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Journeys of Discovery: Armenian genocide—a familial remembrance & hope for Turkish accountability

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Armenian genocide in Turkey (1915-1918).

  A century following the genocide of more than 1.5 million Armenians, the Turkish government refuses to acknowledge or apologize theirgenocidal policies and actions. In the spring of 2015 in conjunction with the centenary of the Turkish genocide (1915-1918) correspondent Tom Wilmer met with Armenian-American Amy Hoogasian in San Francisco.

Hoogasian recalled childhood memories of her grandparents’ tales of horrific abuse and mass murder at the hands of the Turks.

Hoogasian shared her hope for some sort of mea culpa by the Turkish government. But six years after Hoogasian’s conversation first aired (April 24, 2015), the Turkish government remains mute on the subject. April 24th is the formal “anniversary” of the genocide, but the tragic period in Armenian’s collective memory lives on every day.   

Underwriting support for Journeys of Discovery provided by Nashville's Big Back Yard economic initiative focused on rural communities in the southwest quarter of Tennessee and the Shoals Region of Northern Alabama.

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Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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