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  1. Wonderful tribute to Yazidi young people. I’d like to share a family story. The village of KERAMET near Lake Iznik in the Bursa Province of the OTTOMAN EMPIRE/TURKEY was deeply scarred by the Genocide also. Faron was fifteen years old when the Genocide began. My father, Sarkis (aka “Deli” Sarkis) was her first cousin. She was engaged to be married but her fiancé died and during the Genocide Faron walked through Syria and made it to the Yazidi heartland of the Sinjar in MESOPOTAMIA. Along with other orphaned Armenian children Faron was taken in by the Yazidis and kept safe for three years until the First World War ended. He brother came for her and took her to Bulgaria. The Yazidis adamantly refused to turn over Armenian children to the Turks and eternal gratitude from our family goes out to them.
    Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut
    Author: “Deli Sarkis: The Scars he Carried”

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