Roland MNATSAKANYAN
Sabanci University (Istanbul) just hosted an international workshop entitled “Adana: 1909: History, Memory, and Identity from a Hundred Year Perspective ” ( 6-7 November 2009). The workshop included scholars from the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Italy and Turkey. The event was sponsored by Gomidas Institute (London), Sabanci University, Istanbul Bilgi University History [...]

BİA News Center
The International Hrant Dink Foundation has based a film project with the theme of “conscience” upon a quotation of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was assassinated in 2007.
He had said: “The voice of common sense and of conscience has been sacrificed, now this conscience tries to find a way out.”
The [...]

Tolga KORKUT
BİA News Center
Armenian musician Aram Tigran’s wish to be buried in Diyarbakır, in the southeast of Turkey, has not been granted by the Ministry of the Interior.
Funeral planned in Brussels
His family has thus decided to bury him in the Armenian graveyard in Brussels. The funeral is planned to take place on 17 August.
Inhabitants of [...]

A memorial for slain journalist Hrant Dink has captured a lot of attention for a number of reasons, but one of the most interesting things is that it happens to include the first editorial video game to come out of Turkey.
Hrant Dink is not a well-known name in the United States, but the man has [...]

Bawer ÇAKIR
BIANET
On 24 April 1915, over 200 Armenian intellectuals were exiled and then killed. The Human Rights Association commemorated this loss to Armenian, Ottoman and Turkish society.
The Human Rights Association’s (İHD) Committee against Racism and Discrimination commemorated 24 April 1915, the day that Armenians worldwide recognise as the beginning of the forced exile of [...]

Robert KOPTAŞ
AGOS
Robert Koptaş from the Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos interviews bianet’s Ertuğrul Kürkçü, following the latter’s article entitled “An apology owed”, published in Turkish on bianet’s website on 19 January 2009.
The article “An apology owed” which Ertuğrul Kürkçü wrote for bianet on 19 January 2009, the second anniversary of the murder of Agos editor-in-chief Hrant [...]

Bawer ÇAKIR
BIANET
The findings of the second project of monitoring Turkish school books for human rights violations, run by the History Foundation and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, have been published as a book.
“…The father is the person who makes the living for the family. The mother is the father’s hepler, and she provides [...]

Kerem Demirbas has created Turkey’s first political game, “Huys,” which attempts to confront and render visual the nation’s ongoing struggle to come to terms with the haunting legacy of the 1915 genocide of Armenians committed by the then Ottoman Empire. “Huys,” which means hope, establishes a game world that draws attention to the recent murder [...]

Markar Esayan
AGOS
Existence has not yet been able to balance the dynamism, idealism, creativity, inexperience of the young and the experience, calmness, aptitude of the old and the hardening of the arteries in society caused by all these. The point of view that considers “the child” as a part of the homo sapiens species yet in [...]