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  • Turkish Version Of "Ravished Armenia" By Arshaluys Mardiganian Publi

    TURKISH VERSION OF "RAVISHED ARMENIA" BY ARSHALUYS MARDIGANIAN PUBLISHED IN TURKEY

    15:04, 17 February, 2014

    YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 17, ARMENPRESS. The Turkish version of "Ravished
    Armenia" by Armenian Genocide survivor Arshaluys Mardiganian has
    been published in Turkey. "Armenpress" reports about this citing
    Turkish Taraf periodical. Arshaluys Mardiganian's "Ravished Armenia"
    has been translated into Turkish language by the former worker of
    Istanbul-based "Agos" periodical Tiran Lokmagyozyan. The book was
    introduced by Turkish Pencere Yayınları publishing house.

    Taraf's columnist Ozlem Ertan reflected upon the Turkish version of
    the book and stated that this is a must read book. Among other things
    Ozlem Ertan underscored: "One must read Arshaluys Mardiganian's book
    to get in touch with the painful phantoms of the past and to listen
    to the voice of conscience."

    Ravished Armenia, full title Ravished Armenia; the Story of Aurora
    Mardiganian, the Christian Girl, Who Survived the Great Massacres is
    a book written in 1918 by Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian about her
    experiences in the Armenian Genocide.

    A Hollywood film based on it was filmed in 1919 under the title
    Auction of Souls (which also became to be known as Ravished Armenia,
    based on the book it was adapted from).

    The author Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian was born in the city of
    CemiÅ~_gezek, near Harput (Kharpert), (present-day Turkish province of
    Elâzıg), Ottoman Empire. She was the daughter of an Armenian wealthy
    financier in the city. The story starts in 1915 when Arshaluys was
    14 years old. She had personally witnessed the murder of her father,
    mother, brothers and sisters. She was taken to the harem of a number
    of Turkish pashas, but had remained attached to her Christian Armenian
    faith despite being tortured repeatedly on the hands of her captors.

    She found refuge with an American doctor and missionary Frederick W.

    MacCallum who safely returned her to Erzurum which had come under
    Russian control. She later moved to Tbilisi in the Caucusus and through
    the mediation of General Andranik Ozanian and orders of the Russian
    military leadership in the Caucasus was sent to the United States
    for recovery and to bear witness to the sufferings of the Armenians
    in the Ottoman Empire.

    http://armenpress.am/eng/news/750364/turkish-version-of-ravished-armenia-by-arshaluys-mardiganian-published-in-turkey.html

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