15:01, April 27, 2015
By Raffi Elliott
As the world's Armenian community gears up to commemorate the centennial of the Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, the hashtag #TurkeyFailed has been trending across Armenian social networks.
The phrase, usually followed by accounts of multi-generational survival uploaded onto the web by Armenians, is meant to empower the descendants of these genocide survivors.
As photos of survivors, and their progeny are shared and commented on, we are reminded that though 1.5 million of our grandparents were dehumanized, robbed of their birthrights, their possessions, marched into deserts and brutally massacred, yet the five hundred thousand or so who survived managed to, as William Saroyan so eloquently put it "laugh, sing and pray again"; building "a new Armenia" in the four corners of the globe.
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