Ana Kasparian
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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Yeah.
But anyway, sorry.
So the Young Turks rose up to... And the whole thing about the Young Turks was they didn't like the way Armenians were being persecuted.
They wanted to provide rights to Armenians.
And you can look this up.
It's in the history, right?
But there was an offshoot of the Young Turks called the Committee of Unity and Progress.
and they're the ones who perpetrated the Armenian genocide, okay?
So that's how it happened.
1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered.
There were a lot more Armenians who were forced to march through the desert to Syria.
My father was actually born in Damascus.
My father, yeah.
He was born in Damascus.
When he was two years old, though, the family wanted to move back to the homeland.
My grandfather really cared about that.
So they moved to Armenia, but it was difficult because at that point, when the diaspora was moving back, the Armenians who never left, there were cultural differences.
Because think about it.
I mean, if you're going to an Arab country, you take on some of their cultural practices and stuff.
And then when you go back to Armenia, there's a little bit of a disconnect.
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