Hasan Cemal
Hasan Cemal 
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Turkey's Gul Deems Shameful The Dismissal Of Journalist That Wrote Book About Armenian Genocide
April 03, 2013 | 12:14
Turkish President Abdullah Gul considered as shameful the firing of prominent journalist Hasan Cemal from Milliyet daily.
Gul said he always appreciates the writers that freely express their thoughts, Aksam daily of Turkey informs.
"What was done against Hasan Cemal was a great shame," the president of Turkey stated.
To note, Hasan Cemal, who is the grandson of Cemal Pasha-one of the architects behind the Armenian Genocide-, is among those unique Turkish journalists that recognize the Armenian Genocide. Cemal had visited Armenian capital city Yerevan's Genocide Memorial in 2008 and apologized to the Armenians for the genocide.
In 2012, Hasan Cemal published his book entitled "1915: Armenian Genocide," which he dedicated to the memory of Hrant Dink, the founder and chief editor of Istanbul's Agos Armenian bilingual weekly, who was gunned down in 2007 in front of his office building.
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Cemal Pasha Grandson succeeded the most difficult
Mehmet Ali Birand 12:00, 22 September, 2012
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 22, ARMENPRESS: Various Turkish intellectuals do not cease talking about Cemal Pasha grandson book entitled 1915. Armenian Genocide ". As Armenpress reports Turk intellectual and analyst Mehmet Ali Birand wrote an article in Turkish Milliyet daily newspaper.
Hasan Cemal wrote a book about the things one could not even utter by words. In real he managed to do the most difficult. The book does not urge whether the Genocide occurred or not. The book dwells on what Hasan Cemal felt when learning about the GenocideBirand stated, Armenpress reports.
The analyst speaks about the years when Armenian issue discussion was banned in Turkish society and reportedly neither the state nor the books did not dwell on the theme. In the words of the analyst "Agos" weekly ex editor in chief, Hrant Dink's murder became pivotal in this case. Hrant Dink's assassination changed the mentality of an important part of the people habiting in that country. It awoke the people. Currently we are regarding 1915 events in different way Birand writes and states Cemal book mainly tells about this change. The intellectual advises everybody to get the book and read it .
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Book on Armenian Genocide becomes bestseller in Turkey
The prominent Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal’s recent book titled “1915: Armenian Genocide,” which was published last month, has become a bestseller in Turkey , Today’s Zaman daily’s columnist writes in his article.
The daily stresses that the author of this controversial book is the grandson of Cemal Pasha, a key figure in the Young Turk government. In his book, Hasan Cemal not only presented factual data on the tragedy, but, also, he spoke about how his personal views have changed and how he turned from a genocide denier to a recognizer.
“The book starts with the first column Hasan Cemal wrote on the topic on Feb. 18, 1985, largely loyal to the official view of Ankara, which maintains that the question has to do with ‘reciprocal massacres’ between Armenians and Muslims, and ends with the talk he gave at the University of California, Los Angeles on March 31, 2011, in which he recognized the ‘Armenian genocide,’” the columnist writes.
The book also quotes passages from Cemal Pasha’s memoirs published in Germany in 1919, in which Cemal Pasha—who is considered to be one of the organizers of the genocide—specifically claimed that, “The real blame [for the Genocide] is with the Russian policy which rascally incited them to attack each other [that is, the Armenians and the Turks].
Pointing to the fact that so far no prosecutions were launched in Turkey against the book’s author, or its publisher, Today’s Zaman states: “Turkey is moving on to leave no taboos unbroken on the other.”
“The late Hrant Dink, a prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist, who fell victim to a racist plot in 2007, said, ‘Neither denial nor recognition first, but cognition.’ I believe those words are still relevant,” Today’s Zaman’s columnist concluded in his article.