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  • #11
    Originally posted by ahıskalı
    my mother told me that when i was six or seven. i am from the east side of turkey, erzurum. my dad's parents are caucasus turks. my name "ahıskalı" comes from there i didn't see her. and my grandpa died when i was two. i would be honest, my father and his parents hates armenians. but i don't think like him. of course i am muslim and turk. and don't feel a little like an armenian but i feel sad when think of her.
    You are not alone as a "Turk" having an Armenian background - knowing or otherwise. Your Armenian heritage is a very rich one and I hope that you decide to pursue further discovery of it and of your heritage. And I also find it quite interesting that there may be many Turks of Armenian heritage in Turkey today who have been brought up to hate their own blood - sad - and a sad indictment on the culture/society that fosters such ignorance and hatred...

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    • #12
      The Least we can do, to the grandson of a Lost Armenian

      Originally posted by ahıskalı
      my mother told me that when i was six or seven. i am from the east side of turkey, erzurum. my dad's parents are caucasus turks. my name "ahıskalı" comes from there i didn't see her. and my grandpa died when i was two. i would be honest, my father and his parents hates armenians. but i don't think like him. of course i am muslim and turk. and don't feel a little like an armenian but i feel sad when think of her.
      Dear ahiskali,

      Thank you for the info. you shared, and as I said earlier, you can consider us your second family. Actually your case of having an Armenian grandparent is not a single case, there are a lot of similar cases, maybe it's not out spoken widely but we all know that there are a lot of Turks who have Armenian grandparents, manily grandmothers ....
      In an article published in the BBC titled Armenian quest for lost orphans , pointed out this issue ...

      I'm glad that you felt interested to get to know Armenians more, or even felt curious to know more about the Armenians by contacting them, blessed be you kind mother that have told you about her mother (Who was an Armenian) whatever it was that she told you about Armenians, good or bad, the fact remiand that she wanted you to be aware of that fact, that you are 25% ethnic Armenian, even though you are a Turk and Muslim.

      If you have any question, whatsoever, please do not hesitate to ask, if you want to share any thought or anything please feel free to do so... consider yourself at home, and us your brothers and sisters ... it's the least we can do to honor the memory of an Armenian who had to change her identity, but in the heart she remaind Armenian until the day she passed away ... The Least we can do honor her is to help you to get to her and her people a little bit more...

      And if you know her name or her "Armenian" family name, we may be able to help you find any Erzurumian Armenian that might be relative of her's thus yours

      Welcome again

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      • #13
        Originally posted by maral_m79
        Dear ahiskali,

        Thank you for the info. you shared, and as I said earlier, you can consider us your second family. Actually your case of having an Armenian grandparent is not a single case, there are a lot of similar cases, maybe it's not out spoken widely but we all know that there are a lot of Turks who have Armenian grandparents, manily grandmothers ....
        In an article published in the BBC titled Armenian quest for lost orphans , pointed out this issue ...

        I'm glad that you felt interested to get to know Armenians more, or even felt curious to know more about the Armenians by contacting them, blessed be you kind mother that have told you about her mother (Who was an Armenian) whatever it was that she told you about Armenians, good or bad, the fact remiand that she wanted you to be aware of that fact, that you are 25% ethnic Armenian, even though you are a Turk and Muslim.

        If you have any question, whatsoever, please do not hesitate to ask, if you want to share any thought or anything please feel free to do so... consider yourself at home, and us your brothers and sisters ... it's the least we can do to honor the memory of an Armenian who had to change her identity, but in the heart she remaind Armenian until the day she passed away ... The Least we can do honor her is to help you to get to her and her people a little bit more...

        And if you know her name or her "Armenian" family name, we may be able to help you find any Erzurumian Armenian that might be relative of her's thus yours

        Welcome again


        Dear maral_m79 ;

        You are so kind. Thank you so much. İn my opinion all mankind should be brother and sisters without looking their nationalities. Even if i didn't haven an armenian blood you'd be my brothers and sisters.

        Also i don't know her armenian name. Even she didn't know... Her name was Semahat .The only thing i've heard about her is that her villages name is "Khouvakh" A kurdish chete killed her family and a muslim turk called Nazım found her under the bed when she was a 5 - 6 months baby. My mom is saying that while praying she were starting to cry... Everything i know about her is all that..

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        • #14
          Originally posted by ahıskalı
          A kurdish chete killed her family and a muslim turk called Nazım found her under the bed when she was a 5 - 6 months baby. My mom is saying that while praying she were starting to cry... Everything i know about her is all that..
          So sad - think of all the orphaned Armenian children who have had this fate...who survived byut know nothing of their heritage of their families, their tradtions, their relatives...who live with falsehood...and the many more who were brutally killed out of hand...just for being Armenian...

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          • #15
            Originally posted by ahıskalı
            İn my opinion all mankind should be brother and sisters without looking their nationalities. Even if i didn't haven an armenian blood you'd be my brothers and sisters.
            Yes - very nice thoughts...imagine

            "...you may say that I am a dreamer...but I'm not the only one...maybe some day you'll join us and we can live as one..."

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            • #16
              Originally posted by 1.5 million
              Yes - very nice thoughts...imagine

              "...you may say that I am a dreamer...but I'm not the only one...maybe some day you'll join us and we can live as one..."
              sorry, but i couldn't understand anything u said

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              • #17
                It's a quote from John Lennon's song, "Imagine"

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