104 years after the Armenian genocide, an investigation project to serve new stories and a call for dialogue

The Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and the Kaloosdian / Mugar Chair of the Strbadler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University join in a major research project under the supervision of Professor Taner Akcam .

This initiative aims to identify the Turks and Kurds who saved the victims of the Armenian Genocide. The Raoul Wallenberg Foundation's mission is to unveil countless stories of rescue and solidarity.

The issue of Muslim saviors who challenged unimaginable risks of badisting Armenians in the early twentieth century has not been studied in depth and therefore constitutes unexplored territory to be discovered. The research was published as an e-book in four languages. It can be read in Spanish by accessing this address.

On April 24, Armenians and the world in general commemorate the systematic slaughter and deportation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. The date refers to the origin, the time when the Ottoman authorities ordered the arrest of more than two hundred Armenian intellectuals and community leaders. It could be said that from that day, the gates of hell opened up and more than a million people perished.

The peoples of Armenia and Turkey deserve to build a common vision of truth-based coexistence and prosperity, the cardinal element of all morals.. A renewed relationship, steeped in the truth, must be responsible for creating the necessary conditions for the emergence of a narrative that looks past in the eye, without hiding or distraction, and exceeds more than one. century of animosity and mistrust.

The virtual wall separating the Turkish and Armenian peoples must be replaced by bridges, material and symbolic.

Eduardo Eurnekian and Bruj Tenembaum are respectively president and founder of the Raoul Wallenberg International Foundation.