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Davutoglu receives `The Armenian Genocide: Eye-Witness Testimonies of
Survivors' book in Yerevan 18:20, 13 December, 2013
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
From: Baghdasarian
Davutoglu receives `The Armenian Genocide: Eye-Witness Testimonies of
Survivors' book in Yerevan 18:20, 13 December, 2013
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
From: Baghdasarian