, Seval Dakman, Seda Doğan, Burcu Ege, Elif Ege,Sinem Esen, Tevfik Karatop, Selen Kızıltoprak, Aslı Menevşe, Nora Mildanoğlu, Nayat Muratyan, ÖzgeNam, Esra Olcay, Berat Meryem Örnek, Levent Özata, Sait Öztürk, Eda Tarak, Nora Tataryan and AyşegülYayla.Hranush Kharatyan-Araqelyan would like to express her gratitude to Anush Hovhannisyan, MikaelZolyan, Gayane Shagoyan, Ara Gulyan, Lusine Kharatyan, who, in addition to taking part in theworkshops, brought their professional advice to the analysis of the Armenian section of the book.Sometimes difficult moments of the joint discussions were always mitigated by the good hearted humorof dvv international Armenian office representative Varuzhan Avanessyan to whom we are grateful.The authors are also deeply grateful to all the interviewees who agreed to narrate their lives, voluntarilyand readily answered the questions of the researchers and generously opened their homes to us.10
INTRODUCTIONSpeaking to One Another: Personal Memories of the Past inArmenia and TurkeyThis book is the product of the research project, “Adult Education and Oral History Contributing to Armenian-TurkishReconciliation” conducted with the support of dvv international (Institute for InternationalCooperation of the German Adult Education Association) between August 2009 and February 2010and financed by the German Federal Foreign Office. Local project partners in Turkey and Armenia wereAnadolu Kültür; a local NGO working in the sphere of culture and the arts, and the Center for EthnologicalStudies “Hazarashen” respectively. The main aim of the project is to build bridges between Turkishand Armenian societies through adult education, intercultural exchange and oral history research.The activities of the project included a student camp in Dilijan, Armenia during 8-14 October 2009,where ten university students from Armenia and ten university students from Turkey were trained inoral history. Between October 2009 and February 2010, a research team directed by Professor HranushKharatyan-Araqelyan from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Armenian National Academyof Sciences, Yerevan conducted oral history research in Armenia. During the same period, a researchteam directed by Professor Leyla Neyzi from Sabancı University, Istanbul conducted oral historyresearch in Turkey. University students took an active role in the research process in each country.Oral history is a relatively new and increasingly recognized research methodology in Armenia and Turkey.Oral historians study how ordinary individuals narrate historical events as a means of makingsense of the past in the present. In remembering the past, we make use of multiple sources: our own experiencesand memories, as well as other sources such as postmemory (memories transmitted by oldergenerations), history and the media.In this research, individuals in Turkey and Armenia from diverse backgrounds and regions were interviewedin order to record how they remembered and reconstructed recent history. One of the aims ofthe project was to investigate postmemory: how did individuals recount events they themselves did notexperience but which were transmitted to them by older generations? While the study aimed at investigatingmemories of the Armenian experience in Turkey in particular, the researchers conducted openendedlife history interviews which allowed interviewees to construct their own narratives and activelyengage in setting the research agenda. The deliberate choice to approach subjects without a pre-setagenda was particularly important given the political sensitivity of the subject and the limited range ofdiscussion of this complex subject in the public sphere, especially the media. Our goal was to simply listento ordinary individuals and to investigate how they subjectively experienced, remembered, narratedand interpreted this painful history.11
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Page 7 and 8: ForewordThe project “Adult Educat
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Page 17 and 18: ed by 1915 and where memories of Ar
Page 19 and 20: 1915 tends to be represented by int
Page 21 and 22: Yet to a large extent, Turkish inte
Page 23 and 24: this, we can’t. It’s impossible
Page 25 and 26: een very advanced in trade and craf
Page 27 and 28: How to Come to Terms with Phantom P
Page 29 and 30: It is always you who has to be nice
Page 32 and 33: to the way he was raised: “They f
Page 34 and 35: empathize with Armenians: “My aun
Page 36 and 37: Adil is not the only one marked by
Page 38 and 39: ness may be an attempt to overcome
Page 40 and 41: dernity and the oral transmission o
Page 42 and 43: A soup pot with spoons around itAt
Page 44 and 45: What if My Mother is Armenian?Ruhi
Page 46 and 47: If I were younger I’d get baptize
Page 48: with butter. We’ll serve the impo
Page 51 and 52: The time Salih and Gavrik are worki
Page 53 and 54: Turkey’s changing context is refr
Page 55 and 56: ‘It was to be expected.’ And my
Page 57 and 58: against one another. The feet of th
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Fear of Losing a CityZübeyde was b
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half for me.’ But what do our Mus
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e discussed when the kids were arou
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possible by the difference in relig
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The Charm of AraratMehmet is a 62-y
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dogs protected the sheep against wo
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The Story of the “Night People”
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“I don’t know why, but my grand
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Research in Armenia:“Whom to Forg
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and can generally be located in Tur
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“Whom to Forgive? What to Forgive
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“Private Stories”After the esta
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Recalling MemoriesOral history diff
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In the village of Ujan, where the v
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The home-museum of Gevork Chaush in
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Memorial in the Ashnak village dedi
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other regions are entirely populate
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sources and materials for their mem
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Ergir’s Soil is Strong, Ergir’s
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Tatevik, the granddaughterof Mihran
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eral meanings in Armenian -”whole
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The Gospel with Golden Binding of S
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keeps a copper chalice that was bro
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In some families the passports of t
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at that time, Mustafa and Jamal, wh
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People were so frightened to lose g
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naked, they were decapitating every
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Water, Fire, Desert“There was an
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his mother dragged him behind her,
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Many of our narrators mention the R
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In the word-stock of the survivors
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in Kurdish villages, and helping th
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“Well, They Are Human Too”Even
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member this well, they said, the el
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speak to each other. Questioned by
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Hamze Ptshuk, survived from Hosnut
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“I don’t Know...”Why did this
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“My Dear Almast, Write it Down, W
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took his rifle and ran. The dog fel
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she didn’t tell it to me. In the
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elder guy in this house died and hi
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AH - Turks always killed to get int
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“My Father used to Tell us at Hom
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person... I have never seen him, bu
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gotten what you knew”. So, out of
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a paid Adult Residential Facility,
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It was probably after 60s... My fat
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the Vardevar 1 day . Even if we mak
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that this wasn’t a dream... and..
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was our historical village. Nich, I
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just filming around myself with no
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that person whether I could take a
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[Turk. wife]”. In the morning I t
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4 Albert Mamikonyan,1953, in Kirova
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11 Almast Harutyunyan,1920, Ujan vi
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18 Eleonora Ghazaryan.1949, Ashnak
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26 Nairi Tajiryan,1936, Egypt (Cair
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33 Vazgen Ghukasyan,1933, Ashnak vi
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