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Diyarbakir Armenians Celebrate Easter Under Lockdown

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey—Armenians in Diyarbakir celebrated Easter at home today amid the coronavirus lockdown, continuing—at a distance—a tradition that has brought…

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Reflections

The Name of This Place

The Opening Over the course of ten months in 2014-2015, I traveled to Turkey three times. I went to reconnect…

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Travel

Making ‘The Armenian Highland’

Eight or nine soldiers, or maybe they were ten, greeted me with cold stares as I got off the Turkish…

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News

Balakian Reads with Kurdish Poet in Diyarbakir

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey—On May 27, author Peter Balakian read poetry with Kurdish poet Tawa Nemir in Diyarbakir (Dikranagerd) to a packed…

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