OPEN WOUNDS: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide 

Book launching will take place on Friday, September 8th, 2017 at the University of Toronto Scarborough. The location and time will be announced shortly! 

Dr. Vicken Cheterian, author of Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and Century of Genocide will be at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus to exclusively launch his book. Dr. Cheterian is a journalist and political analyst, teaching at Webster University in Geneva. 

Dr. Cheterian's book will be introduced by our very own, Dr. Renan Levine, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. Following which Dr. Cheterian will hold a Q&A period with the present crowd.

Mark your calendars and attend this very engaging kick off school year event!

ABSTRACT FROM OPEN WOUNDS
"The assassination of the author Hrant Dink in Istanbul in 2007, a high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks soon reawakened to their Armenian heritage, reflecting on how their grandparents were forcibly Islamised and Turkified, and the suffering their families endured to keep their stories secret. There was public debate around Armenian property confiscated by the Turkish state and the extermination of the minorities. At last, the silence had been broken.
Open Wounds explains how, after the First World War, the new Turkish Republic forcibly erased the memory of the atrocities, and traces of Armenians, from their historic lands -- a process to which the international community turned a blind eye. The price for this amnesia was, Vicken Cheterian argues, "a century of genocide." Turkish intellectuals acknowledge the price society must pay collectively to forget such traumatic events, and that Turkey cannot solve its recurrent conflicts with its minorities -- like the Kurds, today -- nor have an open and democratic society without addressing the original sin on which the state was founded: the Armenian Genocide."