| THE ARMENIAN WEEKLY | APRIL 2013 14 HERITAGE www.armenianweekly.com A HISTORY OF A PERFECT CRIME 1 By Talin Suciyan This page is sponsored by Harry Avanessian I spent my high school years in Samatya. The majority of my classmates were the children of the Armenians who had come to Istanbul from the provinces during the republican years. SAMATYA (RAYMOND KEVORKIAN, ERMENILER, ARAS YAYıNCıLıK, 2012) W e were allowed to go out during our lunch breaks. Many of the students lived in Samatya and could go home for lunch. Yet, in the early 1990’s, when the political tension in the country reached its peak, because of the Kurdish issue, we were no longer allowed to go outside the school grounds during lunch breaks. Although we used to work hard to not only be good citizens but the “best citizens”—we took compulsory national security classes taught by a high-ranking mil- itary officer, and would do our military exercises in the schoolyard so loud that half the district would hear our voices—it never guaranteed our security.