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He looked at the paper, then at me. And almost in a whisper, he asked: “My girl… These won’t come out somewhere, will they? If they ever put me in jail, I couldn’t survive even a single day in there.” A century passed since the events he was about to describe, but fear was still speaking in the present tense.

The 23.5 book, published by the 23.5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory, founded in 2019 at the site where Hrant Dink was assassinated on January 19, 2007, is now available in Turkish and English. Shaped around the themes of Memory, Truth, Confrontation, Action, and Hope, 23.5 invites us to think together about a future in which coexistence is possible.

The exhibition “70TK: From Tatavla to Kurtuluş” will be open until 1 October. We met with its curator Dr. Banu Pekol, to talk about the project.

Issue of migration preoccupies many people in Turkey as the political atmosphere gets increasingly tenser. In a time like this, we wanted to get together with Armenians of Turkey who migrated to Armenia, the closest and most distant neighbor, during the hard periods of recent history and report their first-hand accounts. These people, who told about their lives with a great sincerity, revealed human's power and hope of starting over.