As featured in previous blog posts, I explained how I met Khatchatur Pilikian whose parents had survived the massacres. Khatchatur’s father went on to write a journal about his time living in the Ottoman Empire. I also interviewed Khatchatur’s wife, Araxie.
Robert Fisk wrote in yesterday’s Independent about how Turkey will, for the first time, commemorate the ‘Battle of Gallipoli’ on April 24th, the same day Armenians commemorate the genocide.