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My name is Elia Kazan.
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I am a Greek by blood,
a Turk by birth...
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and an American,
because my uncle made a journey.
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This story was told me over the years
by the old people in my family.
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They remember Anatolia, the great
central plateau of Turkey and Asia.
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And they remember the mountain,
Erciyes, standing above the plain.
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Anatolia was the ancient home
of Greek and Armenian people.
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But 500 odd years ago, the land
was overrun by the Turks...
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and from that day the Greeks
and Armenians lived here...
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but as minorities.
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The Greek subject people.
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The Armenian subject people.
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They wore the same clothes
as the Turks...
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the fez and the sandal...
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ate the same food,
suffered the heat together...
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used the donkey for burdens.
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And they looked up
to the same mountain...
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but with different feelings...
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for, in fact, they were conqueror...
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and conquered.
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The Turks had an army.
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The Greeks and the Armenians
lived as best they could.