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By Artur Hakobyan

Information was disseminated in Turkish press some time ago that a large number of human bones were found in the ditches of historical Zerzevan Fortress, which is located between Diyarbakir and Mardin Provinces in Turkey.       

Even though the Turkish press immediately began writing that these were the bones of serial killing victims of the 1990s, it was impossible to hide the truth in the end. 

Diyarbakir office of the Human Rights Association of Turkey followed the forensic examination of the bones, and found out that these bones date back much earlier than the 1990s. In addition, Zerzevan Fortress does not exist on the maps of the graves of the serial killings of the 1990s.           

The real owners of these bones become known when we look into the stories about the massacres that occurred in 1915 in the Diyarbakir area; and these stories mention that Zerzevan Fortress was used as a place for the massacring of the local Armenians.       

It is known that solely one Armenian had managed to survive the massacres in Zerzevan; this Armenian was injured yet managed to come out of the ditch and told the experiences only to close relatives.

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