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History revived by a tombstone
An old house built with traditional architecture in Karacaköy, Çatalca, 100 km away from Istanbul, looking with a tired face from the past centuries. While the residents of the house, who want to renew the flooring, are working downstairs, they suddenly take a break in amazement, and a tombstone written in the Greek alphabet appears from the ground. When the meaning is deciphered, the following is revealed: “Here lies Chrysoula Rodaki, servant of God, March 1887”. What follows is director Kerem Soyyılmaz's journey in search of the former owners of his grandparents' house. His aunt and cousins, who spent the most time in that house, accompany him on this journey. Searching for Rodakis, won the Best Documentary Film Award at the Adana Golden Boll Film Festival last year, among many other awards. The movie is also available on BluTV.
13 October 2024
Pınar Öğünç
A political prisoner Armenian woman in an Ottoman prison
In the light of what we know so far, this book can be described as "the first prison memoir written by a woman in the Ottoman Empire". In her foreword, Lerna Ekmekçioğlu also states that it is generally the first prison memoir written by a woman in the Middle East. So who was Vartuhi Kalantar? What caused her to be tried in the Martial Court and imprisoned in the General Prison?
6 October 2024
Pınar Öğünç
“There is an uneasiness like a birth pain”
She is among those who stand in front of, among those who resist, in the midst of an attack that forces children and 80-year-old people to work, leaves young people alone towards a pitch-black future, pushes women either to their homes or to unregistered jobs, and in short, workers' rights are being scythed day by day. Neslihan Acar, 38, is the cahirperson of DGD-SEN, the independent union representing warehouse, port, shipyard and maritime workers. When we add the other strikes, vigils and protests that have sprouted under the umbrella of other unions affiliated to UMUT-SEN, 24 hours of her life are filled with this struggle.
4 October 2024
Pınar Öğünç
Constitutional Court: Ban on Hrant Dink Foundation’s Kayseri Conference is a violation of rights
The Constitutional Court (AYM) in Türkiye, has ruled that the Kayseri Governorship’s ban on the Hrant Dink Foundation’s conference planned to be held in Kayseri on October 18-19, 2019, constitutes a “violation of the right to organize meetings and demonstrations.”
19 September 2024
Wild tourism makes us say: “turists go home!”
The other damage of over-tourism is at the economic level. Those who have experience in Turkey's tourism hotspots will know that this is a factor that drives up prices in everything from services to health; the local economy, temporarily inflated by tourism, spends the rest of the year suffering from this damage. Accommodating so many people creates a different range of problems: Rental prices generally increase due to houses rented to tourists in various forms. This increase can reach a level that forces city residents to migrate to other "tourism-free" regions. Although mass tourism may periodically appear to be an area of employment for those living in that region, it is not reflected on the local residents as the tourism sector is based on the “tourism” and transfer of cheap labor at the national level. All over the world, the tourism industry is characterized by labor exploitation and conditions that disregard workers' rights and sometimes even human dignity.
12 September 2024
Pınar Öğünç
Did we face September 6-7?
My mother also witnessed the September 6th-7th (1955) pogrom when she was a teenager. Sometimes she would tell stories about how the mob passing in front of their house in Kumkapı Nişanca and headed for the student dormitory where the local Greek girls were staying at the other end of the street. She would always stop talking there and wouldn’t continue. I wouldn’t ask either.
6 September 2024
Yetvart Danzikyan
Hrant Dink Award Ceremony on September 15th
The award will be presented, as every year, on Hrant Dink’s birthday, September 15th.
5 September 2024
“It is very difficult to live in a society with a strong death drive”
As soon as the government's debate on “euthanasia” of stray animals, an irrational concept for this issue, became law and was published in the Official Gazette, news of massacres started coming from all over Turkey. The images of dogs and cats tortured to death are blood-curdling. Even more frightening is the social consent behind these scenes and what they may lead to over time. We talked about the subject with psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Specialist Dr. Didem Aksüt, because we need it.
5 September 2024
Pınar Öğünç
The potential of digital urban activism
Social media is a big cauldron, and a cauldron full of useless, deliberately manipulative messages. Although it is necessary to be visible and stand out, prioritizing its requirements can also cripple such digital activism. In this sense, Yaşar Adanalı's suggestion is that rather than relying on the power of a collective account that brings everyone's experience together, more residents/activists should produce video content for this purpose and the resulting pressure should lead institutions and initiatives working in the field to change their communication strategies. Programs that have a community-building perspective and work like an "impact academy" will thus feed digital activism.
11 August 2024
Pınar Öğünç
“We have to overcome the threats by ourselves”
As we left the July 8-14 Nonbinary Awareness Week behind, we talked to Şükrü and Ceylin from Demir Leblebi about the difficulties LGBTIQ+s face in education and housing from a queer perspective
11 August 2024
Deniz Kaya
Dark rivers
The report, which is the result of an eight-day field research in the Büyük Menderes Basin, goes deeper by focusing on a specific region, but it does not stop there. It also has a perspective that reaches from this river to the seas of the world; for example, it draws a pattern of environmental destruction with lines drawn from a village in Aydın to the global scale. Scientific data strengthens the report, but the report transforms the narrative into a “story” without drowning the reader in data, sometimes like a diary, sometimes with notches from literature and psychology.
29 July 2024
Pınar Öğünç
An Armenian LGBTQ+ community in Los Angeles: Galas
During June, we witnessed Pride Marches in many parts of the world, some of them could be held and some of them couldn’t be done. These marches contain numerous stories and experiences. The story of LGBTQ+ people who had to become immigrants comes to mind. Lia, from the GALAS LGBTQ+ Community established in Los Angeles, talked about the difficulties faced by queer Armenians in addition to being queer as an immigrant.
15 July 2024
Bottomless pits of history
This is not a classic family history search story. Uskan investigates her grandmother, who passed away when Uskan was 16, and whose Armenian identity she knew nothing about because grandmother kept it a secret, and of course her mother Maria, in her village, through official documents and possible church records. This is a search that considers it natural not to find anything because it Uskan aware of what has happened. She wanders through the narrow streets of Adana, the dilapidated corridors of the Apkarian School, and the wild nature of the countryside, turning the camera into a hand that touches the present.
14 July 2024
Pınar Öğünç
Açık Radyo punished for mentioning the 'Armenian Genocide'
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) canceled the license of Açık Radyo, to which it had previously imposed administrative fines and 5 suspensions of broadcasting due to the statement "Armenian genocide". Açık Radyo published a statement regarding the development.
5 July 2024
Becoming commonplace of de facto state of emergency
We will get to the data, but what we will eventually reach is thought-provoking. The HRFT (Human Rights Foundation of Turkey) describes this process as "a progression from a state practice that systematically rights violations to the total abandonment of the idea of a rights-based regime". Universal law, of which Turkey is a part, fails to deter perpetrators. An equally important result is that these violations of rights take place in front of the eyes of the wider society and become normalized. In fact, places of torture have gone beyond the boundaries of four walls and spread to peaceful demonstrations expressing the demands for the most basic democratic rights and freedom of expression.
30 June 2024
Pınar Öğünç
The restoration of Diyarbakır Surp Sarkis Church has started
The restoration of the Surp Sarkis Armenian Church in Diyarbakır began with prayers. The prayer was led by Sahak Maşalyan, the Patriarch of the Armenian community in Turkey. Patriarch Maşalyan also delivered messages about the Armenians' history in the region.
28 June 2024
"I didn't even realize how strong I was"
44-year-old Nejla Işık was one of those women who stood guard without caring about gas, water and batons. She witnessed the transformation of this geography, which she was born in and which she doted on, into a "hellhole", and she cut olive trees with her hands, crying, so that they would not be buried under the ground. She has always been at the forefront of the resistance, together with the older generation of her family in their 80s and her two children in their 20s. In the March 31 local elections, Işık was elected as the mukhtar of İkizköy and a new phase of her life began. Apart from its significance for the Akbelen Resistance, this new phase also contains the story of a woman transformed around the environmental movement.
18 June 2024
Pınar Öğünç
Call to Remember and Build an Alternative Future
The 23.5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory invites you to attend a series of commemorative events.
20 April 2024
Hate Speech in the Press: Selections from October, November and December
Hrant Dink Foundation has been conducting the project titled “Media Watch on Hate Speech” since 2009. The report for October, November and December 2023 has been published.
25 February 2024
"Everything and everyone may be killed, yet conscience, benevolence, courage cannot be killed"
Hrant Dink, the founder and the editor-in-chief of our newspaper, was commemorated on the spot where he was assassinated 17 years ago. The commemoration held in front of the Sebat Building, which used to house the office of Agos, was attended by a big crowd. This year's memorial speech was delivered by author and journalist Oya Baydar, a friend of Hrant Dink. A message sent by Çiğdem Mater, a member of the 'Friends of Hrant' initiative, imprisoned under the Gezi Trials since April 2022, was read by Hanım Tosun, a member of Saturday Mothers/People.
19 January 2024
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Hope and despair among Karabakh Armenians
On September 19, Azerbaijan launched a military operation against Nagorno-Karabakh. A ceasefire was reached on September 20 as the Nagorno-Karabakh (Republic of Artsakh) administration accepted the conditions. Right after the ceasefire, Karabakh Armenians took refuge in Armenia. After the war that followed the 9-month blockade imposed by Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh, 100 thousand ethnic Armenians had to leave their homes and took refuge in Armenia along with only a few belongings. Some of the displaced Karabakh (Artsakh) Armenians had a place to go in Armenia. However, a significant portion of them found themselves homeless and without a future. Pakrat Estukyan and Berge Arabian from Agos, travelled throughout Armenia in a one-week journalistic trip, meeting with displaced persons and non-governmental organisations. Agos will publish Estukyan's impressions and Arabian's photos as a series of articles. This week's coverage features interviews and impressions from the first day of the trip to Armenia.
10 November 2023
Pakrat Estukyan
Call by citizens of Turkey to international community to end the blockade of Karabakh
The blockade implemented by Azerbaijan on the Lachin corridor has passed eight months and has led to a humanitarian crisis. A group of Turkish writers, politicians and rights defenders called on the international community to take action:
16 August 2023
Earthquake and state
They do not want anyone to shine out, but at the same time they are incapable of doing what should be done. It cannot be said that this situation is independent from the regime that has been created in Turkey and its mentality of governance. State is always authoritarian in Turkey, but Erdogan regime has turned this to totalitarianism.
18 February 2023
Ohannes Kılıçdağı
The 16th anniversary of Hrant Dink's assassination commemorated today
Thousands of people gathered at the sight where he was killed. This year's memorial speech was delivered by Turkish film director Emin Alper.
19 January 2023
Reflections on the Prag Summit
Russia has been concerned with the US and EU mediation in the peace process between Azerbaijan and Armenia, and the deployment of civilian mission from the Western countries along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border is seen as an attempt to extend the Western influence on the region where the Russian influence might gradually fade away as the result of Russia's war against Ukraine.
16 October 2022
Diana Yayloyan
This week in the English version of digital Agos (e-newspaper):
26 September 2022
More than 250 signatures from the Armenian community
The new regulation, which will allow for the Board of Directors of Minority Foundations to be elected by voters, is expected to be published soon. However, according to rumours, the elections of hospital foundations will either be postponed or excluded from the scope of the elections. More than 250 people from the Armenian community signed the text on the Facebook page of the Düşünce (Thought) Platform and said, "Failure to hold elections for any of our foundations, especially foundations that serve as cornerstones of our hospitals, is a violation of people’s right to elect and be elected, as well as the disregarding of the Armenian community."
13 April 2022
“Armenia at Antalya”
Although much of the Antalya event was focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Armenian foreign minister was a sought-after guest, with great media interest. The Armenian participation was significant for two main reasons.
15 March 2022
Richard Giragosian
My beloved ’Chutag’
Hrant Dink's wife, Rakel Dink, gave a speech at this year's Hrant Dink commemoration. She called Hrant Dink 'My Violin' as she always did.
20 January 2022
How may Sourp Minas Church be saved?
Ahmet Sabri Ergin, the owner of St. Minas Church remained in the middle of urban transformation in Gezköy of Erzurum, talked to Agos. Ergin says he is not against a duly restoration of the building and he is ready to allocate it to the municipality on the condition that it is transformed to a cultural center, but he has not received any reply to his offer.
28 December 2021
Aris Nalcı
This week in the English version of digital Agos (e-newspaper):
28 December 2021
New: English pages in digital version of Agos
Hereafter, there will be English pages in the digital version of Agos.
15 November 2021
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