Fethiye Cetin to Attend Launch of English Translation of Her Book "My
Grandmother"
The Armenian Community & Church Council of Great Britain
Address: P.O.Box 46207, London W5 1XX
E-Mail: [email protected]
The Launch of a most fascinating book ‘My Grandmother’ by Fethiye Cetin
will take place at the Institute of Contemporary Art, The Mall, at 7pm
on 19th June.
Ms Cetin was lawyer of Hrant Dink during his lifetime and is prosecutor
of his murderers after his death.
Her book was a best-seller in Turkey, seven times reprinted. Translated
into French and now English, she tells the story of how her grandmother
hid the fact that she was really an Armenian child torn from her
mother’s arms on the Genocide Death March trail and taken for adoption
by a Turkish officer until the very end of her life. It is a wonderful
and moving book. Fetiye Cetin is a great lady, courageous and modest,
who should be honoured.
She will be present personally at the Book Launch on 19th June,
together with Armenian writer and filmmaker Nouritza Matossian, and
Ragip Zarakolu, one of Turkey’s best-known dissident publishers.
Turkey, Armenia and the Defence of Free Expression
My Grandmother
19 June 2008
Scars in Turkish-Armenian history remain far from healed. Visiting the
ICA to discuss the situation in Turkey, and the place of Armenians,
will be four figures closely involved with defending the threatened
position of free expression there.
Fethiye Cetin, author of My Grandmother which describes her discovery
of her Muslim grandmother’s true Armenian Christian identity,
translator and writer Maureen Freely, Armenian writer and filmmaker
Nouritza Matossian, and Ragip Zarakolu, one of Turkey’s best-known
dissident publishers. The event will be chaired by Lisa Appignanesi,
President of English PEN.
This event is made possible through the generous support of Amnesty
International.
£10 / £9 Concessions / £8 ICA Members.
Date Time Venue Book
Thursday 19 June 2008 7:00 pm Nash Room book
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
