Not Even My Name: A True Story

Not Even My Name: A True Story
by Thea Halo

Not Even My Name: A True Story
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Author: Thea Halo
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-06-02
ISBN: 0312277016
Number of pages: 328
Publisher: Picador

Book Reviews of Not Even My Name: A True Story

Book Review: Lets listen, lets learn, lets accept responsibility...
Summary: 5 Stars

Its truly telling that Turks are trying to enter the European Union and be part of the West and not finally sit down like an adult nation and admit to the horrorific acts that were committed during the Ottoman times against the Armenians, the Kurds, the Greeks, the Cypriots and most of their Arab neighbors (even though they were muslim).

It is unfortunate to still see misguided defenders of the Turkish points refuting the Genocides of the Pontus people, Assyrians, Kurds, and Armenians by reviewers obviously educated and grown up in Turkey and subjected to the overt propaganda of a regime that is still not truly democratic, overtly nationalistic through history, where the press is still not free, and where abuses of basic human rights still make their entry into the European Union being questioned by 20+ members of the Union.

Oh yeah, its not the Ottoman Empires' fault, it is not modern Turkey's fault, the Armenian Genocide was a lie, the Greek massacres in Izmir (Smyrna) were a lie despite live news footage of the atrocities, the systematic aggression against the Kurds still going on a lie, the Turkish aggression and invasion of Cyprus a fictitious "wag the dog" event...This is an example of a backwards mentality and approach to issues that Turks will have to accept responsibilty for if they are to ever truly be part of the European Union, or part of the Arab world that they alianated also by ill-treating them during the Ottoman times. One word for our Turkish brethren, accountability is often liberating...

This book is powerful. It is obvious that some of its detractors haven't even read it. They were sent here to Amazon to debunk it with the same deniability that has gone on for years. As I said elsewhere, the world has numbers, we have documentation, we have pictures, we have stories and books written about these attrocities, and campaigns of missinformation cannot alter the truth. Whatever the Christians may have "done" to the Turks in the Ottoman empire, the Christians were still the Turkish-subjects and second class citizens in Turkey...Even if they did try to revolt (which they didn't really), just like the Americans and the French did during those times, killing 3/4 of the Christian rebells would be inexcusable, and it is.

Different times, yes. Moving populations, yes. Different cultures, yes. Different religions, yes. Slaughter on the Greeks of Smyrna, yes. Genocide of the Pontus people, yes. Genocide on the Assyrians, yes. Genocide of the Armenians, yes. Invasion of the tiny Island on Cyprus and mass-forced exodus of its populations barely 30 years ago, yes. Continued and organized persecutions of Kurds and systemic efforts against any efforts of Kurdish state, yes. Continued Human Rights abuses, yes. YOU JUST CAN'T HIDE AND OBFUSCATE THESE MANY INFRACTIONS...PERIOD! However, I do believe that accountability will lead to acceptance and reconcilliation for Turkey with all its neighbors.

God Bless Everyone in the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor...

Summary of Not Even My Name: A True Story

Not Even My Name is a rare eyewitness account of the horrors of a little-known, often denied genocide, in which hundreds of thousands of Armenian and Pontic Greek minorities in Turkey were killed during and after World War I. As told by Sano Halo to her daughter, Thea, this is the story of her survival of the death march at age ten that annihilated her family, and the mother-daughter pilgrimage to Turkey in search of Sano's home seventy years after her exile. Sano, a Pontic Greek from a small village near the Black Sea, also recounts the end of her ancient, pastoral way of life in the Pontic Mountains.

In the spring of 1920, Turkish soldiers arrived in the village and shouted the proclamation issued by General Kemal Attatürk: "You are to leave this place. You are to take with you only what you can carry . . . " After surviving the march, Sano was sold into marriage at age fifteen to a man three times her age who brought her to America. Not Even My Name follows Sano's marriage, the raising of her ten children, and her transformation from an innocent girl who lived an ancient way of life in a remote place to a woman in twentieth-century New York City.

Although Turkey actively suppresses the truth about the murder of almost three million of its Christian minorities--Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian--during and after World War I, and the exile of millions of others, here is a first-hand account of the horrors of that genocide.

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