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Agos' archive: 1936 declaration - sword of Damocles
Agos' archive: 1936 declaration - sword of Damocles
Today, in Agos' archive, there is "1936 Declaration".Consituting the ground for seizing the properties of the minority foundations, "1936 Declaration" was the subject of a news report that was published in Agos in 1988.
13 November 2015 Haber Merkezi
Martin van Bruinessen: Turkish state will eventually come to table with PKK
Martin van Bruinessen: Turkish state will eventually come to table with PKK
Having contributed and conduced to many researches on Kurds and Kurdistan, Martin Bruinessen talked to Agos about the current condition of Kurdish question.
12 November 2015 Nazan Özcan
Agos' archive: Once, there was Saruhan
Agos' archive: Once, there was Saruhan
Today, in Agos' archive, there is an article by Sarkis Seropyan, who passed away last year and who was the Armenian editor and the "memory" of Agos.Seropyan commemorates Aleksandr Saruhan, the only world-renowned Armenian caricaturist, on the anniversary of his death.
11 November 2015 Sarkis Seropyan
Agos' archive: Hrant Dink- they considered us as strangers
Agos' archive: Hrant Dink- they considered us as strangers
We continue sharing our archive with an article by Hrant Dink, in which he tells about his memories of Kamp Armen. In this article, which was published again in the first issue after Dink’s assassination, he reveals the desperate condition of the camp.
9 November 2015
“Distorted historical narrative is not Netanyahu’s invention”
“Distorted historical narrative is not Netanyahu’s invention”
Author of “Islam and Nazi Germany's war”, David Motadel answered our questions about Netanyahu’s recent statement.
31 October 2015 Vartan Estukyan
Who is who in the investigation of Hrant Dink’s assassination?
Who is who in the investigation of Hrant Dink’s assassination?
Here is a list of some important public officials who are and are not included in the bill of indictment.
31 October 2015 Uygar Gültekin
Story of a reversed migration from Diyarbakir to Aleppo, an endless longing
Story of a reversed migration from Diyarbakir to Aleppo, an endless longing
Every single day, some terrible news about the immigrants from Syria comes to the fore. So, in these days, we would like to share the visual diary of the forced migration that the father and grandparents of our photography editor Berge Arabian went through. In 1930, they hit the road from Diyarbakir to Aleppo. The exhibition that was opened in Diyarbakir on May 23 will visit Istanbul and Erivan, and the book that is based on this exhibition is being prepared now. Armenians are one of the communities that history challenged with migrations and they had always been migrating in the Middle East which is stirred by civil wars. This story, which is like a reversed migration, is rather an expression of longing. It is like a gloomy “uzun hava” to the lost home, Diyarbakir.
11 September 2015 Berge Arabian
Vicken Cheterian: Kurds replaced the Armenians
Vicken Cheterian: Kurds replaced the Armenians
Journalist and historian Vicken Cheterian wrote a book which assesses the effects of Armenian genocide on global politics, academic research, Kurdish question, Turkish and Armenian societies during the process that has been going on for 100 years. Focusing mainly on the post genocide period, Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide considers Hrant Dink’s assassination as a milestone.
1 August 2015 Tuğba Esen
The architect of the ‘internal enemy’ concept
The architect of the ‘internal enemy’ concept
Bahaeddin Şakir, who in March 1915 arrived from Erzurum to Istanbul, was convinced that Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa, or the infamous intelligence network Special Organization, had to now focus on the ‘internal enemy’. The report he presented to the Central Committee of the Union and Progress Party was influential in the decision for ‘deportation’.
8 May 2015 Mehmet Polatel
‘If you are sending me there to deport the Armenians, I can’t do that!’
‘If you are sending me there to deport the Armenians, I can’t do that!’
A hand reached out to the rescue of Armenians when the inhuman deportation order was sent from the Union and Progress HQ to the Konya province. That hand belonged to Governor Mehmet Celal Bey (1863-1926).
10 April 2015 Ari Şekeryan
Doctor Reşid, the Diyarbekir executioner
Doctor Reşid, the Diyarbekir executioner
In 1913, Mehmet Reşid was appointed governor of Karesi, a region that could almost be described as the testing ground of the Armenian Genocide. Reşid Bey played a significant role in the forced deportation of Greeks from the region, and this ‘success’ brought him the rank of the General Secretary of the General Inspectorate for the provinces of Van, Bitlis, Diyarbekir and Mamuretülaziz. He was appointed to this post because Interior Minister Talaat Pasha considered him “active, competent and patriotic”.
10 April 2015 Emre Can Dağlıoğlu
‘Questioning official discourse is the path to recognition’
‘Questioning official discourse is the path to recognition’
Raymond Kévorkian’s work ‘The Armenian Genocide’, a masterpiece in its field, has been published in Turkish by the İletişim Publishing House. In addition to how the book came about, we spoke to Kévorkian about Turkey’s policies regarding the Genocide.
5 April 2015 Maral Dink
Now they will meet on the other side
Now they will meet on the other side
Brother Sarkis has passed away, and it is his work and his memory that remain. For over forty years, we shared a common fate and friendship. Although we did not agree on everything, we were people of the same world. When I look back now I see that when we came together, or spoke on the telephone, we only spoke about Armenian language, literature and culture, as if it were the only topic in our lives.
4 April 2015
1915 - 2015
1915 - 2015
28 March 2015
“Since I won’t commit these murders, please accept my resignation!”
“Since I won’t commit these murders, please accept my resignation!”
Kütahya Governor Faik Ali Ozansoy was one of those who displayed the courage to stand up to the Union and Progress government to protect the Armenians during the inferno of 1915. In our “Rescuer” series, Ari Şekeryan sheds light on Ozansoy’s struggle, and how Armenians thanked him.
27 March 2015 Ari Şekeryan
Social engineer: Şükrü Kaya
Social engineer: Şükrü Kaya
Social engineering was an important method applied by the Committee of Union and Progress in establishing relationships between State and society. This policy, with aspects of resettlement, assimilation and slaughter, appears clearly in the ideological and political progress of Union and Progress members. The Union and Progress Party’s policy of Turkification and Islamisation, applied across the empire, was adopted by the Kemalists for the new Republic. Şükrü Kaya was a member of the elite group of actors who implemented these policies.
27 March 2015 Mehmet Polatel
Gülizar’s story brings people together
Gülizar’s story brings people together
The exhibition titled ‘Spectography: Tracing the Ghosts’ opened at Depo on March 14, and Arménouhie Kévonian’s book ‘Gülizar’s Black Wedding’, published by the Aras Publishing House in Turkish, was also launched during the opening. The exhibition features the photographs and videos of three Swiss artists, Anna Barsaghian, Stefan Kristensen and Uriel Orlow, produced during their travels across Anatolia.
27 March 2015 Lora Sarı
A mirror called Gülizar
A mirror called Gülizar
Entrusted to her daughter fifty years after she was abducted, the memoirs of Gülizar have been published in Turkish by the Aras Publishing House with the title ‘Gülizar’s Black Wedding’. Gülizar’s story contains messages for us all…
27 March 2015 Karin Karakaşlı
Those who defied orders in Diyarbekir
Those who defied orders in Diyarbekir
Along with Mamuretül Aziz, the Diyarbekir Province is an area where we encounter the highest number of instances of disobedience during the Armenian Genocide, or where the most accounts of disobedience have reached the present day. The sense among communities in the area that “with 1915, there was an irreversible rupture in our fate as well” is perhaps the most important factor in that the memory of the period has remained so vivid in the region.
20 March 2015 Burçin Gerçek
Governor of Genocide, Minister of Republic: Abdülhalik Renda
Governor of Genocide, Minister of Republic: Abdülhalik Renda
The assignment during the Republican Period of important tasks in matters such as the settlement of immigrants and the Kurdish question to former Union and Progress members like Mustafa Abdülhalik Renda who played active roles in the perpetration of the Armenian Genocide, clearly shows that social engineering policy of Union and Progress influenced the violence, enforced migration and assimilation practices of the State in the Republican Period.
20 March 2015 Mehmet Polatel
‘In 1915 the State openly declared war upon its Armenian citizens’
‘In 1915 the State openly declared war upon its Armenian citizens’
The guest on March 5 of the Thursday Talks organized by the History Foundation was Nevzat Onaran. Onaran presented a speech titled ‘The Code of 1915: Emval-i Metruke/Abandoned Properties’ and we talked to him about the continuity of the economic policy based on liquidification, and the laws that enabled that continuity.
20 March 2015 Emre Can Dağlıoğlu
‘The Government’s inner conflict is a good sign’
‘The Government’s inner conflict is a good sign’
Executive director of HRW Middle East and North Africa Division Sarah Leah Whitson will be visiting Istanbul on April 24 as part of the ‘Project 2015’ group to take part in the Armenian Genocide 100th Anniversary Commemoration. We interviewed Whitson in Istanbul, where she held meetings with civilian society organizations in Turkey, which will participate in the organization of the commemoration event; and asked her about Turkey’s position in 2015, the Diaspora’s expectations and the impact of Armenian identity on her life.
30 January 2015 Gözde Kazaz
Editorial: They all have dirt on their hands
Editorial: They all have dirt on their hands
The Hrant Dink murder is seen by the ruling party as a weapon that can be used against the Gülen movement. This is an ugly plan in which one of the country’s greatest tests of justice is being instrumentalized.
10 December 2014
This is the best response to those who say ‘Armenians should bring out their documents’
This is the best response to those who say ‘Armenians should bring out their documents’
Zakarya Mildanoğlu’s book ‘Armenian Periodicals 1794-2000’ has been published by Aras Yayıncılık. Mildanoğlu’s work brings together around 3650 Armenian periodicals from the year 1794, when the first Armenian newspaper Aztarar was published, until the year 2000. We talked with Zakarya Mildanoğlu about his book which is the product of around 30 years of work, and the over 200 year history of Armenian periodicals.
7 November 2014
Agos's Archive: How did Saint Theodore Church become Kurşunlu Mosque?
Agos's Archive: How did Saint Theodore Church become Kurşunlu Mosque?
In Agos' archive, there is a journey to the history of Kurşunlu Mosque in Sur province of Diyarbakir, which was damaged because of a fire caused by bombs recently. Here is the story of Saint Theodore Church's transformation to Kurşunlu Mosque by Sarkis Seropyan.
12 September 2014 Sarkis Seropyan