“Go Tell Your Troubles to Marko Pasha”
About four months ago, I wrote an article for Civilnet and explained how events of a scale that might…
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Author: Rober Koptas Ռոպէր Քօփթաշ
Can Turkey Be Reformed?
At the beginning of the 20th century, different peoples living in the Ottoman Empire were trying to…
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A lifetime of exile in Istanbul
– “Oh doctor!” he said, “Please, quickly save me from this tonsil trouble. Do it swiftly…
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Open Radio Closed Country
Is there another country in the world whose agenda exhausts and batters its people as much as Turkey’s?…
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At the Table of the Sun
– The European Championship has just begun, a kind of ritual that comes around every four years…
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Martiros Saryan, Serge Avedikian and Gaza
When the painter Martiros Saryan visited Istanbul in 1910, he was on the verge of entering a highly…
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Eternal Manouchian: To the Pantheon or to the Crowds?
Misak Manouchian. A hero of the French Resistance, the militant rebel against the Nazis, the symbol…
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Letter from Istanbul: Towards the Future with Hrant Dink
January 12th afternoon, I was invited to Hrant Dink 23.5 Site of Memory to speak about the “Insufficient…
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Letter from Istanbul: Turkish Republic of Impunity
Last month, just days after Hrant Dink’s murderer was released, leaving a significant wound in the…
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Letter from Istanbul: The Irony of the Armenian Photographer
We lost Ara Güler in 2018. Just one month ago, on October 9th, the unexpected death of another –…
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