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Title	NEW REVELATIONS ON THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE The French College in Aintoura, Lebanon or Jemal Paha’s orphanage where Armenian children were to be turkified
Author	Nora Parseghian, English Adaptation: Simon Beugekian
Summary	Missak Keleshian discovers photos and documents about the transformation of the French College in Aintoura, Lebanon to an orphanage, where children survivors of the Armenian Genocide were gathered to be turkified.

 

FROM: Gocek, Fatma
DATE: February 2, 2006

Dear colleagues,

 

Below please find the link an article by Missak Kelechian, who has unearthed amazing old photographs of the Aintoura orphanage for armenian orphans established by Cemal Pasha and run by Halide Edib (Adivar). [I should note here that it is probably because of her experience at this orphanage that Halide Edib, while on her way from Aintoura to Istanbul via the train, is introduced to Dr. Bahaeddin Shakir and, when the latter leaves, complains to her companion for the introduction by stating: 'You made me shake the hand of a murderer!' This comprises one of the few instances where we have knowledge about the Turkish contemporaries knowing about the activities of Bahaeddin Shakir].

(...) The first picture reveals the ottoman administrators who ran the site surrounding a young Cemal Pasha: on his left is a very young looking Halide Edib. The other photographs are all various scenes from the orphanage and there are other pictures that contains Halide Edib as well.

I have some information from memoirs in Turkish on this orphanage (especially from people who served with Cemal Pasha as well as the pasha himself) and i will send that information to you separately.

I think it would be great if this article was translated into Turkish and came out in Turkey as well.

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