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BOOK ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
14:46, 24 October, 2013
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 24, ARMENPRESS: Ahead of the 100th anniversary of
the Armenian Genocide, the English version of the three-volume book
"Armenian Genocide in Turkey" has been published. At the meeting with
the journalists the Director of the National Archive Amatuni Virabyan
told about it. According to him, the book includes the stories told
by the Armenian Genocide witnesses collected in 1916, as well as the
English versions of the maps of the Western Armenia.
"The Armenian version of the book "Armenian Genocide in Turkey"
emerged great interest in Turkey. And we decided to publish the
English version of the book jointly with Van Foundation. It will
have 1000 samples and in case of greater demand, we will increase
the number of the books", - said Amatuni Virabyan, Armenpress reports.
In the years of 1892-1923 the Turkish government organized the
Armenian Genocide, during which mass deportation and massacre of
more than 1,5 million people from the Western Armenia, Cilicia and
Ottoman Empire was carried out. Conditionally the beginning of the
Genocide is considered to be the April 24 1915, when 600 Armenian
intellectuals were arrested and then killed in Constantinople.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/737660/book-on-armenian-genocide-translated-into-english.html
14:46, 24 October, 2013
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 24, ARMENPRESS: Ahead of the 100th anniversary of
the Armenian Genocide, the English version of the three-volume book
"Armenian Genocide in Turkey" has been published. At the meeting with
the journalists the Director of the National Archive Amatuni Virabyan
told about it. According to him, the book includes the stories told
by the Armenian Genocide witnesses collected in 1916, as well as the
English versions of the maps of the Western Armenia.
"The Armenian version of the book "Armenian Genocide in Turkey"
emerged great interest in Turkey. And we decided to publish the
English version of the book jointly with Van Foundation. It will
have 1000 samples and in case of greater demand, we will increase
the number of the books", - said Amatuni Virabyan, Armenpress reports.
In the years of 1892-1923 the Turkish government organized the
Armenian Genocide, during which mass deportation and massacre of
more than 1,5 million people from the Western Armenia, Cilicia and
Ottoman Empire was carried out. Conditionally the beginning of the
Genocide is considered to be the April 24 1915, when 600 Armenian
intellectuals were arrested and then killed in Constantinople.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/737660/book-on-armenian-genocide-translated-into-english.html