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Living out Turkey's hidden history

"Living out Turkey's hidden history
DAN BILEFSKY, ISTANBUL
January 11, 2010

Fethiye Cetin has special hopes for a Turkish-Armenian accord.

FETHIYE Cetin still recalls the day her identity shattered.

She was a young law student when her beloved maternal grandmother, Seher, took her aside and told her a secret she had hidden for 60 years: that Seher was born a Christian Armenian with the name Heranus and had been saved from a death march by a Turkish officer, who snatched her from her mother's arms in 1915 and raised her as Turkish and Muslim."

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