Ino: How do you tell the story of a place that has experienced ethnic violence, some sort of civil war without yourself going back into the codes of tribalism? I'm greek and armenian. Only then i could find the courage to start writing the story. In turkey, our entire relationship with the past is just full of ruptures and void. The second generation, maybe it's not as interested in speaking about the past. We have a sense about that. And we were grateful for but also grappled with how much of our identities can't be extrapolated from this event. Who are we as a people, other than the genesite? Like, we use it