Cengiz Çandar, Turkish Intellectuals Who Have Recognized The Armenian Genocide.

December 18, 2014 By administrator

By: Hambersom Aghbashian

Cengiz Çandar (born 1948) is a Turkish journalist and a former war correspondent, graduated from Ankara University in 1970 with a Bachelor’s degree in political science and Int. relations. He began his career as a journalist in 1976 in “Vatan” after living some years abroad due to his opposition to the regime in Turkey. An expert for the Middle East (Lebanon and Palestine) and the Balkans , Çandar worked for the Turkish News Agency and for Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet, Referans and Güneş newspapers as a war correspondent. Çandar served as special adviser to Turkish president Turgut Özal between 1991 and 1993. From 1997, he lectured for two years on “History and Politics in the Middle East” at Bilgi University in Istanbul. Between 1999 and 2000, he did research work on “Turkey of the 21st century” as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Int. Center for Scholars, and was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. His description of the 1998 events in Turkey as a “post-modern coup” gained notice internationally. In 2007, he condemned the authorities for depriving Aghtamar* of its Armenian past by renaming it to “Akdamar”. He is the author of many books.(1)

Jon Coevet a free-lance journalist based in Istanbul wrote in “Washington Report on Middle East Affairs”, December 2000, quoting Çandar saying “An open society based on social consensus, a society without taboos which stands tall with enough self-confidence is the biggest source of strength. Let us confront our history. Let us do some soul-searching.”(2)

Cengiz Çandar participated in the Conference entitled “The Armenians during the Collapse of the Ottoman Empire” that was held at Istanbul’s Bogazici University in September 2005. Several hundreds of nationalists gathered in front of the university shouting out slogans “Betrayers”, “It’s Turkey – love it or leave it”. During a briefing for members of the press, eggs and tomatoes were thrown at journalist Cengiz Çandar, as a sign of protest.(3)

Çandar has been to Armenia several times and closely follows Turkey-Armenia relations. He wrote many articles concerning Turkish-Armenian relations, “Turkey-Armenia – In the freezer” On 23 April 2010, “From Yerevan to Bursa: writing history anew” On 14 October On the road without return 10 October 2009.(4)

Scott Peterson wrote in the “Christian Science Monitor- March 17, 2010”, Prime Min.Erdogan, was angry over the decision by a US congressional committee and by the Swedish parliament to call the 1915 deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenians a “genocide,”. NATO member and EU candidate Turkey does not want to be lumped with Nazi Germany, Cambodia, or Rwanda as perpetrators of genocide in the 20th century. “There are currently 170,000 Armenians living in our country,” Erdogan told the BBC Turkish service in London. “Only 70,000 of them are Turkish citizens, but we are tolerating the remaining 100,000. If necessary, I may have to tell these 100,000 to go back to their country” .“It seems a very careless statement,” says Mr. Çandar. I don’t think that he will be implementing that, sending Armenians working here back to Armenia,” says Candar. “But it is a signal sent to Armenia to deter them from supporting [such] genocide resolutions out loud.” (5)

On March 20, 2010, Taraf newspaper wrote ” The Prime Minister criticized Cengiz Çandar (of Radikal newspaper) who asked for a public apology for the PM’s earlier deportation threats to Armenian illegal immigrant workers .” “These claims [of Armenian Genocide] are baseless and cannot stain our history…I am calling on those journalists and others who try to give us humanity lessons: Be Turkey’s and the Turkish Nation’s lawyer first. … I am calling on those who advice me to apologize: We know whom to apologize very well. Whose lawyer are you?”(6)

The following are some excerpts from Çandar’s article ” Turkish Awakening on Armenian, Kurdish Issues? Al-Monitor , April 28, 2013“. He wrote, “For the past 3 years, Turkey has been holding, Armenian massacre [1915] observations at Taksim Square. The first, at Haydarpasa Station, which was the starting point of Istanbul’s Armenian intellectuals on their trips of no return. It was repeated in 2012 with larger crowd which met in Sultanahmet tourism area, where Armenian intellectuals and politicians were first assembled and then detained in 1915. This year, the dimensions of April 24, 1915, suddenly changed. The observances spread to Turkey’s most important political center of Diyarbakir and to Dersim. As the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide approaches in 2015, could there be a totally unexpected development on the Armenian issue in Turkey? Will this affect Turkish-Armenian relations and change the geopolitics of the Caucasia? That is a question to ponder as 2015 nears. The answer might not be all that difficult if one looks at the developments on the Kurdish issue in 2013 and the recent observances of the 1915 disaster defined as genocide that fell upon the Armenians. The impossible is impossible in Turkey.(7)

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*Aghtamar is the second by size of four islands in Lake Van in Western Armenia ,(currently occupied by Turkey). It is well famous for it’s Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Cross. In 1951 the Turkish government made a decision to destroy the church, but the writer Yasar Kemal managed to stop the destruction. Between May 2005 and October 2006, the church underwent restoration program. The cross which was sent by the Armenian Patriarchate of Turkey was erected on the top of the church on October 2, 2010. after being sanctified by Armenian clergymen. Since 2010, every year a mass is held in the church too.

1- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cengiz_%C3%87andar

2- http://www.wrmea.org/2000-december/armenian-genocide-resolution-nearly-the-end-of-a-beautiful-u.s.-turkey-relationship.html

3- http://www.armeniapedia.org/wiki/Conference:_Ottoman_Armenians_During_the_Decline_of_the

4- http://www.esiweb.org/index.php?lang=en&id=322&debate_ID=4&slide_ID=8

5- http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0317/Armenian-genocide-talk-has-Turkey-threatening-to-expel-Armenians

6- http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/nationalist-first-islamist-second-the-armenian-issue-shows-the-limits-of-the-erdogan-government

7-http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/pkk-withdrawal-armenian-genocide-day.html

Turkish Intellectuals Who Have Recognized The Armenian Genocide 23– Adalet Ağaoğlu

July 3, 2014 By administrator

By: Hambersom Aghbashian

Adalet Ağaoğlu ( born on Oct. 23,1923, in Ankara, Turkey), is a Turkish novelist, playwright and human rights activist. After graduation from the French Language and Literature Department of The Ankara University, she started her long career as a dramaturge for the Turkish national radio and television.(1)

She became one of the most prized novelists of Turkey and is considered to be one of the most important living authors in Turkey and a revered intellectual. Her tightly constructed prose is a balance between a realistic milieu of Turkey which she knows firsthand , and the broader, more humanistic elements of social pressure and gender prejudice. Some of her Theatre and Radio dramas’ are , Yaşamak (1955), Evcilik Oyunu (1964), Tombala (1967), Sınırlarda Aşk-Kış-Barış (1970), Kendini Yazan Şarkı (1976) and Duvar Öyküsü (1992),etc.. Her novels are Ölmeye Yatmak (1973) , Fikrimin İnce Gülü (1976), Yazsonu (1980), Hayır (1987), Ruh Üşümesi (1991), Romantik Bir Viyana Yazı (1993) and more. She has been rewarded with numerous honors besides the literary awards she won in the fields of novel, short story and drama. For her perception of subtle and overt changes in modern Turkish society and her writing entitled “Modernism and Social Change”, Adalet Ağaoğlu received the “Turkish Presidency Merit Award” in 1995. In 1998, Ağaoğlu received “Honorary Ph.D.” from Anadolu University followed by the “Ph.D. of Humane Letters” from the Ohio State University.(2)

Adalet Ağaoğlu is one of the Notable signatories of The “I Apologize Campaign” which was launched in December 2008 in Turkey by numerous journalists, writers, politicians, and professors that called for an apology for what they considered as the “Great Catastrophe that Ottoman Armenians were subjected to in 1915″. (3)

According to The New York Times, Orhan Pamuk’s Nobel literature prize drew mixed reactions in Turkey. Fellow novelists, poets and publishers were among the first to congratulate Pamuk and novelist Adalet Agaoglu called it a “historic moment” , although nationalists who regard the novelist as a traitor for remarks on the World War I-era of killings of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire , accused the Swedish Academy of rewarding the author because he had belittled Turks.(4)

An estimated forty thousand people commemorated slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink with a walk from Taksim to the Agos newspaper in Şişli where the editor-in-chief of the Armenian weekly was gunned down on 19 January 2007. Many people left flowers in front of the Agos building were the commemoration ceremony was held. One of the people leaving flowers was writer Adalet Ağaoğlu. She kissed the red carnation in her hand and left it at the place Dink was shot and died.(5)

According to Bawer Çakir ( Bia news center , Istanbul -17-12-2008), “The Prime Minister criticized those who campaigned to apologize to the Armenians about the Great Catastrophe of 1915 by describing the whole thing as irrational.” Adalet Ağaoğlu reacted to the Prime Minister’s words saying “The Prime Minister should not discuss this, but the mentality that killed Hrant Dink”. She added “What is expressed here is our shame. Erdoğan should tell us why Hrant Dink was killed, instead of this.” She added “Racism and Turkism still continue.” Since Dink was killed for the same reason and while everyone was aware about the murder plan, these are not the sentences to be uttered. The campaign is the expression of the shame we feel about the mentality that has been alive since the Ottomans.”(6)

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1-http://www.turkishculture.org/literature/literature/turkish-authors/-247.htm?type=1

2-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalet_A%C4%9Fao%C4%9Flu

3- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Apologize_campaign

4-http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/12/arts/12iht-web.1013pamukmix.3137789.html?_r=0

5- http://www.norzartonk.org/en/?p=94

6- https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Barev_class_of_77/conversations/topics/1109

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Turkish Intellectuals Who Have Recognized The Armenian Genocide

June 13, 2014 By administrator

By: Hambersom Aghbashian

Osman Köker is the founder and the editor-in-chief of Birzamanlar Publications. ( Birzamanlar Publications publishes books about Turkey’s multicultural heritage, and how it’s vanishing). He was born in Marash, and has worked for many years as a correspondent, editor, and publisher. His work has focused on the publication of historical subjects; between the years of 1997-2001, he was the editor of “Toplumsal Tarih” (Social History), published by Tarih Vakfi (Foundation of History). Throughout Turkey and in various other countries, he has made presentations on the history of the Armenian people in Turkey. His book ” Armenians in Turkey 100 Years Ago : postcards from the collection of Orlando Carlo” was issued in Turkey in 2005. The book contains century-old Ottoman post-cards depicting different aspects of the peaceful and, in many cases, prosperous life of the Armenian community in the former Ottoman Empire. Through 500 postcards from the period, the album endeavors to show, city by city and with supporting figures, how omnipresent Armenian communities were across the Ottoman territory and their role in society.(1)

In his article “1915 tragedy to be commemorated for second time in Turkey “, Emine Dolmci wrote in Today’s Zaman (Istanbul- 20 April 2011),” Publisher and human right activist Osman Koker said that there’s no Armenian problem in Turkey, but that there’s a Turkish problem in Turkey, which is about killings and denial. I see the solution of this problem right here,” he said. “This problem will be solved within Turkey. Many years ago, people were killed and it still weights heavy on us. Whenever Turkey realizes this pain and makes an apology, whenever it drops its policy of denial, this problem will be solved. Outside of Turkey, there might be parliament resolutions, protests, and so on, and they are free to do that, but if all countries recognized the Armenian Genocide, while Turkey didn’t, this problem would still exist. In that sense, any little event or commemoration done in Turkey is very important to me.”(2)

According to http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/mydearbrother/, The Armenian Institute, London, has organized the exhibition: My Dear Brother: Armenians in Turkey 100 Years Ago (1st May – 24th July 2010) at the Brunei Gallery . It provides fascinating insights into the life of the Armenians living in the borders of modern Turkey at the beginning of the 20th century through a large collection of postcards of daily life and scenery from across the region. The exhibition of both enlarged images and original postcards was conceived and put together by Osman Köker, based on his book by the same name (Istanbul: Birzamanlar, 2005).(3).

According to MASISPOST, In 2005, Osman Köker first came to international attention when he organized the unprecedented exhibition “Sireli Yeghpayrs (My Dear Brother)” in Istanbul. Eventually seen by thousands of people. The exhibition has also been mounted in Paris, Munich, Koln, Frankfurt, Yerevan and scheduled (Glendale – March 11.2011) . Osman Köker was also involved in the creation of the Istanbul Turkish-Armenian daily Agos and Aras Publishing House( 1996), the only publishing house which publishes books in Armenian and books translated into Turkish from Armenian.(4).

Armenians in Diyarbekir Province by Osman Koker and Orlando Carlo Calumeno was published in (2011) , and Armenians in Turkey 100 Years Ago, Volume II: by Osman Koker and Ahmet Fethi was published in (2013) .(5)

Over the decades, the Armenian past in Anatolia was gradually erased from the collective memory of Turkish society, as the nationalist project achieved success. Taking all these historical developments into account, the memorialization project “Armenians in Turkey 100 Years Ago” emerged in 2005 as an attempt to break through the discourse of denial and remind Turks of the significant role played by Armenians in economic and cultural life of the Empire for 500 years.(6)

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Orlando Carlo Calumeno comes from a “Levantine” family that immigrated to Turkey from Italy. He has been collecting Ottoman-era postcards for the past 25 years, and has accumulated more than 15,000 of them by now. In fact, many of these cards have Armenian, Ottoman Turkish and French writing on them, a reflection of the multilingualism of the Ottoman Empire in general.

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1- http://www.epfound.am/english/whats-new/announcements/armenians-in-turkey-100-years-ago-book-presentation-in-yerevan.html

2- http://www.armeniapedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide_Commemorations_in_Turkey

3- http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/mydearbrother/

4- http://massispost.com/2011/01/illustrated-lecture-in-glendale-by-osman-koker-on-“images-of-armenians-in-turkey-100-years-ago

5- http://www.amazon.com

6- http://www.memorializeturkey.com/en/memorial/armenians-in-turkey-100-years-ago/

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Turkish Intellectuals Who Have Recognized The Armenian Genocide 19- Oya Baydar

June 6, 2014 By administrator

By: Hambersom Aghbashian

Oya Baydar (born Jan.1,1940-Istanbul- Turkey), studied at Notre Dame de Sion High School in Istanbul . She graduated from Istanbul University‘s Department of Sociology in 1964 and became an

assistant prof.. Inspired by French writer Françoise Sagan, she wrote and published her first novel “God Has Forgot Children” while she was a student in high school. After that she had a break from writing, and shifted towards politics for a long time, then back to literature in later life.

During the military coup in 1972 she was arrested due to her socialist activity as a member of the Workers Party of Turkey and the Teachers’ Union of Turkey and she left the University. Between 1972 and 1974 she worked as a columnist in Yeni Ortam (New Platform) and Politika (Politics) newspapers. She issued her first journal together with her husband Aydın Engin and Yusuf Ziya Bahadınlı. She was known as a socialist writer, researcher and activist woman. During the 1980 military coup she went abroad and remained in exile for 12 years in Germany, then returned to Turkey in 1992 and worked as editor for the Istanbul Encyclopedia, a common project of the History Foundation and the Ministry of Culture, and as the editor in chief for The Unionism Encyclopedia of Turkey. She has won many awards for the novels and stories she published after returning to Turkey, and become a beloved writer(1)

Oya Baydar was one of the Turkish intellectuals who have signed an open letter to the Royal Library, in response to official statements that the Royal Library of Denmark has agreed “to balance” an Armenian Genocide exhibition by allowing the Turkish government to mount its own “alternative” . The Turkish intellectuals mentioned that ” Turkish government has been suppressing historic truths and following a policy of denial for more than 90 years. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in several cases on this subject against Turkey’s position and actions.” Further, they have asked the authorities “Not to Stand Against Turkey’s Democratization and Confrontation with its History. “(2)

In his article “1915 tragedy to be commemorated for second time in Turkey”, (Today’s Zaman, 20 April 2011) , Emine Dolmaci’s mentioned that ” Armenians who lost their lives in the Armenian displacement that took place in 1915, during the final days of the Ottoman Empire, will be commemorated through a variety of events for a second time this year. He added that “A statement with the head line, (This pain is ours) has been opened up for signatures. More than 100 intellectuals, writers and journalists including Ahmet İnsel, Ali Bayramoğlu, Alper Görmüş, Bekir Berat Özipek, Cafer Solgun, Ferhat Kentel, Gülten Kaya, Leyla İpekçi, Mehmet Bekaroğlu, Oral Çalışlar, Orhan Miroğlu, Oya Baydar, Şebnem Korur Fincancı and Ümit Kardaş have signed the statement. (3)

On April 16, 2013, Catriona Troth* (triskelebooks) wrote about “The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize” ( Translated books) . According to Troth , Oya Baydar, in a conversation with Kamila Shamsie, mentioned that “Many people in Turkey – the Kurds, the Armenians – feel like foreigners in their own country.” Baydar added “Even though the situation in Turkey is much more relaxed, serious issues of freedom of expression remain (taboo). She noted that, while it is easier to discuss the Kurdish issue, there are still heavy restrictions around any mention of the Armenian genocide. Saying anything slightly outside the ideological lines can lead to trouble. You may not go to prison any more, but you may lose your job as a journalist.”(4)

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*Catriona Troth was born in Scotland and grew up in Canada before going back to the UK. After more than twenty years writing and editing technical material, She has made the shift into freelance writing. She is proud to be the latest member of the Triskele Books author collective.

1- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oya_Baydar

2- http://www.armenianweekly.com/2012/12/18/turkish-citizens-sign-petition-against-denialist-exhibit-in-denmark/

3- http://www.armeniapedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide_Commemorations_in_Turkey

4- http://triskelebooks.blogspot.com/2013/04/gained-in-translation.html

Turk Intellectuals Who Recognized The Armenian Genocide.

April 8, 2014 By administrator

By:Hambersom Aghbashian

Mehmet Ufuk Uras (born January 4, 1959, in Üsküdar district of Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish libertarian socialist politician and economist. He was elected to the Turkish parliament in 2007 hence became the first socialist independent candidate since the 1960s. Uras graduated from the Faculty of Economics ( Istanbul University) and began working as an academician at the same institution. He was elected the chairman of Freedom and Solidarity Party in 1996 and resigned from the leadership after the 2002 general election. He became the party chairman again in 2007.Uras ran a successful campaign as a “common candidate of the Left”, standing on the independents’ ticket, backed by several left-wing, environmentalist and pro-peace groups in the 2007 general election. After the Democratic Society Party was dissolved in December 2009 and two of its MPs were banned from politics for five years, he joined forces with the remaining Kurdish MPs, giving them the twenty seats necessary to retain their position as a parliamentary party. Uras wrote many books in Turkish mostly political. He is married to ballet dancer and choreographer Zeynep Tanbay.(1)

According to armeniapedia.org(08.09.2007) ,for the first time in history a member of the Turkish parliament(Turkish MP Mehmet Ufuk Uras ) recognized the Armenian Genocide and spoke of restitution of the despoiled property, independent French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net. In an interview with journalist Raffí Arax , Ufuk said, “We committed a terrible massacre against Armenians and Turkey must recognize it. It’s not important how we name this calamity: genocide, ethnic purification, etc. The most important thing is that a terrible massacre was committed and it is undeniable.” He added “We must face up to the history, bandage the wounds, develop the relations with Armenia, defend our Armenian compatriots and restore what was the property of their ancestors. I come from the area of Durig close to Sebastia where I heard the truth from my parents,” he said. “We are confident that with the negation will drive to nothing,” he resumed. (2)

According to bianet.org (Sept.2008), as a deputy for the Freedom and Solidarity Party Ufuk Uras said, “The steps taken because of the soccer match between Turkey and Armenia should be a beginning of a new era” and he listed a series of demands to improve the conditions of the Armenian citizens of Turkey. Getting ready to go to Erivan for the game, Uras urged for the opening of the border and the development of the economic relations between the two countries. “Our Armenian citizens should feel themselves as the equal citizens of this country; they should not face any discrimination in social life, especially in public life.” He added “The history should be discussed freely; all the restriction should be removed. An atmosphere of discussion without any prejudices should be encouraged.” (3)

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1-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufuk_Uras

2-http://www.armeniapedia.org/wiki/Ufuk_Uras

3- http://bianet.org/english/minorities/109555-socialist-deputy-uras-urges-better-relations-with-armenia

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Ahmet Insel Turkish Intellectuals Who Recognized The Armenian Genocide.

March 28, 2014 By administrator

By:Hambersom Aghbashian

Ahmet Insel (born in 1955 in Istanbul to a Turkish Sunni Muslim and kemalist family), is a Turkish Economist, University professor, Writer and a Columnist. He did his university studies in Paris and directed the Economics Department of the University of Paris I from 1990 to 1994. Since 2004, he teaches in the Economics Department of Galatasaray University in Istanbul and since 2007, he has been Head of the department of economy in Galatasaray In France, he was one of the founders of the review MAUSS (Anti-Utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences); in Turkey, he participates in the Iletisim venture, the editing house which published the writer Orhan Pamuk, and he is a chronicler for the daily Radikal. Ahmet Insel wrote a great number of books about Turkey and is now one of the managing editor of the progressist editing house Iletisim.(1)(2)

Ahmet Insel is one of the initiators of a Turkish petition asks Armenians for forgiveness for the 1915 genocide. On Dec. 7,2008, Robert Tait wrote in (The Guardian) “Academics and writers in Turkey have risked a fierce official backlash by issuing a public apology which came in an open letter that invites Turks to sign an online petition supporting its sentiments. It reads: “My conscience does not accept the insensitivity showed to and the denial of the Great Catastrophe that the Ottoman Armenians were subjected to in 1915. I reject this injustice and for my share, I empathize with the feelings and pain of my Armenian brothers. I apologize to them”. Tait added that “The contents expose its authors – three scholars, Ahmet Insel, Baskin Oran and Cengiz Aktar, and a journalist, Ali Bayramoglu – to the wrath of the Turkish state, which has prosecuted writers, including the Nobel prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk, for supporting Armenian genocide claims”.(3)

In April 2010, Ahmet Insel and Michel Marian published “Dialogue about the Armenian Taboo” (in Turkish and French).The book is a conversation between two men, one Turk, Ahmet Insel ,and one Armenian, Michel Marian , about the past, the present, and the future. Through their personal and family itineraries, the great events that marked the history of these two peoples are evoked with, as its culminating point, the 1915 genocide and the question of its recognition.(1)(4)

In his article “Could Europe have an effect on the Armenian question ? (www.repairfuture.net)- 10 October 2013, Insel wrote “it is obvious that there is a strong sensitivity among EU member countries towards genocide which Armenians were exposed to. We saw the reflection of this fact in decisions of parliaments of some EU member countries to accept the genocide and especially in the attitude of European Parliament continues from 1987 till today “. He added ” We are in an era in which the policy of “no problems with neighbor countries” is collapsed in Turkish foreign policy. Within the following two years, Armenian question shall be discussed in the world public opinion and the genocide shall be commemorated. In such an environment, the approach of Turkey towards Armenian question shall tend to be more defensive and reactive rather than to be proactive towards positive solution. The improvement which shall neutralize this tendency could be the fact that EU Council shall accelerate membership negotiations of Turkey spectacularly.”(5)

According to (hyemedia.com, 17 Oct 2013) , Ahmen Insel visited Armenia to participate in a book festival. Presentation of Armenian version of Dialogue sur le tabou arménien (Dialogue about the Armenian Taboo) co-authored by Ahmet Insel and Michel Marian was held during the festival.(6)

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1-http://www.lianalevi.fr/f/index.php?sp=liv&livre_id=332

2-http://www.recon-project.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=31&Itemid=157&lang=en

3-http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/08/armenian-genocide-turkey-apology-petition

4- http://www.esiweb.org/index.php?lang=en&id=322&debate_ID=4&slide_ID=25

5- http://www.repairfuture.net/index.php/en/turkey-and-european-union-standpoint-of-turkey/could-europe-have-an-effect-on-the-armenian-question

6-http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Ahmet-Insel/529539334

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