Hasan Cemal, the grand-son of Cemal Pasha, one of the planners of the genocide Photo credits:. Transparences Productions
TELEVISION – On the occasion of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, France 5 broadcast Sunday, April 12 a poignant documentary based on the testimonies of Turks whose history is linked to massacres of 1915.
Sunday, April 12, France 5 takes us to Turkey. Where the mention of the genocide of one million Armenians massacred by the Turks from 1915 to 1918 has been obscured, the chain decided to turn to the heirs. All contribute to a return of many faces on the history of the Armenian genocide. There Hasan Cemal, journalist and writer, grand-son of Cemal Pasha plannificateurs -one of the genocide-which, after a personal journey, married the Armenian cause and is now working to recognize the genocide . There also Fethiye Cetin, lawyer and human rights which, in adulthood, discovered the Armenian roots that her grandmother had hidden to survive when she was a child. She then led us in his footsteps in the village where the latter spent his childhood in an attempt to reconstruct its history. The camera goes to meet those who are trying to give a place to the Armenian community in the current Turkish society and into the museum erected in Yerevan, Armenia, in memory of the victims. But it also crosses Turks still deny activism with the reality of a genocidal massacre. A moving panorama of the weight of a controversial Turkish past.
Armenian Genocide of 1915 the spectrum, 52 minutes, Sunday, April 12 at 22:25 on France 5 as part of “The Case of the Century” presented by Fabrice d’Almeida.