{"id":449,"date":"2013-12-10T13:47:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T09:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=449"},"modified":"2013-12-11T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T10:04:18","slug":"belge-publishes-svazlians-book-in-turkish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Belge&#8221; Publishes Svazlian&#8217;s Book In Turkish"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_450\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-450\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Zarakolu-Svazlian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-450 \" alt=\"Presentation of Verjine Svazlian\u2019s book \u201cThe Armenian Genocide: Testimonies of the Eye-witness Survivors\u201d at the National Library of Armenia\" src=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Zarakolu-Svazlian-300x194.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Zarakolu-Svazlian-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Zarakolu-Svazlian-600x388.jpg 600w, https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Zarakolu-Svazlian.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presentation of Verjine Svazlian\u2019s book \u201cThe Armenian Genocide: Testimonies of the Eye-witness Survivors\u201d at the National Library of Armenia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">by Alisa Gevorgyan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">YEREVAN (ArmRadio)\u2014The Turkish-language version of Verzhine Svazlian\u2019s book, Armenian Genocide: Testimonies of Eye-Witness Survivors, has been published by Begle publishing house, headed by Ragip Zarakolu. The Turkish publisher was in Yerevan Tuesday to participate in the book\u2019s Turkish-language release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Armenian and English publications of the book were released earlier. The book includes at least 700 testimonies of eye-witness survivors and historic songs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starting in 1955, Verzhine Svazlian has been writing down, recording and publishing the testimonies of genocide survivors from Armenia and the diaspora from more than 150 settlements of historic Armenia. She has dedicated 55 years to save the tragic and heroic excerpts in the history of the Armenian people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zarakolu was the first to decide to break the wall of denial in Turkey. He founded his own Begle publishing house in Istanbul in 1976, where he published a number of books on the harassment against national minorities in Turkey, as well as the Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zarakolu has often been persecuted in Turkey for his activity, but it has not prevented him from publishing Verzhine Svazlian\u2019s book. Asked whether he\u2019s not afraid to return to Turkey, the publisher said: \u201cI cannot go against my conscience. At the same time I don\u2019t think the Turkish authorities will launch a criminal case against me this time. Experience has shown that these attempts never succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cVerzhine Svazlian\u2019s name is known to many in Turkey as a \u2018pedestal of irrefutable truth.\u2019 This book could become the statue standing on that pedestal. In Turkey the ice is starting to melt and the number of people seeking truth is increasing,\u201d Ragip Zarakolu said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director of the Oriental Studies Institute Ruben Safrastyan is confident that Verzhine Svazlian\u2019s book will have a great influence on Turkish society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alisa Gevorgyan YEREVAN (ArmRadio)\u2014The Turkish-language version of Verzhine Svazlian\u2019s book, Armenian Genocide: Testimonies of Eye-Witness Survivors, has been published by Begle publishing house, headed by Ragip Zarakolu. The Turkish publisher was in Yerevan Tuesday to participate in the book\u2019s Turkish-language release. The Armenian and English publications of the book were released earlier. The book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-foundation-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armeniancause.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}