Thank you for presenting this very thoughtful and well researched project. I especially appreciate your tagging of levels of tensions, such as the many who desire and do travel from Armenia to Turkey, but with the understanding that many who do not go feel such travel is morally transgressive as it gives economic support to a State that not only has a genocidal history but denies and erases its past. Among other things that you brought up, I was intrigued by how remains of the past (such as stones, often with Armenian inscriptions, that are used to build local houses or even fences) are actively searched for by travelers who, on finding them, make them, by their actions and reverence, into holy markers of their once and even continuing presence in those spaces. Wonderful! Carel Bertram
Thank you for presenting this very thoughtful and well researched project. I especially appreciate your tagging of levels of tensions, such as the many who desire and do travel from Armenia to Turkey, but with the understanding that many who do not go feel such travel is morally transgressive as it gives economic support to a State that not only has a genocidal history but denies and erases its past. Among other things that you brought up, I was intrigued by how remains of the past (such as stones, often with Armenian inscriptions, that are used to build local houses or even fences) are actively searched for by travelers who, on finding them, make them, by their actions and reverence, into holy markers of their once and even continuing presence in those spaces.
Wonderful!
Carel Bertram
This is excellent