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MUSH IS IMPORTANT TO ARMENIANS, BECAUSE...
16:27 06.05.2013
A 40-member group studying the traces of the Armenian population
of Mush before the Armenian Genocide of 1915 found grandchildren
of those, who migrated to Eastern Armenia from Mush and shot the
film "At the Start of the Road," Akunq.net reports quoting Turkish
Demokrathaber.net website.
The director of the film is Somnur Vardar, the producer is Zeynep
Guzel. The shooting of the film started in 2011 by Anadolu Kultur
and three other organizations.
Twenty students from Armenian and Turkish Universities, 10 students and
10 coordinators of the program stayed in Mush for two weeks and then
headed for Gyumri to meet descendants of those who once lived in Mush.
"What's the most important is dialogue. Only this way it is possible to
break the stereotypes of 'bloodthirsty Turks' and 'dirty Armenians',"
coordinator of Anadolu Kultur Ragyp Zikir said.
Zikir said that although there are no Christian Armenians living in
Mush today, there are a number of Islamized Armenians. He noted also
that "Mush is important to Armenia, as the creator of the Armenian
alphabet, as well as the Armenian King who adopted Christianity were
from Mush. It turns out that half of the population of the city was
Armenian before 1915."
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16:27 06.05.2013
A 40-member group studying the traces of the Armenian population
of Mush before the Armenian Genocide of 1915 found grandchildren
of those, who migrated to Eastern Armenia from Mush and shot the
film "At the Start of the Road," Akunq.net reports quoting Turkish
Demokrathaber.net website.
The director of the film is Somnur Vardar, the producer is Zeynep
Guzel. The shooting of the film started in 2011 by Anadolu Kultur
and three other organizations.
Twenty students from Armenian and Turkish Universities, 10 students and
10 coordinators of the program stayed in Mush for two weeks and then
headed for Gyumri to meet descendants of those who once lived in Mush.
"What's the most important is dialogue. Only this way it is possible to
break the stereotypes of 'bloodthirsty Turks' and 'dirty Armenians',"
coordinator of Anadolu Kultur Ragyp Zikir said.
Zikir said that although there are no Christian Armenians living in
Mush today, there are a number of Islamized Armenians. He noted also
that "Mush is important to Armenia, as the creator of the Armenian
alphabet, as well as the Armenian King who adopted Christianity were
from Mush. It turns out that half of the population of the city was
Armenian before 1915."
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/05/06/mush-is-important-to-armenians-because/