Goodreads asked Jon Cocks:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Jon Cocks 'Angel of Aleppo' was inspired by my Armenian wife Lilit’s own grandmother Anoush, who witnessed a Turkish soldier murder her own mother in 1915. When I first connected with Lilit in 2009, I quickly decided that I needed to learn more about Armenia. It did not take me long to ‘discover’ the 1915 Armenian Genocide.

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