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An Armenian Homecoming
Filmmaker Ani King-Underwood's family story of returning to find a former home in Turkey.
Last Modified: 18 Jun 2009 11:29 GMT



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Ani King-Underwood is Armenian, but grew up in Lebanon and the UK after her family was driven from Turkey during the Armenian genocide of 1915.

Now she is taking her mother and aunt, respectively 84 and 86 years old, to visit for the first time the family home they were forced to flee.

Almost the entire family of their father was massacred and their mother's family survived by paying off the military.

The two old ladies have never set foot in Turkey since their parents fled but are determined to find the old family house, the church where her parents got married and to find out what they can about their family's history.

Source:
Al Jazeera
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