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Article: Chasing Ghosts in Turkey
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- The Armenian Reporter
- Article date:
- January 14, 1995
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Gregory C. Norsigian
Armenian Reporter, The
01-14-1995
Chasing Ghosts in Turkey.
My father and I spent the last two weeks of September on a tour of Anatolia and Western Armenia with a group of diasporan Armenians led by Armen Aroyan. Out journey took us to Ankara, Kayseri, Germir, Tallas Gurun, Malatia, Elazig (Mezre), Harput (Kharpert), Husenig, Kessirig, Hogh, Erzeroum, Kars, Ani, Van, Bitlis, Mush, Diyarbakir, Urfa, Aintab, Marash, Zeytun and Istanbul.
One man in the group came to visit the land where he was born, while the others came full of stories from their parents or grandparents. I had my stories as well. Turkish Armenia, or Armenia as my grandparents had always called it, was a ...