Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan speaks during a news conference in Yerevan, April 22, 2015. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - When as a child Nezahat Eleftos discovered a bundle of photographs stashed in a family chest, her grandmother made a confession: some showed her Christian brothers who perished in mass killings in southeast Turkey during World War One.
For nearly four decades, Eleftos tried to guard her grandmother Zarife's secret that she too had been born a Christian Armenian - and not a Muslim Kurd like all her neighbours in Onbasilar, a village set in the rocky hills of Turkey's Diyarbakir province.
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