Armen aroyan biography books
The person who would take them there was Armen Aroyan, an Armenian living in California but born in Egypt to a family exiled from southeastern Anatolia.!
This book began when my mother insisted that I meet my cousin Nancy.
I’m not sure what the cousin relationship is, as Nancy is married to my step-first-cousin, Robert Vinetz; but for my mother, family was family and there were no rankings or levels.
My soon-to-be-released, self-published novel 'Angel of Aleppo, a Story of the Armenian Genocide' is researched from primary documents that.
Nancy, my mother said with particular firmness, had been to Turkey, and she wanted to talk about her trip. Everyone knew that Turkey was the center of my world. I finally met her at a party my parents hosted to celebrate my PhD in Islamic Art and Architecture with an emphasis on Turkey and its Ottoman past.
But my new cousin Nancy Kezlarian had been to a Turkey I did not know.
She had traveled there among a small group of other Armenians and had visited her father’s birthplace of Sivas, her paternal grandfather’s hometown of Tokat and her maternal grandfather’s village of Tadem. In Husenig, she even found her maternal grandmother’s house, and she had brought back stones from all four ancestral places.
Meeting Nancy seemed like a cosmi