"Monument of Humanity to be destroyed – not in any rogue state, but Turkey
A famous Istanbul-Armenian writer-satirist, Yervant Odian, was deported from Istanbul to the Syrian deserts along with other Armenian intellectuals in 1915. Thank God, he was able to avoid falling victim in Deir ez-Zor by becoming a translator for German officials since he knew French and Turkish. Soon after, he began taking care of orphans left over from deportations in the deserts of Syria, placing them in orphanages. In one of his memoirs he asks: “Why is the truth being raped? Because it is always naked and beautiful.”"
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