Questioning the Family Narrative: Turkish Photographer Asks ‘Did we really flee from Armenians=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=?

16:56, June 20, 2015

Emin Akpinar, a 32 year-old Istanbul based freelance photographer, is a man on a mission to fill in certain questionable aspects of his family's history.

While born in Ankara, Emin traces the major gap in his family's history to 1925 and Erzincan (Yerzinga).

As the family narrative goes, and one he's heard repeated since a child, the family was forced to flee Erzincan to Kırşehir in central Anatolia because Armenian were massacring people and burning villages in Erzincan.

"My family doesn't know much about its past and I've only heard this about our past, a story based on what my uncle recounted. So I started to ask my father questions about this," Emin told Hetq.  Read more... (1024 words)

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