A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a "love thine enemy" experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use--and abuse--our personal histories Meline Toumani grew up in a close-knit Armenian community in New Jersey where Turkish restaurants were shunned and products made in Turkey were boycotted. The source of this enmity was the Armenian genocide of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government, and Turkey's refusal to acknowledge it. A century ...
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A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a "love thine enemy" experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use--and abuse--our personal histories Meline Toumani grew up in a close-knit Armenian community in New Jersey where Turkish restaurants were shunned and products made in Turkey were boycotted. The source of this enmity was the Armenian genocide of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government, and Turkey's refusal to acknowledge it. A century onward, Armenian and Turkish lobbies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to convince governments, courts and scholars of their clashing versions of history. Frustrated by her community's all-consuming campaigns for genocide recognition, Toumani leaves a promising job at The New York Times and moves to Istanbul. Instead of demonizing Turks, she sets out to understand them, and in a series of extraordinary encounters over the course of four years, she tries to talk about the Armenian issue, finding her way into conversations that are taboo and sometimes illegal. Along the way, we get a snapshot of Turkish society in the throes of change, and an intimate portrait of a writer coming to terms with the issues that drove her halfway across the world. In this far-reaching quest, told with eloquence and power, Toumani probes universal questions: how to belong to a community without conforming to it, how to acknowledge a tragedy without exploiting it, and most importantly how to remember a genocide without perpetuating the kind of hatred that gave rise to it in the first place.
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Many people of Armenian descent, settled in different parts of the world, are the direct descendants of Armenians who were massacred by Ottoman Turks in 1915. The Holocaust in Nazi Germany gets much wider coverage all over the world, yet the massacre of those Armenians also amounted to genocide and should never be forgotten.
This book by Meline Toumani, a young Armenian-American, who went to Turkey seeking answers to questions often asked by many Armenians about those massacres, is a thought-provoking reminder of the brutal treatment Armenians were subjected to in Ottoman Turkey a hundred years ago. It is also a reminder of the many war zones today which are being fuelled by ethnic, racial or religious hatred.
I had a very close friend at school from whose family I learnt much about the 1915 Turkish massacre of Armenians, and who often dwelt on many of the issues covered in this book. This is an absorbing memoir of the time the author spent in Turkey, discovering the country, its people and herself.
