Saturday, March 06, 2004

Confronting the Sins of Your Ancestors

A while back in this space I mentioned the Armenian genocide that took place in Turkey during the First World War and how, to this day, the Turkish government refuses to acknowledge it. In today's New York Times is an article about a Turkish professor teaching at the University of Minnesota who is challenging his government and culture to recognize what went on nearly a century ago. The man's certainly got guts.

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