Author

Hasan Cemal

Translation

Liz Erçevik Amado, Irazca Geray

1st edition - April 2015
272 Pages

Hasan Cemal is a journalist,
Not a historian.
And this book
Was not written as a historical study.

This book is, in a sense,
Hasan Cemal's personal journey
Regarding 1915 and
The Armenian question.

Hasan Cemal had first written in 1999,
In his book titled No One Should Get Mad, I Wrote Myself
About how his political views
Had changed over time and which
Sources had nurtured this change,
Or in other words,
About his 'political autobiography',
And in this book, he had also
Subjected himself to genuine
Self-criticism.

In this book, as Hasan Cemal
Recounts in a self-critical style
How his position regarding 1915
has changed over the years,
He also tries,
With his usual sincerity,
To shed light on both
The 'lost history' and
The 'invented history' of Turkey...

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Hasan Cemal, journalist, and writer, was born in 1944 in Istanbul. In 1965, Cemal graduated from Ankara University with a Political Science Degree. Cemal began working for the weekly Hakkı Devrim in 1969 and soon thereafter, he became an Ankara representative of the Cumhuriyet newspaper. Between the years 1981 and 1992, he was the chief editor of the Cumhuriyet newspaper. He resigned in January 1992 in a dispute over editorial policy. He became the editor of the Sabah newspaper in May 1992, remaining in the position until 1998. From 1998 he worked for Milliyet. In 2013, he resigned from Milliyet. He then started writing in the independent news website T24 in 2013.

Book name
1915: The Armenian Genocide
Original name
1915: Ermeni Soykırımı (2012)
ISBN
9786056448881
Price
25 TL
Page
272
Width
135 mm
Height
230 mm
Weight
290 gr
Printing
1st edition - April 2015
Language
English
Author
Hasan Cemal
Translation
Liz Erçevik Amado, Irazca Geray
Proofreading by
Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş
Cover design
Bülent Erkmen
Page layout
Sera Dink
Index
Murat Gözoğlu
Cover photo
Kirkor Ajderhanyan
Printed in
Mas Matbaacılık

© Hrant Dink Foundation for all languages except Turkish.

  • In Place of a Foreword: The Hand of History Shows the Right Path to He Who Wants to See!
  • “Yesterday Ali Kemal, Today Hasan Cemal!”
  • The Armenians have shot Bahadır!
  • “Let the Armenians’ Eyes Fall Out on This Pasture!”
  • If We Do Not Want the Issue of Genocide to be a Problem
  • “Thirty thousand Kurds and one million Armenians were killed.”
  • “Non-Muslims will be shot, Muslims will be blamed!”
  • “Hasan Cemal Saw All the Murderers!”
  • Those Who Want to Drown the Future in the Past
  • You Will Lose If You Don’t Have Hope!
  • In Yerevan, at the Genocide Memorial, Alone with Hrant
  • Meeting the Grandson of those who shot Cemal Pasha in Yerevan
  • Light Your Candle Before Night Overtakes You!
  • Pains Cannot Be Measured Up Against One Another!
  • Atatürk Says “Disgraceful Acts, Ignominy” for 1915 But...
  • “The Dink Murder is a Perfect Ergenekon Act!”
  • Am I going to say Genocide, or Not?
  • “The Past Never Dies, It’s Not Even Past.”
  • Tayyip Erdoğan: Turning into a Unionist when it comes to 1915!
  • In Place of an Epilogue: They Get Angry When You Rock the Boat!
  • Annex - 1 Talat Pasha Has Been Avenged!
  • Annex - “My Mother She is Armenian!”
  • Annex - 3 Time for Apperception for Turkey
  • Annex - 4 Loss of Civilization
  • Annex - 5 Hrant Dink Family’s Petition of Appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeals
  • Index