The best-selling book “Armenian Genocide in 1915,” the Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal, grand son of Cemal (Cemal) Pasha one of three Young Turk leaders who committed the genocide of the Armenians has been translated into French notify us Armenian newspaper “Agos” in Istanbul. It will be released tomorrow, 19 March bookstore editions Ordinaries Prairies with the title “1915 Armenian genocide” (288 pages, 23 €). Hasan Cemal’s book appeared in Turkish in 2012 to “Everest” editions. Last year it was translated into Armenian and presented in Yerevan by the author. With a controversy during the presentation in Armenia. The Armenian translation had been amputated some passages relating to criticism of the author on the Armenian terrorism and the war of liberation of Karabakh.
Below is the summary of French book by the editor:
“The deportation and massacre of Armenians in 1915, the question of their recognition and debate about the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, this time of the First World War when the imperial lands have undergone joint attacks by the allies and tsarist Russia have continued to agitate Turkey since its foundation. In 2005, contradictory versions of history face when a group of Turkish intellectuals stands for the recognition of the genocide. Among them, Hasan Cemal, grand-son of the last Minister of Marine and governor of Syria in 1916-1918, Jemal Pasha (1872-1922), considered one of the instigators of the genocide. He chose to recount here the individual and family experience. This book, which caused a stir in Turkey, also traces the journey of a man of the left, which Yerevan in the United States via France, in the Armenian diaspora, wants to reach out and pay tribute to his friend Hrant Dink, the journalist behind the process, who was assassinated in 2007. A key test in a process he inaugurated a decade ago and who intends to consider the Armenian part of the people of Turkey. “
Krikor Amirzayan