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Family Secrets: Armenian Orphans Raised by Turkish Families after the Genocide [9min @ 1:29]

90 years ago, more than a million Armenians died during forced marches and massacres in Turkey. The dead left many children behind. And now some Turks are starting to discover that people they've known -- close friends, even relatives -- were in fact Armenian orphans who'd been saved and protected by Turkish families. Dorian Jones has the story of a filmmaker searching for the story of one of those orphans: her grandmother.
Read entire article at CBC Radio One "Dispatches" Nov. 17, 2005