Svazlian’s book on Genocide to be released in Turkish on threshold of April 24

PanARMENIAN.Net - On the threshold of April 24, Verjine Svazlian’s The Armenian Genocide. Testimonies of the Eyewitness Survivors will be released in Turkish language, in addition to Armenian and English copies already published.

The Turkish edition of the book will be printed at Belge Publishing House, property of Turkish human rights activist Ragıp Zarakolu.

As Ms. Svazlian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, Mr. Zarakolu agreed to issue the book in his publishing house during his visit to Armenia in February 2011.

Prof. Verjine Svazlian, has written down (also tape-recorded and video-recorded), word by word, fragment by fragment, studied and published, during a period of more than 50 years, the various relics of the oral tradition (10.000 unit), as well as the documental testimonies and historical songs - in Armenian and Turkish languages (700 unit), of the eyewitness survivors of the Armenian Genocide, who were deported from over 100 localities of Historic Armenia, Cilicia and Anatolia, and were settled in Armenia and in the Diaspora (Greece, France, Italy, Germany, USA, Canada, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, the Balkan countries, Turkey), thus saving from a total loss the collective historical memory of the Armenian people with a view to presenting it to the world in various languages (in Armenian, Russian, English, French, German and Turkish).

Verjine Svazlian, ethnographer and folklorist, was born in Alexandria (Egypt) in the family of the writer and public man, Garnik Svazlian, himself an eyewitness survivor of the Armenian Genocide.