May 28, 2014 6:30 AM

Gallery: Powerful Photos Dig Into Turkey's Taboo History of the Armenian Genocide

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A horse wanders through a meadow outside of the town of Arapgir, Turkey, formerly inhabited by a significant Armenian population.
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A view from a train that runs from Adana to Istanbul. According to eyewitness accounts, detention camps formed along the sides of the tracks, particularly between the cities of Konya and Gaziantep. Defending themselves again bandits, starvation and disease, thousands perished in the camps or en route to Syria.

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Ayşe Bal, estimated age 98 (in 2012), is seen in her home in Ağaçlı , Turkey. Ayşe's mother, originally from the city of Muş, was hidden and saved during the Genocide. She was converted to Islam and latter married a Muslim.
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Along the road between Deir-Zor and Hassakeh, Syria. In 1915, a decree was issued that forcefully deported thousands of Armenians from Ottoman Turkey to the deserts of Syria and Iraq.

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Visitors walk toward the entrance of the Armenian Genocide monument in Yerevan, Armenia to pay their respects on the evening of the anniversary - April 24th.
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Hundreds of silkworms feed on mulberry leaves in the room of a house in Ağaçlı, Turkey.

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Silk cocoons from the village of Ağaçlı, Turkey. An Armenian silk-weaving tradition was revived in this village, boosting silk production. Worms are raised by families, and these small cocoons are processed to make silk thread, which is then woven on looms into scarves.
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Silk cocoons from the village of Ağaçlı, Turkey. An Armenian silk-weaving tradition was revived in this village, boosting silk production. Worms are raised by families, and these small cocoons are processed to make silk thread, which is then woven on looms into scarves.

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Silk cocoons from the village of Ağaçlı, Turkey. An Armenian silk-weaving tradition was revived in this village, boosting silk production. Worms are raised by families, and these small cocoons are processed to make silk thread, which is then woven on looms into scarves.
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Snow blankets the countryside along a road between Van and Doğubayazıt, Turkey, close to the border with present-day Armenia.

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Women enter the Church of the Holy Cross on Akhtamar Island in Lake Van, Turkey in 2010, during the first service in the church since the Armenian Genocide.
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Tables and chairs are set up before the start of an Armenian celebration in Vakıflı, Turkey.

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A Genocide survivor is seen in his home in Gyumri, Armenia.
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A flock of birds flies over the coast of Lake Van in eastern Turkey where the largest population of Turkey's Armenians had lived for centuries.

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