Table of Contents
Foreword to the Turkish Edition, Ayse Gul Altinay and Fethiye cetinForeword to the Transaction Edition, Ayse Gul Altinay and Fethiye cetinPreface to the Turkish Edition, Fethiye cetinAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the Transaction Edition, Gerard LibaridianGuide to Turkish PronunciationMap The StoriesThe First Time You Hear It, You Want to Go Out onto the Balcony and Shout, BarisIt's a Terrible Thing to Have Had My Origins Hidden from Me, DenizAll This Hiding Makes a Person Feel Insecure, ArifIf They Were the Ones Doing the Plundering, They Would Have Taken Their Gold with Them, RuyaThousands of Women Share This Story, GulcinWhy Did My Father Have No Aunts, Uncles, or Cousins?, NukhetIn the Media, They Use Armenian Like a Curse Word. That's So Horribly Hurtful, NazBecause You Have This Other Identity, You Go into a Cold Sweat, Wondering What Is Going to Happen to You, Qesra Kiso OzlemiI Found Out That My Grandmother Was Armenian while Doing My Military Service, MehmetThe Infidel Girl Bedriye's Son, Bedrettin AykinYou're Living Your Life. One Morning You Wake Up and Go to Your Death. How Can You Explain Something Like That?, ZerdustPeople Must Accept the Facts about Their Lives, AycaSilent All Their Lives, as If They Had Committed Some Crime, GulsadMy Grandmother Was Named Vartanus, Her Sister, Siranus, VecibeToday Is the Day When Armenians Color Their Eggs Red and Pass Them Around, HalideMy Grandmother Was Discovered Sitting Underneath a Tree in the Mountains at the Age of Four, MuratLet Me Honor His Memory, Even If It's Just Two Lines, HenaraminWhy Are There Only Grandmothers? Why Don't They Ever Have Families?, SimaNow Why Would This Sort of Person Tell a Lie?, SalihIt Can't Be Easy, Living with That on Your Conscience, MelekOur Children Need to Learn from History, AsliWe Have Yet to Create a Philosophy in the Name of Peace and Brotherhood, AliCan I Look at the History of Ordu through My Grandmother's Story?, Berke BasWe're Digging Up the Past for the Sake of the Future, ElifPostscriptUnraveling Layers of Silencing: Where Are the Converted Armenians?, Ayse Gul AltinayBibliographyCommentary, Maureen FreelyGlossary