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RETROSPECTIVE: Levon Ananyan “Letter to my Turkish friend”

RETROSPECTIVE: Levon Ananyan “Letter to my Turkish friend”

YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS: The 100th anniversary of the first genocide in the 20th century-one of the most shameful pages for human history will be held in 2015. Today, we introduce retrospectively the famous writer, publisher Levon Ananyan’s open letter to the Turk writer (2011) the thesis of which have not lost their modernity

We got acquainted with each other by chance within the days of an international literary festival. During the conversation it turned out-you are a Turk writer, I am an Armenian writer. At that time (and at our further meetings) I did not manage to say many things, but the words I did not say block my throat like the clod. Therefore, I am writing this letter as a confession and an invitation for dialogue. I am writing to throw off the hatred enforced by the memory, to wipe-throw to the dump the postulate to see the enemy of my people in each Turk which has not left us for 100 years. It is exactly so much time that we live our present in the past. But we should display broad-mindedness to liberate at least our future from the nightmare of the same past.

You already know, my surname is Ananyan which is etymologized as an-Ani-yan, that is, lost Ani, Armenian without Ani. In 1319 because of the great earthquake disaster in the 11th capital of Armenia Ani my ancestors migrated from the wellborn home, abandoned luxuries residence of thousands of churches and came-emanated in village Koghb located in the North-Eastern part of Armenia. My lineage comes from Armenian Bagratuni ruling seed and stretches to my one-year-old granddaughter Ani. And in each proper opportunity I look for ashes of my grandfathers’ house through the barbed wires of the Armenian-Turkish closed boundary… through binoculars....

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