Emil Adelkhanov was born in Vorkutlag in a family of political prisoners . His father was a Ukrainian linguist and Esperanto specialist Naum Steinberg ( 1914 — 1969 ) , his mother was an Armenian Genocide survivor Arfenik Adelkhanova ( 1905 — 1950 ) , whose family managed to flee from Turkey in 1915 and settled down in Tbilisi , and who later was involved in local politics . He was raised first by his grandfather , Shimon Steinberg , and after 1955 by his maternal aunt , Dekhtsanik Adelkhanova , who adopted two of her nephews and changed their names . In 1969 , he graduated from the philological faculty of Tbilisi State University , and started to work as an English translator . In the early 1970s he became a distributor of Samizdat in Tbilisi , including the works by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Nadezhda Mandelstam . Throughout 1970s and 1980s he was collecting data and writing articles for the Chronicle of Current Events , covering Transcaucasia . He played an active role in the struggle for the human rights of Meskhetian Turks and other ethnic minorities in Georgia . From 1992 until the end of his life , he worked at the newly founded Caucasus Institute for Peace , Democracy and Development
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Emil Adelkhanov