Starting in 1918, when the Sanjak of Alexandretta came under French control, the population of the #Armenian villages of Musa Dagh returned to their homes (after being rescued by Allied warships and taken to Port Said, Egypt).
My father was born on June 27, 1939.
A few days later, on June 29, following an agreement between France and Turkey, the province was given to Turkey.
Refusing to remain under the rule of the same people that tried to exterminate them just a few years earlier, most of the Musa Dagh Armenians emigrated to #Lebanon where they resettled in the town of #Anjar.
My father was 30 days old when his family traveled, on foot, to Anjar.
When I was growing up, I thought that Anjar was Armenia because everyone there was Armenian.
I later learned that there was a country called Armenia.
That country is now under attack by the same people that chased down my grandfather and his village in 1915.
Azerbejian, with Turkey’s support, is trying to complete the Armenian Genocide today.
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