If we might have a chance to educate people about something they’d otherwise never get a chance to learn about without leaving the country, that seemed like a pretty powerful argument for engagement. And what better time to do it than on a tour specifically designed to spotlight the Genocide the Turks had perpetrated? It felt audacious. Going to Turkey to play in 2015, at the centennial of the Genocide, was daring the children of the perpetrators and all of the denialists, daring the Turkish government, to react, as the grandchildren of their horrible ethnic cleansing would be in their face,
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