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Dulgarian Murad and Knarik Meneshian Ari Killian AYF Njdeh Chapter (Boston) Herman Hintiryan The Armenian Weekly APRIL 25, 2009 PERSPECTIVES FOR THE RECORD 6 Facing History: Denial and the Turkish National Security 32 Family Matters: Local Elites and the Structures of Concept—By Taner Akcam Genocide—By Ugur Umit Ungor 12 Where Do We Go From Here? Rethinking the Challenge of 36 ARF-CUP Relations Under Ottoman Constitutional Rule the Armenian Genocide and Progressive Turkish Politics —By Dikran Kaligian —By Henry C. Theriault 40 Haigazian University and the Armenian Genocide 15 I Apologize for Not Apologizing—By Ayse Hur —By Rev. Paul Haidostian 19 Commentary on the Turkish Apology Campaign 43 Ginj/Genj and Jabaghchour/Chapakchour —By Marc Mamigonian —By George Aghjayan 25 ‘Death Wells’ and the Suppression of Truth 45 Rescue of a Nation—By Knarik O. Meneshian —By Ayse Gunaysu 27 Critical Interventions: Kurdish Intellectuals Confronting the Armenian Genocide—By Bilgin Ayata IMAGES ON THE COVER: 30 Armenian Memories from Hancepek, Diyarbekir Cover design by 3rd Eye Communications/Vanig Torikian Photography from Mujgan Arpat Editor’s Desk Knocking on the Doors of Justice BY KHATCHIG MOURADIAN about them, then she would laugh after “I don’t have a story,”she said.“I did not speaking a sentence or two. Then she would know anything about Hrant or about 1915 can’t stop looking at Mujgan Arpat’s apologize for laughing and continue her before his assassination. Now I read all I photographs of doors and windows of story. By the time she had finished, she had can find on the Armenian Genocide.” Iold Armenian houses in Diyarbekir laughed and apologized several times. In the As she was saying those words, I felt that (p. 30). They seem to have the immediacy end, she said, “I am really sorry. But I have somewhere, on a certain plane of con- of a Komitas song, a Daniel Varoujan no tears anymore.” sciousness, the laughter of the genocide poem, a page from Krikor Zohrab’s stories. A few days later, I gave a talk in New survivor and the tears of the Turkish I feel a deep desire to knock on them. York about the legacy of Hrant Dink. After woman had met. And perhaps one day I will. my talk, I was chatting with some members * * * But at the moment, dear reader, this of the audience when a young woman The scholars and commentators who magazine you are holding in your hands is approached me and introduced herself. She have contributed to this magazine also have another way of knocking on those doors. was a Turkish student doing her Ph.D. in a meeting point: They are all knocking on * * * New York. We asked her to join our discus- the same door. A door that has the immedi- In April 2007, at one of my lectures, I sion. A short time later, when a slideshow acy of a Komitas song, a Daniel Varoujan heard the story of an Armenian Genocide about Hrant Dink was being shown, I saw poem, a page from Krikor Zohrab’s stories. survivor in Boston. When asked about her tears running down her cheeks. And a door that, one day, will inevitably family’s experiences in 1915, she would talk “What is your story?” I asked her. open. April 25, 2009 | THE ARMENIAN WEEKLY | 3 Contributors George Aghjayan is a fellow of the Ayse Gunaysu is a professional transla- Society of Actuaries. His primary area of tor, human rights advocate, and feminist. focus is the demographics of western She has been a member of the Committee Armenia and is a frequent contributor to Against Racism and Discrimination of the the Armenian Weekly. He is chairman of Human Rights Association of Turkey the Armenian National Committee (ANC) (Istanbul branch) since 1995, and was a of Central Massachusetts and resides in columnist in a pro-Kurdish daily from Worcester with his wife and three children. 2005–07. Since 2008, she writes a bi-weekly column, titled “Letters from Istanbul,” for the Armenian Weekly. Taner Akcam is the Robert Aram and She is also a regular contributor to the Armenian Weekly Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Magazines. Marion Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. Born in the Rev.Paul Ara Haidostian, an ordained province of Ardahan, Akcam graduated from minister in the Union of Armenian Middle East Technical University in Ankara Evangelical Churches in the Near East, is the and emigrated to Germany, where he worked President of Haigazian University in Beirut, as a research scientist in the sociology Lebanon since 2002. Prior to this, since department at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. Akcam 1993, he served on the faculty of the Near earned his doctorate from the University of Hannover with a dis- East School of Theology in Beirut as profes- sertation on The Turkish National Movement and the Armenian sor of pastoral theology. Rev. Haidostian was Genocide Against the Background of the Military Tribunals in born in 1961 in Beirut, Lebanon. He has a BA degree in Istanbul Between 1919 and 1922. Akcam’s initial research topic was Psychology from Haigazian University, a Master of Divinity from the history of political violence and torture in late Ottoman and the NEST, a Master of Theology and Ph.D. from Princeton early Republican Turkey. Since 1990, however, he has focused his Theological Seminary. Rev. Haidostian holds a number of leader- attention on Turkish nationalism and the Armenian Genocide, ship positions in the Union of Armenian Evangelical Churches in with eleven books and numerous articles to his credit. Prof. the Near East, the Fellowship of Middle East Evangelical Akcam’s life and work have been featured in four critically Churches, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, and other acclaimed documentary films. He serves on the editorial board of numerous educational, ecumenical, international and local organ- Genocide Studies and Prevention. izations and institutions. He is married to Maral Purzekian, and they have two daughters, Garin (15) and Talar (10). Mujgan Arpat is a photographer of German-Turkish parentage whose photo- Ayse Hur was born in Artvin, Turkey, in graphs have been published in various 1956. She lived with her parents in Urfa, magazines and newspapers in Germany Nazilli (Aydin), and Edirne, then moved to and the web sites of a number of news Istanbul. Having completed her double major agencies. An exhibition of her photographs in 1992 from the departments of history and was organized in Berlin under the title “Racism in Germany.” Her international relations at Bogazici University, photographs have also been published in various dailies and maga- she joined the History Foundation of Turkey zines in Turkey such as Gundem, Birgun, Postespress, Agos and and worked on such projects as the Istanbul Amargi. She is one of the photographers whose work has been fea- Encyclopedia. In 2004, she completed her master’s thesis on “The tured in the album “We are all Hrant Dink,”published after the assas- European Union’s Policies of Reconciling with History and the sination of Dink. She currently works at a German TV channel as a Armenian Question” at the Ataturk Institute of Bogazici University. reporter in Istanbul. Her exhibition, titled “Gavur Mahallesi: She is currently pursuing her doctorate degree at the same institu- Gidenler, Kalanlar” (The Giavour Neighborhood: Those who left tion. She is a member of the editorial board of Social History, and and those who stayed) about the old Armenian quarter Hancepek in writes historical and political articles in various newspapers and Diyarbekir was held both in Istanbul and in Diyarbekir in 2008. journals, including Taraf, Radikal, Birikim, and Agos. Bilgin Ayata is completing her Ph.D. at Dikran Kaligian is a visiting professor in the department of political science at Johns the History Department at Regis College Hopkins University, Baltimore. Her research and Managing Editor of the Armenian interests include the politics of displace- Review. He received his doctorate from ment, trans-nationalism, social movements, Boston College. He is the author of and migration. Her dissertation examines Armenian Organization and Ideology under the displacement of Kurds in Turkey and Ottoman Rule: 1908-1914 (Transaction Europe. She currently lives in Berlin. Publishers, 2009). 4 | THE ARMENIAN WEEKLY | April 25, 2009 Firuz Kutal was born in Born in Khatchig Mouradian is a journalist, Luleburgaz, Turkey and currently writer and translator. He was an editor of the resides in Norway. His drawings Lebanese-Armenian Aztag Daily from 2000 to have been published in various 2007, when he moved to Boston and became media since 1978. In 1982, he cre- the editor of the Armenian Weekly. ated a political corner in the Turkish Mouradian’s articles, interviews and poems newspaper Cumhuriyet. In 1990, he have appeared in many publications world- received his MA in Graphic Design wide. He contributes regularly to a number and Illustration from the Oslo National Collage of Applied Art.

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