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Meet the filmmakers behind “100 Years from Home”
In the documentary “100 Years from Home,” questions chart Lilit Pilikian and Jared White’s journey across the globe. “How do we get over these wounds?” Pilikian asks her mother over the phone, sitting in the stairwell of her house in Los Angeles. “I don’t know how they would feel about me coming into their land searching for my home,” she poses, preparing to travel from Yerevan to historic Western Armenia in Turkey. “How do I fit into all of this?” she asks repeatedly, seekin
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The hatred of Armenians in Turkey is by design. It is manufactured hatred by the terrorist Turkish state. It is a form of defense mechanism, through turning unsuspected Turkish population into Armenian hating public, to deny the 1915 Armenian Genocide in order to not only get away with mass murder but to hold onto stolen Armenian properties, assets and occupied territories. By manufacturing hatred through institutional brainwashing and by fabricating history Turkey is turning its population into “loyal” guardians of stolen Armenian properties.
The Armenian Genocide and the loss and confiscation of the 90% of the total Armenian landmass, a.k.a. occupied Western Armenia, are forever tied. In other words, the preplanned and state-sponsored Armenian Genocide was put into action in order to confiscate the Armenian homeland in Asia Minor as part of the forced Turkification of the region AND/OR in order to put an end to the Armenian people’s dream of living free from Turkish occupation the occupied Armenian provinces had to be devoid of their indigenous Armenian populations. Plain & simple!
Western Armenia is neither “historic” nor “Turkey.” It is occupied Armenian lands.