Fethiye Çetin
Fethiye Çetin () (born 4 May 1950 in Maden, Elazığ Province) is a Turkish lawyer, writer and human rights activist. Biography Growing up in Maden, Fethiye Çetin had no reason to suspect that she had other than Turkish Muslim roots, until her maternal grandmother, Seher, revealed to her that her real name was not Seher: she was by birth an Armenian Christian, named Heranuş Gadaryan. Heranuş was born to parents Hovannes and Isguhi Gadaryan, and was taken from her mother's arms during a death march in the course of the Armenian genocide. This legacy inspired Çetin's first book, a memoir published in 2004 about her grandmother's story entitled ''My Grandmother: An Armenian Turkish Memoir''. The memoir follows Heranuş through the eyes of her granddaughter, from memories of Çetin's childhood, to the horrendous events of the Armenian genocide her grandmother revealed to her as an adult. Çetin discovered that all the men of Heranuş' village had been slaughtered in 1915, a ...
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Maden, Elazığ
Maden is a town (''belde'') in Elazığ Province of Turkey. It is the seat of Maden District.İlçe Belediyesi
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 December 2022. Its population is 3,662 (2021). The mayor is Orhan Yavuz (MHP).

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