This novel reads like a thriller except that, tragically, it is based on truth. In Angel of Aleppo, we hear the story of Anoush, a young, beautiful, and virginal sixteen-year-old. After a ruthless attack on her family and her village, she finds herself under the control of Army guards. Along with many other Armenians, she is […]
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Angel of Aleppo: A Story of the Armenian Genocide Jun 16 Posted by Literary Titan Angel of Aleppo: A Story of the Armenian Genocide, by Jon Cocks, tells of the story of Anoush, an Armenian girl and the trials and tribulations she suffered, until she could leave the Ottoman Empire and start life anew in Australia. […]
Interview
Angel of Aleppo tells the heartwrenching story of a girl that survives the Armenian Genocide and finds a way to keep love in her life. What was the inspiration for the setup to your story? The story of Angel of Aleppo was inspired by my Armenian wife Lilit’s own grandmother Anoush, who witnessed a Turkish […]
Sydney Launch event
On May 22, Lilit and I had the honour of being hosted by the Literary and Cultural Committee of Hamazkaine in Willoughby, on Sydney’s North Shore, for the ‘Angel of Aleppo’ launch. Given we staged the play from which the novel had its genesis in nearby Chatswood six years earlier, this was a welcome return […]
Words on the Wall
There is no hard historical evidence that #Kemal ever uttered the affectionate words to the #Anzac mothers that are the foundation of the Special relationship between #Turkey and #Australia. In 1953, one of #Kemal’s fellow war criminals, one Sükrü Kaya, alleged to a state Turkish newspaper that #Kemal passed a version of these words on […]