Not too long after all this went down, Ahmet died after tripping backstage at a Rolling Stones show. Shortly after his death, Harut Sassounian, an Armenian journalist, published a story in which he wrote that Ahmet had reached out to him a few years earlier to disavow his previous Genocide denial. Ahmet told Sassounian the same thing he’d told me—that he couldn’t go public with this because it would make him a target for Turkish extremists—so Sassounian had waited until his death to reveal it. I’m not sure if it makes me happy to
