Summary
Like many descendants of Armenians killed in the Ottoman massacres of 1915, Bodigoff is visiting his roots in what he describes as a duty to his mother to mark the centenary of the calamity that befell Armenians.
Turkey, while saying it shared the pain of Armenians over the World War I events, has always vehemently rejected use of the term genocide and contends that hundreds of thousands were killed on both sides.
Bodigoff, a retired butcher from the Paris region said: "Today, I am living in France and feel that I am 120 percent French.
A century ago, Bodigoff's family were living in Erzincan, an Ottoman frontier town close to the Russian empire and now a big city in the Turkish northeast.
Gerard Bodigoff insists he harbors no dislike for Turkey.
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