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    ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TOPIC BECOMES MORE POPULAR AMONG TURKISH AUTHORS

    mediamax
    March 1 2011
    Armenia

    Yerevan /Mediamax/. Specialist in Turkic philology Ruben Melkonyan
    stated today that after 2003, more and more Turkish authors have been
    touching upon the Armenian Genocide in their books.

    Mediamax reports that the specialist said this at the presentation
    of his "Armenian Genocide Topic in Modern Turkish Literature"
    book. According to Melkonyan, this is the first research of this type.

    "Having analyzed over 200 books of Turkish authors, I singled out 20,
    which directly or indirectly touch upon the topic of the Armenian
    Genocide. The policy of denial and forgetting the Armenian Genocide
    strongly influenced Turkish literature of the XX century, in which
    this topic was practically not touched upon" the expert noted.

    Ruben Melkonyan informed that for the first time the Armenian Genocide
    is mentioned in a book, dated to 1956, in which the term "Armenian
    pogroms" is used.

    "In the XXI century, the situation in Turkey has somewhat changed,
    and this fact found its reflection also in literature, where the topic
    of the Genocide started to be used, mainly, in a form of memoirs of
    people, who lived through that tragedy and were forcedly Islamized",
    the specialist of Turkic philology stated.

    >From 20 books, in which the topic of the Genocide is touched upon,
    only 5 were written in last century, all the remaining 15 are dated
    to the XXI century.

    The main value of those books, according to Melkonyan, is that they had
    a factual basis, they make a bigger impression on the Turkish society,
    than historical works, and can be used as propaganda against the policy
    of forgetting and denying the Genocide, adopted by official Ankara,
    since they are written by Turks themselves.

    Ruben Melkonyan reminded that the most famous author, who touches upon
    the topic of the Armenian Genocide, is Elif Å~^afak, whose books are
    very popular in Turkey and are translated into more than 40 languages.

    Mediamax notes that after the publication of "Istanbul Foundling",
    where the Armenian Genocide is mentioned, Elif Å~^afak was to be
    imprisoned for 3 years for "offending the Turkish nation", however
    later the accusations were lifted "for insufficiency of evidence".




    From: A. Papazian
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