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May 28, 2013
AGBU Hosts Conference-Debate by Turkey Correspondents Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier
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Isabelle Kortian, Ara Toranian, Guillaume Perrier and Laure Marchand.
The AGBU Alex Manoogian Cultural Center hosted Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier, correspondents in Turkey for newspapers Le Figaro and Le Monde respectively, in a conference-debate organized by Nouvelles d’Arménie magazine and AGBU Paris.
Following opening remarks by AGBU Europe District Chairman Alexis Govciyan, the conference-debate was moderated by researcher Isabelle Kortian and Nouvelles d’Arménie Editor Ara Toranian.
The audience followed with keen interest the correspondents’ stories and impressions of Turkish society and reality following ten years in the country, an experience described in a seminal book entitled La Turquie et le Fantôme Arménien (“Turkey and the Armenian Ghost,” an Actes Sud print).
Theirs is a unique testimony, with Marchand’s and Perrier’s book being mandatory in the reading list of anyone who wants to understand the extreme complexity of a state shut into a cocoon of denial. Yet, there are certain signs leading to believe that an evolution, albeit slow, is starting to take shape in Turkish society.
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