A Century of Silence
Diyarbakir, Turkey, once at the center of the Armenian genocide, is trying to make amends. Raffi Khatchadourian reports from his grandfather’s home town.
Arax's grandfather was born in the Ottoman Empire in the 1880s, near the Euphrates River. "The Ottomans killed more than a million people, but, somehow, not my grandfather." He guided his family through genocide and remained in Diyarbakir afterward, enduring decades of subtler persecution.