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Leyla Neyzi talks about the Turkish interviews done for the project "Speaking to One Another: Personal Memories of the Past in Armenia and Turkey".
This is a must watch. It is very rare that I can watch some academic talk for an hour on anything connected to Turkey, and by the end state that I agree with all of the content and all of the analysis and all of the conclusions. This is how it should be done. This is how it is almost never done.
There is a 35 minute Q & A session at the end which adds little, though in that part she explains well why confronting the issue on a micro level was the only route that was worthwhile, doing it on a macro level would have been pointless, resulting in bland debate and simply the restating of the already well-known official Turkish line.
The one thing that is not mentioned, strangely, is that the project has also preserved a lot of oral history that would have otherwise been lost, and so the project is worth more than just a short-term contribution towards ending the current Turkish incapability of facing up to their past at a national level.
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