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BBC NEWS | Europe | Armenian quest for lost orphans

"Armenian quest for lost orphans
By Dorian Jones
Producer, Masterpiece, BBC World Service

Kaptan family
Nahide Kaptan (front row, second from left) was taken in aged nine
Ninety years ago, hundreds of thousands of Armenians died in mass killings that still resonate through Turkey's social and political life.

Armenians say that up to 1.5m of their people were deported and died at the hands of the then Ottoman rulers of Turkey.

But it is believed that thousands of orphaned Armenian children were saved secretly by Turkish families."

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