The Hundred-Year Walk Quotes

“The interior minister explained to the American ambassador that August why he was taking such drastic measures with the Armenians: “In the first place, they have enriched themselves at the expense of the Turks. In the second place, they are determined to domineer over us and establish a separate state,” Talaat Pasha said. “In the third place, they have openly encouraged our enemies.”
― Dawn Anahid MacKeen, The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey

“He’d been so hungry during the siege of Adrianople, he and the other soldiers had dug up the decaying corpse of a horse for food.”
― Dawn Anahid MacKeen, The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey

“Harut, though, didn't waver. "President Obama has lost the moral standing," he said. "How can the United States leaders give a lecture to anybody around the world about justice, about democracy, about fairness. about peace, about preventing ethnic cleansing or genocide if themselves are the top genocide denialist?”
― Dawn Anahid MacKeen, The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey

“Though Protestant and Catholic Armenians were spared at first in some places because of German pressure, Greeks were deported from the coastal areas around the Sea of Marmara. Elsewhere, Christians converted to Islam in the hope of avoiding persecution.”
― Dawn Anahid MacKeen, The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey