January 13, 2015
by Azad Alik

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Nancy Kricorian** (@nancykric)
Evden ayrılmadan önce Türkiye’ye yapacağımız Ermeni Mirası Turu’na bir isim buluyorum: “Bir Otobüste Yirmi Ermeni” ya da “Otuz Mendil Turu”. Rehberimiz, sanki dini veya ruhani bir arayıştaymışız gibi turumuza hac, bize de hacı diyor. Ne bulmayı umuyorum? 1915’te Osmanlı hükümetinin Ermeni vatandaşlarının çoğunun sürgüne ve ölüme gönderilmesiyle sonuçlanan soykırım harekatının başlamasından birkaç ay sonra babaannem ve ailesi Mersin’deki evlerinden kovulduklarından beri neredeyse yüz yıl geçti. Aileden sadece babaannem ve kardeşi gönderildikleri ölüm yürüyüşü sonunda hayatta kalmışlar. Suriye çölünde, Ras al-Ayn’da bir kampta sekiz bin Ermeni yetimden ikisiymişler.
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January 4, 2015
by Azad Alik

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Nancy Kricorian** (@nancykric)
Before I leave home, I come up with a title for the Armenian Heritage Trip to Turkey: Twenty Armenians on a Bus, or The Thirty Handkerchief Tour. Our guide calls it a pilgrimage, and refers to us as pilgrims, as though we are on a religious or spiritual quest. What do I hope to find? Almost one hundred years have passed since my paternal grandmother and her family were driven from their home in Mersin in 1915, just a few months into the Ottoman government’s genocidal campaign that resulted in the deaths and exile of the vast majority of its Armenian citizens. Of her immediate family, only my grandmother and her brother survived the death march. They were among eight thousand Armenian orphans in a camp in the Syrian desert at Ras al-Ain.
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