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Question

a row has broken out in Turkey over reports that a national heroine in fact have been Armenian by birth.?
Sabiha Gokcen who was adopted by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - the founder of the modern Turkish state - in 1925.

Gokcen, who went on to become Turkey's first woman combat pilot, has long been acclaimed as the epitome of progressive Turkish womanhood.

Almost all Turkish schoolgirls grow up learning the story of Sabiha Gokcen off by heart.

Gokcen subsequently trained as a pilot, She was regarded by the state as the exemplary modern Turkish woman and flags flew at half mast when she died three years ago.
her parents have been Armenian - killed in the mass slaughter of Armenians in 1915.

I have my sources, I will give you one only, then you go search for yourself.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3519561.stm

Answer 1

Some Governments (well most of them) hide information from people, they don't want to reveal the truth, specially something like this.
There are more things to discover, Turkish people don't get angry, just know there are hidden files that you don't know about it.
Armenian have lot to be proud, men or women all over the world, we have inventors, writers, historian, linguists, pilots, generals, and more and more........and more.
We are known to world , every where get respects and no need to be jealous of any thing of yours, Gokcen is yours, God bless her soul, she is now with her parents, RIP, Sera is back is simply giving us information simply want to state the fact

Answer 2

Big fat LIE!!!

See the sources pls and decide yourself:

According to Turkish sources and the ''interviews with Sabiha Gökçen'', she was the daughter of Mustafa İzzet Bey and Hayriye Hanım.[1][2] Other sources state that she was of Armenian origin[3] (i.e. Agos, Dr. Hans-Lukas Kieser, etc.)[4], but this is disputed by official Turkish sources.[5][6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabiha_Gökçen

An autobiography from CNN:

http://www.cnnturk.com/YASAM/DIGER/haber_detay.asp?PID=223&HID=1&haberID=164786

From an interview with Ulku Adatepe, the other adopted sister of Ataturk, means step sister of Sabiha Gokcen. She says Sabiha Gokcen was born in Bursa (a city in Turkey) as a daughter of a Turkish family (father Hafız Mustafa İzzet Efendi and mother Hayriye Hanım)

http://arama.hurriyet.com.tr/arsivnews.aspx?id=204528

In addition, assume she was armenian. What then? We have thousand of armenian originated Turkish people. We're living in Turkey and we are all Turkish whether we're armenian, kurdish or whatever.

We're together and happy, we don't bother your provocations.

Answer 3

I am not Armenian and I am not Turkish.... BUT WHAT YOU WRITE UP THERE IS A BIG LIE.....i study HISTORY IN THE STATES.... AND THAT IS SO WRONG... sabiha gokcen was my special research as a first woman pilot in a Muslim country... i red all the books about her, all the interviews... it maybe will upset you but, SHE WAS TURKISH... SHE WAS NOT AN ARMENIAN

Answer 4

Yep I studied it in school, a history major,This is disputed by official Turkish sources, other sources state that she was of Armenian origin. I like their tobacco from Turkey, mmm Camels are good !

Answer 5

Hi Sera,

Something abut Sabiha Gokcen ;

Would you please read it ?

Sabiha Gökçen (March 22, 1913, Bursa—March 22, 2001, Ankara) was the first Turkish female aviator and the first female combat pilot in the world. She was one of the eight adoptive children of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Regards

Answer 6

No I never heard about it, thats interesting... SoTurkish national heroin was an Armenian.

Answer 7

Hey that was very interesting, I saw in one of answers about the woman's right in turkey, someone(hurricane or something like that) talked about her very proudly and mentioned her name. And yet they are insulting Armenians. thanks for the information.

Answer 8

that's a lie. I'm sorry that you don't have a woman like her in your history. I know it is sad. but she is turkish if you say she is not then show me your source.
my source is that; go to google type sabiha gökçen and tell me what it says there.
as much as i see from your avatar you are a woman too. why don't you try to be like sabiha gökçen.
don't steal heroines from somewhere else, be one yourself!

Answer 9

I did not know it, good information. You are doing a good job here.thanks

Answer 10

Oh, that was new for me!!!
And were are the Turks to give their answer to this, or maybe they did not even know this, and they are simply shocked by this information!
Thanks Sera is back. oh my you are really back!!!!