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Most of the Turkish people don't believe in Armenian Genocide. That's what they were taught at school, and they didn't hear the other side of the story elsewhere, because anyone who says the opposite faces a big backlash - they may even be persecuted. The main example for this is the Nobel Prized novelist Orhan Pamuk.

Was there ever a moment like in the movies where she managed to make some kid see the light? Say that kid was a bully, or a bad person in general, but your mom thought it's not who they actually are, and they turned out to be good afterall?

Yeah they may speak up if they don't fear backlash or they don't think about coming back to Turkey, ever. I mean we talked about it among our group of friends and some of said it's a genocide, some other said it wasn't technically a genocide. Btw nobody denies half a million or maybe more Armenians died - they just don't consider it a genocide. They don't think it was intentional, they just think it was a consuquence of the WW1. The attidude is "Yeah it's sad and all but it was the war and millions of Turks died too."

It's a pretty common last name.