[3] His 2012 book on the subject (written in response to the 2007 assassination of his friend Hrant Dink) is titled 1915: Ermeni Soykırımı (English: 1915: Armenian Genocide).

[9] Cemal began working for the weekly Hakkı Devrim [tr] in 1969 and soon thereafter, he became an Ankara representative of the Cumhuriyet newspaper.

But they (old-guard intellectuals) always resisted, calling us plotters, tools of big business and the United States".

[1] In 2018, he received a suspended sentence to a prison term of more than 3 months for his documentation of the withdrawal of the PKK in 2013.

After some Turkish diplomats were assassinated by the armed Armenian ASALA group, he however began an inquiry and eventually changed his mind.

[19] While Cemal was in Armenia, he had an opportunity to meet and have lunch with Armen Gevorkyan, the grandson of Artashes Gevorgyan, the man who assassinated his grandfather Djemal Pasha in 1922.