Hasan Cemal is a journalist not a historian. And this book was not written as a historical study.

This book is in a sense Hasan Cemal's personal journey regarding 1915 and the Armenian Question. Hasan Cemal had first written in 1999 in his book titled 'No One Should Get Mad I Wrote Myself' about how his political views had changed over time and which sources had nurtured this change or in other words about his 'political autobiography' and in this book he had also subjected himself to genuine self-criticism. In this book as Hasan Cemal recounts in a self-critical style how his position regarding 1915 has changed over the years he also tries with his usual sincerity to shed light on both the 'lost history' and the 'invented history' of Turkey...