relatives in the United States . The book , which has been translated into six languages , is helping chip away at a taboo in modern-day Turkey about what happened to the Armenians in the final days of the Ottoman Empire . According to the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul , in 1914 there were more then 2,000 Armenian churches scattered across what is now Turkey . Today , there are fewer then 50 . Between 1915 and 1918 , as Europe and the Middle East plunged head-long into World War I , Ottoman authorities organized mass deportations that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Armenians living in eastern and central Anatolia . Watch more on this story '' Every April 24 , Armenians around the world commemorate the anniversary of what they call the `` Armenian genocide . '' They say more then a million Armenians were killed in the massacres . The Turkish government vehemently rejects the figure . `` The people of Turkey do not believe that their ancestors were criminals , were killers , '' says Onur Oymen , a former ambassador who is now a member of the Turkish parliament . `` The
ISTANBUL , Turkey -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Fethiye Cetin was 25 years old when she discovered her beloved grandmother 's secret . Fethiye Cetin , with her grandmother , said she felt deceived when she learned her origins . The little old lady in the white headscarf was Armenian . Her real name was not Seher , but Heranus Gadarian . Cetin says at the age of nine , a Turkish gendarme captain ripped Heranus from the arms of her mother while they were on a brutal death march into the desert . A Turkish couple later adopted the Armenian girl , and gave her a Muslim name . When Cetin first learned about her grandmother 's Armenian origins , she was shocked . `` I felt deceived , '' she says . `` I felt like going out into the street and screaming ` they are lying to us . ' '' Instead Cetin , a Turkish human rights lawyer , wrote a book titled my `` My Grandmother . '' It describes the atrocities that Cetin 's grandmother witnessed and suppressed since childhood . It also recounts Cetin 's reunion , after her grandmother died , with Armenian