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1. As someone whose family roots go back to Chunkush, I thank you for this
   moving article and reminding us once more of this all but forgotten gem of Armenian civilization and the people who once made it a thriving, bustling town.

2. Western Armenia? I have News for you guys… Check out the Kars and Gomry Agreements. That’ll settle it for you.

3. Thank you Matthew for your continuing commitment to educating and documenting our Western Armenian presence. You are so correct …… meeting the people brings all the pieces together.
   Your work is very important. I encourage everyone to purchase his book on Western Armenia. A superb tool for the education of your children. Buy it and use it to discuss your familiy roots and maintain our identity with these lands.

4. Thank you Matthew, for this article and for all that you do to bring these places and the people who inhabit them now, a little closer.
   I met you when you were in Montreal for your book launch. You may remember Vahan Der Assadourian, my brother.

5. I am so thankful for such a dedicated and noble work and history that you are presenting us Mr. Mathew. We will surely buy your book, read your articles to inform us and our kids the past history of our ancestors that we have heard randomly.

6. Thanks! I have written more about Chunkush in ‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years.’ http://www.HistoricArmeniaBook.com

7. Thank you for sharing this article and visiting our brothers and sisters whether hidden or not. Maybe it’s time for our Catholicos to accept Islamacized Armenians and offer support. Let’s not leave these connections to our past to perish disconnected from the greater Armenian population.

8. Dear Mr. Keranian,
   Have you been to Varaka Vank ? If so, try to connect me by asking the “Armenian Weekly”to pass over my email address to you. I´d be very pleased, if you would write me.

9. My late father Malcolm Telloian left Chunkush with his father in 1915 because his father was warned by a Turkish friend they were coming to kill him the following day, so he took his oldest son, my dad, to a nearby town “on a business trip” (he did leather tanning) and instead went to Greece, where they lived for 2 months till they could make their way to the U.S. They never went back, per my dad. They lived in Chicago for 2 years before moving west and got a farm in Fresno. In 1924, they moved to L.A.
   I will be 89 this Summer.

10. My name is Gladys Terzian Melikian. I am related to Malcolm who has 2 children, Gloria and Malcolm, Jr. My mother Anna Nahabedian Terzian is a first cousin to Malcolm Telloian I believe my Grandfather John Nahabedian’s sister was Malcom Telloian’s mother. Is this the same family?

11. Hi, Gladys! Yes, it is the same family & we’ve been living in N. Las Vegas for almost 14 years. My father died in 1991 at age 94. My sister Gloria just died June 12th in Olympia, Washington. We arrived there on the 10th and got to see her both Sat. & Sun. before she passed the following day. She was 93.

12. I just thought about something. I thought they were talking about my father returning to Chunkush, like during the war or shortly after, not years later.
    Yes, my father and mother did return to Armenia for a visit in the late 1960’s, I believe it was, but he told me they didn’t return to Chunkush because it probably still wouldn’t be safe, and besides, it would trigger too many bitter memories. He never told us he returned, and I’m wondering why not? He always said they might have saved his baby sister because she was beautiful with big blue eyes and because she was only 2 years old, would have little memory and could be converted. It’s so sad.

13. Hi Mal, so good to hear your reply. I recall your father to be a kind person full of jokes. My husband Chester, and I visited your father on several occasions having breakfast together. Chester’s aunt lived in Los Angeles. We visited her quite often and gave us an occasion to visit your father also. After we we were married, we purchased a grape farm in Sanger, CA. I became a farmer’s wife after growing up in Fresno, CA. We had a good life but unfortunately my husband passed in 2011. I am 90 now and still trying to be active. I live in Fresno and have a comfortable life.
    I have 2 sons in Fresno and one daughter in Los Angeles, CA. My mother passed at the age of 92. She was widowed in 1954.– So good to hear re
    family I would love to hear from you. Gladys Melikian

14. During a visit to Chunkush in 2012 we were told that the village is now populated by Zaza and Turks, not Kurds.

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