Documentary on Turkey’s hidden Armenians “Turkey, the Legacy of Silence”, to be released on the web on April 2015 (centennial of the Armenian Genocide).
Cross-stone Mountains (Kaçkar Mountains)
Eastern Turkey is the home of one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the world, still holding some traces of its Armenian past. During the 19th en 20th century much of Armenian geographical and cultural names have been replaced in a process of Turkification of the region. Some etymologist estimated at least 3,600 Armenian place-names to have been replaced in...
Armenian Mamluks
Mamluk meaning “owned”, an Arabic designation for slave soldier, refers to a famous military caste in medieval Egypt that played an instrumental role in the Muslim world. The Mamluk Sultanate famously beat back the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut and fought the Crusaders, effectively driving them out from the Levant by 1291 and officially in 1302 ending the era...
