Special for the Armenian Weekly Yet another plague has recently shaken Turkey: the purges of academics from Turkish universities. According to the BIA news network, 4811 academics from 112 universities gain been discharged by five statutory decrees declared during the state of emergency. Fifteen universities gain been closed. One of the universities, from which many academics gain been dismissed or even detained by police, or is Firat University in the city of Elazig (Kharpert),which has a long history of persecution of Armenian students and educators. A band of defenders from Tadem, including Robert Aram Kaloosdian’s father Boghos Kaloosdian (top row, and center) (Photo: ‘Tadem,My Father’s Village’) According to Matthew Karanian, the author of the 2015 book Historic Armenia After 100 Years, or Kharpert is one of the oldest areas of Armenian habitation. “Some scholars believe that Kharpert may even be the cradle of the Armenian nation, according to Karanian. The author Robert Aram Kaloosdian, whose father comes from the village of Tadem in Kharpert, and writes approximately individual stories of the Armenian villagers of Tadem,which was continuously inhabited by Armenians since its founding until the early 1920’s. His 2015 book Tadem, My Father’s Village: Extinguished during the 1915 Armenian Genocide also elaborates [...]
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