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DAVUTOGLU RECEIVES "THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: EYE-WITNESS TESTIMONIES OF SURVIVORS" BOOK IN YEREVAN 18:20, 13 DECEMBER, 2013
[ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS. The Minister of Foreign Affairs
of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu received a unique gift in Yerevan. The
Turkish version of "The Armenian Genocide: Eye-Witness Testimonies
of Survivors" book was handed to him. "Armenpress" reports that the
author of the book, Lead Researcher at the Institute of Archeology and
Ethnography at the Academy of Sciences in Armenia, Verjine Svazlian
handed it to the Turkish Minister through one of the members of the
Turkish delegation. The suggestion was heard by broadcaster Nver
Mnatsakanyan at the course of "Interview" TV program on Public TV
Company of Armenia when the author of the book Verjine Svazlian was
in the reception-room of the program. She accepted the suggestion and
asked to hand the book to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey
Ahmet Davutoglu.
Voluminous "The Armenian Genocide: Eye-Witness Testimonies of
Survivors" has been introduced to the international community in the
Turkish language. The book, which was published in the Armenian and
English languages yet in 2011, encloses 700 eye-witness testimonies
of the Armenian Genocide survivors. Prominent Turkish human rights
advocate Ragip Zarakolu has also published the book in Turkey and
attended the presentation of the book held on December 10 in Yerevan's
National Library.
Verjine Svazlian, Lead Researcher at the Institute of Archeology
and Ethnography at the Academy of Sciences in Armenia, presented
her research on the oral tradition of Armenian Genocide survivors,
through their eye-witness testimonies and songs revealing their
experience. Svazlian's presentation was based on the many oral
histories of Armenian Genocide survivors, which she personally
collected beginning in 1955 from 100 localities in Western Armenia.
She undertook these efforts often at great personal risk from
authorities in the former Soviet Union and Turkey. Svazlian
began collecting Genocide testimonies as a student at the Yerevan
Khachatour Abovian Pedagogical University, walking door-to-door and
village-to-village, searching for Armenian Genocide survivors who had
been rescued. Her work is particularly valuable not only because of
its volume, but because of the short amount of time that had passed
since the Genocide. Through her interviews, which Svazlian conducted
in written, audio taped, and videotaped form and in different dialects
and languages, she also captured testimonies about the self-defense
actions that took place in several Armenian towns attacked by the
Turkish military (as in Van, Shatakh, Shabin-Karahisar, Sassoun,
Musa Dagh, Urfa, and others.)
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/743724/davutoglu-receives-%E2%80%9Cthe-armenia
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From: A. Papazian
[ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS. The Minister of Foreign Affairs
of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu received a unique gift in Yerevan. The
Turkish version of "The Armenian Genocide: Eye-Witness Testimonies
of Survivors" book was handed to him. "Armenpress" reports that the
author of the book, Lead Researcher at the Institute of Archeology and
Ethnography at the Academy of Sciences in Armenia, Verjine Svazlian
handed it to the Turkish Minister through one of the members of the
Turkish delegation. The suggestion was heard by broadcaster Nver
Mnatsakanyan at the course of "Interview" TV program on Public TV
Company of Armenia when the author of the book Verjine Svazlian was
in the reception-room of the program. She accepted the suggestion and
asked to hand the book to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey
Ahmet Davutoglu.
Voluminous "The Armenian Genocide: Eye-Witness Testimonies of
Survivors" has been introduced to the international community in the
Turkish language. The book, which was published in the Armenian and
English languages yet in 2011, encloses 700 eye-witness testimonies
of the Armenian Genocide survivors. Prominent Turkish human rights
advocate Ragip Zarakolu has also published the book in Turkey and
attended the presentation of the book held on December 10 in Yerevan's
National Library.
Verjine Svazlian, Lead Researcher at the Institute of Archeology
and Ethnography at the Academy of Sciences in Armenia, presented
her research on the oral tradition of Armenian Genocide survivors,
through their eye-witness testimonies and songs revealing their
experience. Svazlian's presentation was based on the many oral
histories of Armenian Genocide survivors, which she personally
collected beginning in 1955 from 100 localities in Western Armenia.
She undertook these efforts often at great personal risk from
authorities in the former Soviet Union and Turkey. Svazlian
began collecting Genocide testimonies as a student at the Yerevan
Khachatour Abovian Pedagogical University, walking door-to-door and
village-to-village, searching for Armenian Genocide survivors who had
been rescued. Her work is particularly valuable not only because of
its volume, but because of the short amount of time that had passed
since the Genocide. Through her interviews, which Svazlian conducted
in written, audio taped, and videotaped form and in different dialects
and languages, she also captured testimonies about the self-defense
actions that took place in several Armenian towns attacked by the
Turkish military (as in Van, Shatakh, Shabin-Karahisar, Sassoun,
Musa Dagh, Urfa, and others.)
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/743724/davutoglu-receives-%E2%80%9Cthe-armenia
n-genocide-eye-witness-testimonies-of-survivors%E2%80%9D-book-in-yerevan.htm
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From: A. Papazian