hometowns

[Hye_Psycho]

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dikranagerd. kef is my middle name (not really)

[vasbourakan1]

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100 pct from adana and our family is mentioned in p.yeghiayan's 'adanayi hayots batmutyun' several times with pictures

[seruven]

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I remember that during the demonstrations before the soccer match, a man was carrying a poster indicating that her was from Van.
This is really striking for Turks. Learning where you have come from, they will start to percieve you as individuals and understand each of you has your own dramatic family history.

I do know some armenians, greeks and suryani from hatay. So do you also speak arabic like most other hatay people?

As far as I know, majority of the Christians from Hatay is either Arabic or Armenian. Do you really have Assyrian and Greek friends from Hatay?? (anyway, send my regards to your friends if you still see them.)
And I only a little know Arabic, but I am of Arabic origin if this is what you meant to ask.

[dani87]

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I remember that during the demonstrations before the soccer match, a man was carrying a poster indicating that her was from Van.
This is really striking for Turks. Learning where you have come from, they will start to percieve you as individuals and understand each of you has your own dramatic family history.

As far as I know, majority of the Christians from Hatay is either Arabic or Armenian. Do you really have Assyrian and Greek friends from Hatay?? (anyway, send my regards to your friends if you still see them.)
And I only a little know Arabic, but I am of Arabic origin if this is what you meant to ask.

My fathers cousin is married to a greek man from antakya (maybe I could make it so you could speak to her son if it's very important). They still have family in Antakya. And I also know a suryani man from Samandag. I was crazy about his two daughters, they where Hot!

Also I meet a vafikli armenian when I was in Mardin this summer.

The Suryani church was founded in Antakya and their church leader is called the patriarch of Anktaya, most of the "arabs" in Hayat are just suryanis who became muslims.

[yerazhishda]

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My paternal great-grandfather was from Sis and my paternal great-grandmother was from Kharpert.

Here's a fact: more people in the pre-1970 Armenian-American community overwhelmingly claimed their family had come from Kharpert more than any other village.

[yerazhishda]

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seruven,

My ancestors did not "migrate". They were either murdered of fled for their lives during the Turkish Genocidal campaign against them.

Anyway, before the Genocide, my grandparents were from the western region of Armenia (not "Anotolia")...Mush and Digranagerd to be specific. Their entire village, including most of their family, were mudered.

Nice memories. Right seruven? Cheers.

I just think that this post needs to be reiterated. We did not "migrate"; our ancestors had a gun to their heads and had to make a choice based on a "survive or die" mentality.

[yerazhishda]

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See, I told you yerazhishda.

[yerazhishda]

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Im proud to say I was born N raised in San Fernando Valley.

Did you understand the question at all?

[seruven]

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I just think that this post needs to be reiterated. We did not "migrate"; our ancestors had a gun to their heads and had to make a choice based on a "survive or die" mentality.

Then reiterate it.
Of course, I know (and everybody knows) they HAD TO migrate. But what's the single verb that I should have used if not "migrate"?

@Dani87
No, it's not that important. If here we had some Armenians from Hatay, I could chat with them and ask some questions in order to learn the history of my hometown.
Btw, I used to live in Samandağ, there we had some Arabic Christian family acquaintances. But Antakya and Samandağ are not good representatives for Anatolian towns because these are from the few towns which have significant Christian population.

[yerazhishda]

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From which city of Anatolia did your grandparents migrate?

...could have been rendered as "From which city of Western Armenia were your grandparents forcibly exiled?"