Soykirim oldu, fakat Türklerin büyük bölümü inanmaz

Zülfü Livaneli'ye yakışmadı

Zülfü Livaneli bir İsrail dergisine içini dökmüş.

Röportajın bir bölümünde "Soykırım oldu, fakat Türklerin büyük bölümü inanmaz" demiş...

İşte o röportaj...

Sevgili Dostlar,

Aşağıdaki bu röportajdan bir bölüm sunuyorum. Bazı cümleleri tercüme edilmiştir.

Livaneli: "The Armenians are a sensitive issue. I've written a number of articles in the paper calling for a dialogue with them. Armenians wrote the most beautiful Turkish poems. Armenian architects built the most beautiful mosques and palaces in Istanbul . We have a common border with Armenia , and 70,000 illegal workers from Armenia currently live in Turkey ."

Was there or wasn't there a genocide, in your view? (Size gore Soykırım oldu mu, olmadı mı?)

"Yes, there was. (Evet oldu) But most Turks don't believe that anything happened. (Fakat Türklerin büyük bölümü inanmaz).

When the Turkish Republic came into being, there was a desire to silence and to erase. Including the traumas that the Turks experienced in World War I. You know, five million Turks were killed in that war. (Birinci Dünya Savaşı'nda 5 milyon Türk öldürüldü)

People imposed silence on themselves and imagined that thus they could start a new page. For example, for many years, no one told me that in World War I, Russian soldiers killed my relatives who had remained in eastern Turkey . The debate about the Armenian tragedy is part of a more general discussion that Turks need to have in order to face reality with eyes open. And the discussion about this is a lot more important than the external pressure exerted on Turkey to accept its responsibility for the Armenian tragedy."

.........And then, I don't know why, we started talking about the writer Yashar Kemal. Maybe because I had asked Livaneli about writers who had influenced his writing and he had insisted that no Turkish writer had had any influence on him. Or maybe as a provocation on my part, to probe his attitude toward Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk having won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year.

In Turkish literary circles, a prevailing view was that the prize should have gone to the 85-year-old Yashar Kemal, the dean of Turkish writers, a well known freedom fighter and the country's greatest novelist. Or maybe I brought up Kemal because my mother was once a close friend of Thilda Serrero, Kemal's wife. Serrero, who died in 2001, a few years before my mother, came from a Sephardi Jewish family in Istanbul , just like my mother.

(Livaneli, Yasar Kemal'in karısı Serrero'nun, (kendi annesinden bir kac yıl once 2001 yılında ölen) kendi annesi gibi, Ispanya'dan gelen bir sefarat Yahudi ailesinden geldigini, söylüyor)

And while my mother studied medicine at the University of Istanbul , Serrero studied translation and dedicated her life to spreading Kemal's reputation around the world.

Röportajin tamamını aşağıda okuyabilirsiniz.

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