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My Grandmother: An Armenian Turkish Memoir by Fethiye Çetin

My Grandmother is a memoir written in 2004 about Fethiye Çetin's grandmother's experiences. Fethiye Çetin grew up in Maden in Turkey and always regarded her grandmother as a content, Muslim homemaker named Seher. Only when her grandmother had become quite old, did Çetin learn the truth; Seher was not her grandmother's real name, her name was Hernaus and she was born a Christian Armenian. Her grandmother relayed the events of her life to Çetin in chunks, allowing Çetin to discover that Hernaus' village had all of their men slaughtered in 1915, an the women and children were forced into exile, walking for miles and miles with Turkish soldiers more than willings to pick off any stragglers. It was during this tireless march that Hernaus was taken out of her mother, Ishgui's arms and adopted by a Turkish gendarme. This newly discovered family history tied Çetin directly to the Armenian Genocide.

The memoir follows Hernanus through the eyes of her granddaughter, from memories from her childhood, to the horrendous events she recounts to Çetin. The Independent described the book as “Gripping and thought-provoking ... Spare and elegant ... This moving testimony transcend politics and brings the Armenian tragedy to life with tenderness as well as sadness.”

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Bilefsky, Dan. "A Family Tree Uprooted by a 60-Year-Old Secret." The New York Times. The New York Times, 05 Jan. 2010. Web. 04 Dec. 2016. [ .]

"[https://www.amazon.com/My-Grandmother-Armenian-Turkish-Fethiye-Cetin/dp/1844678679 My Grandmother: An Armenian Turkish Memoir" Robot Check. Amazon, n.d. Web. 04 Dec. 2016.]

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(Samanthadooley (talk) 17:14, 4 December 2016 (UTC))