
October 4, 2010 - 18:54 AMT

02:42 GMT
Ararat is visible from everywhere in Yerevan. According to “political geography”, this Olympian mountain, which I learnt to be one of the important symbols of Armenian identity, is completely inside Turkish borders. We are taught to call it Mount Agri, maybe because in Turkish this name insinuates “whitening”, in reference to the fact that snow never melts on this mountain’s peak. But maybe because the same word also means “pain” in Turkish, referring to the memory of real pain that this mountain stands witness to...