Turkey’s Haberturk daily columnist and historian Murat Bardakci expressed his objections against the book titled “1915: Armenian Genocide,” which is written by prominent Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal who is the grandson of Cemal Pasha, one of the architects behind the Armenian Genocide. 

In his column, Bardakci wrote that in his book Hasan Cemal forgot, or does not know, that with a special decision in 1927, Ataturk—the founder of the Republic of Turkey—had allocated some of the property that was seized from the Armenians to Cemal Pasha’s family members as compensation for his murder.        

Also, Murat Bardakci publicized the photograph of Cemal Pasha’s dead body in the Tbilisi morgue and a document confirming that Armenian Viçen Hokuçyan’s property was transferred to Cemal Pasha’s family.

To note, Hasan Cemal’s aforesaid book has received wide reaction in Turkey. Also, he had visited Armenian capital city Yerevan’s Genocide Memorial years ago and apologized to the Armenians for the genocide.