Episode 22: Discussing the Armenian-Turk Relationship

Our guest is Jirayir, an Armenian-Turk living in Turkey. He was born in Turkey and his family has been living in Turkey for three generations. His grandfather was a victim of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. They escaped death by taking refuge in the western side of Anatolia. He said that when he was a child, he was afraid of speaking Armenian, and his father also did not let him speak Armenian in public. In his business life, he was discriminated against multiple times by Turkish nationalists, and he was also verbally harassed by government officials in many instances. He commented on the debate over the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and offered his perspective on the discussion.