Special for The Armenian Weekly
In 1979, renowned Armenian author Antranig Dzarougian penned a follow-up to his famed memoir Mangutiun Chunetsogh Martig (Men without a Childhood), entitled Yerazayin Halebuh (Ethereal Aleppo), in which he reminisced about his beloved Aleppo.
Unlike Dzarougian’s childhood, the years of my youth were spent thousands of kilometers away. Aleppo, or Haleb as we knew it, was an exotic, distant world; a place where Armenian children’s books and Armenian teachers came from. I vividly remember how its name was often accompanied by the word yerazayin (ethereal or dreamy). I would realize only later how fitting that adjective actually was.
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Looks like those who favor “reconciliation” with Turkey have their work cut out for them after Kessab. They got a wake-up call.
I visited Kessab it was a little piece of Armenian paradise in surrounding villages I saw Armenian chrches built I n the 9 th and 19th and 11 centuries.that is wht Turkey, backed by the so called Armenian people friends USA, France, Israel and no freinds like Saudi and Qatar sent al Qaeda constituted by chechens, turks, maroccans and saudis enterred with the help of turkish military intelligence. The genocide goes on keep silent you are great!