Ira Tzourou

Founded in 1898, the school was one of the region’s most important educational institutions, with 12 classrooms, four languages echoing through its halls, and nearly a thousand students each year. The Elazığ Mezire Getronagan School may not have disappeared entirely, but with every passing day it grew a little smaller.

This colossal 70,000 seat mass of brutalist concrete, where the echoes of glorious football victories and some of the greatest diplomatic maneuvers in recent history once resounded, now hosts one of the saddest collective memories of the past every Sunday. Known as “Qrchi Bazaar,” this flea market has become an open-air museum stretching back to the dark 1990s, when, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, people put their household possessions and memories up for sale simply to survive.

The remains of an Armenian church in Özerli Neighborhood of Dörtyol district in Hatay, believed to be the Surp Krikor Lusavoriç Church built in 1877, have been abandoned to its fate for years.

After the top layer of asphalt was removed from Yerevan's main square, 17th century residential structures, remnants of stone walls, ceramic jars, clay water pipes, and black and red roof tiles emerged beneath it, astonishing construction workers.

In 1922, the brothers Tsolak and Aram Dildilyan permanently left Anatolia. With less than 24 hours to prepare, they, hurrying to pack their belongings, chose to leave behind their personal possessions so they could fit hundreds of glass negatives into their suitcases. Traveling via Odesa and Istanbul, they arrived in Piraeus as refugees during the second week of November 1922.