Şişli Armenian Cemetery

	Şişli Armenian Cemetery The Şişli Armenian Cemetery is an Armenian cemetery in the Şişli district of Istanbul, Turkey which is operated and served by the Armenian community of Turkey. Notable burials * Hovhannes Arsharouni – Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople * Simon Agopyan – Painter * Zabel Sibil Asadour – Writer * Sevag Balıkçı – murdered conscript in Turkish Military * Zaven Biberyan – Writer * Hagop Dilacar – Linguist * Markar Esayan – Journalist and Politician * Mari Gerekmezyan – Sculptor * Harutyun Hanesyan – Musician * Udi Hrant – Musician * Garbis İstanbulluoğlu – Football Athlete * Toto Karaca – Actress * Sirvart Karamanuk – Composer and Pianist * Arman Manukyan – Professor * Matild Manukyan – Businesswoman * Malachia Ormanian – Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople * Stepan Papelyan – Musician * Maryam Şahinyan – Photographer * Nubar Terziyan – Actor * Onno Tunç Ohannes Tunçboyacıyan, better known as Onno Tunç (20 Dece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	The Main Gate Of Şişli Armenian Cemetery-2 ''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Udi Hrant Udi Hrant Kenkulian (; ; 1901 – August 29, 1978), often referred to as Udi Hrant (lit. "oud-player Hrant") or as Hrant Emre ("Hrant of the soul") was an oud player of Turkish classical music, and a key transitional figure in its transformation into a contemporary style of popular music. He was an ethnic Armenian citizen of Turkey who spent most of his life in Turkey and wrote most of his lyrics in Turkish. He concurrently composed and performed in Armenian as well, although to a much lesser degree. Kenkulian recorded numerous sides in the United States and Europe during his travels in the mid-20th century. As an oud player, he was a major innovator, introducing left-hand pizzicato, bidirectional picking (the tradition had been to use the pick only on the downstroke), double stops, and novel tunings (sometimes using open tunings or tuning the paired strings in octaves instead of to a single note). According to Harold G. Hagopian, he was most respected for his improvisational '' t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Zahrad Zareh Yaldizciyan (; 10 May 1924 – 20 February 2007), better known by his pen name Zahrad (), was a poet who lived in Turkey and wrote poems in the Armenian language. Biography Of Armenian descent, Zahrad was born in the Nişantaşı district of Istanbul, Turkey. His father, Movses, had been a jurist, adviser, and translator for the Ottoman Foreign Ministry. However, he had lost his father at the age of three. His mother, Ankine, was from the district of Samatya. Zahrad grew up with his maternal grandfather Levon Vartanyan. In 1942 he graduated from Özel Pangaltı Ermeni Lisesi, the local Mechitarist Armenian lyceum. He attended the Faculty University of Medicine in Istanbul but left in order to work. Due to the fear that his family wouldn't appreciate the fact that he wanted to be a poet, he changed his pen name to "Zahrad". In November 1963, he married Anayis Antreasian. Legacy Levon Ananyan, the president of the Writers Union of Armenia, characterized Zahrad as "th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Yervant Voskan Yervant Voskan (1855 in Istanbul – 1914 in Istanbul) was an Armenians, Armenian painter, sculptor, instructor, and administrator. He is the first known sculptor in modern Turkey, Turkish sculpture history and as the first sculpture teacher at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Sanay-i Nefise he educated the first generation of Turkey, Turkish sculptors. Early life and studies Yervant Voskan was born in 1855 in Samatya, Istanbul into an Armenians, Armenian family as the son of writer Hagop Voskan (1825 – 1907). His grandfather was Voskan Gotogyan of Erzurum, a foundryman at the Imperial Mint. After receiving his primary education from his father, he attended the Catholic Makruhyan Armenian School in Beşiktaş and the Pera Hayr Ananya school. In 1866, with the support of his family, he went to Venice to study at the Ca' Zenobio degli Armeni, Moorat-Raphael College. There he was a student of Luigi Qura. Later he continued his studies in Rome at the Rome Imperial Art School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Onno Tunç Ohannes Tunçboyacıyan, better known as Onno Tunç (20 December 1948 – 14 January 1996), was a leading Turkish musician of Armenian descent, working mainly as a composer, arranger and a music producer. Tunç also played bass guitar and occasionally double bass, contributing to the albums of several musicians. He was one of the prominent names of Turkish pop music in the 1980s and 1990s with his arrangements. He was the elder brother of musician Arto Tunçboyacıyan. Early years Of Armenian descent, Onno Tunç was born in 1948 in Istanbul. His music experience started with the church choir of Harur Mangaz (Hundred students). In his first year of middle school, he had to drop out to go to work to support his family. Born in a financially limited family, he could not afford a musical instrument although they fascinated him, until Anush ("Sweet" in Armenian), the mother of his friend Arman bought her son a guitar, and one for Onno too. Onno, a fast-learning autodidact, started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Nubar Terziyan Nubar Terziyan (; born Nubar Alyanak, 16 March 1908 – 14 January 1993) was a Turkish–Armenian actor. Biography Of Armenian descent, Nubar Terziyan was born in March 1909 in Istanbul. He went to Bezazyan Ermeni Lisesi (Bezazyan Armenian Lyceum) in Bakırköy. In 1940 he began his acting career and in 1949 had his first major role in an adaptation of Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar's ''Efsuncu Baba''. He acted in hundreds of films and several TV shows. He died at the age of 84 on 14 January 1994 and is buried at the Balıklı cemetery in Istanbul. Selected filmography # '' Efsuncu Baba'' (1949) .... Agop # '' İstanbul Çiçekleri'' (1951) # ''İstanbul'un Fethi'' (1951) # '' Ankara Ekspresi'' (1952) # ''Iki kafadar deliler pansiyonunda'' (1952) # '' İngiliz Kemal Lawrense Karşı'' (1952) .... Villager # '' Kanun namına'' (1952) .... Kamil # '' Kızıltuğ - Cengiz Han'' (1952) # '' Salgın'' (1952) # '' Edi ile Büdü Tiyatrocu'' (1952) # '' Edi ile Büdü'' (1953) # '' S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Maryam Şahinyan Maryam Şahinyan (; 1911 in Sivas – 1996 in Istanbul, Turkey) was a famed photographer who is considered the first woman studio photographer in Turkey. She was of Armenians in Turkey, Armenian descent. Life Maryam Şahinyan was born at Şahinyan Konağı, now known as the Camlı Köşk in the city center of Sivas, Turkey. Her family owned much land in the region, including thirty villages and five flour mills and her grandfather, Paşa, was the representative of Sivas in the first First Constitutional Era (Ottoman Empire), Ottoman Parliament. Her family lost their property and social standing during the Armenian Genocide, and moved to an apartment in the Harbiye, Şişli, Harbiye district of Istanbul. Şahinyan attended the local Armenian school Esayan and later the French Lycée Français Privé Sainte-Pulchérie. In 1936, Şahinyan's mother, Dikranuhi Şahinyan, died. Şahinyan was forced to leave school and start work for her father, Mihran, in the Galatasaray Photogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Stepan Papelyan Stepan Papelyan (; 187512November 1960) was an Armenian pedagogue, composer and writer. Biography Papelyan was born in Scutari (now Üsküdar) district of Constantinople Constantinople (#Names of Constantinople, see other names) was a historical city located on the Bosporus that served as the capital of the Roman Empire, Roman, Byzantine Empire, Byzantine, Latin Empire, Latin, and Ottoman Empire, Ottoman empire ... ow Istanbulin the Ottoman Empire">Istanbul">ow_Istanbul<_a>.html" ;"title="Istanbul.html" ;"title="ow Istanbul">ow Istanbul">Istanbul.html" ;"title="ow Istanbul">ow Istanbulin the Ottoman Empire. He attended the Berberian School and displayed an early interest in music. There he studied the piano with Avedis Horasandjian and later with composer Haroutioun Sinanian. However, his real calling was teaching. Papelyan developed the principles of his teaching method by examining various treatises on educational philosophy, by learning from experience and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Malachia Ormanian Malachia Ormanian (; 11 February 1841 – 19 November 1918) was the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople from 1896 to 1908. He was also a theologian, historian, and philologist. Life Boghos Ormanian (baptismal name), originated from an Armenians, Armenian Catholic family. He joined the Armenian Catholic Church, then studied in Rome, serving as an Armenian teacher to The Sacred Congregation ''de Propaganda Fide'' and was present at First Vatican Council. In 1879, he left the Armenian Catholic Church and was accepted as a priest in the Armenian Apostolic Church. By 1880, he was Primate of the Armenians in Erzerum. On 8 June 1886, he was arrested in Vagharshapat. From 1888 to 1896, he was head of the Armenian Seminary of Armash, Ottoman Empire, Armash near Izmit, following the forced resignation of Patriarch Matheos III. Ormanian was elected as Patriarch of Constantinople, of the Armenian Orthodox Church, on 6 November 1896, following the forced resignation of his predecessor by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Matild Manukyan Matild Manukyan (; 1914 – 17 February 2001) was a wealthy Turkish businesswoman of Armenian descent. She was a real property investor and madam who made a fortune in the brothel business, whereby she became the top taxpayer in Istanbul for five consecutive years during the 1990s. Biography She was born in 1914 to an aristocratic Armenian family in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. After finishing the French language-high school Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul, she opened an haute couture atelier for Istanbul's socialites. Soon, she lost her husband and had to live alone with her son. Manukyan leased the buildings she inherited from her father in the red-light district of Karaköy neighbourhood in Istanbul to brothel owners. One of the brothel owners handed over his business to her in order to settle a debt, and over the years, she expanded the number of brothels she owned to a chain of 32. She invested her opulent earnings from the sex business into real property. Manukyan was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Arman Manukyan Arman Manukyan (, 21 March 1931 – 28 December 2012) was a Turkish lecturer, writer, and economist of Armenian descent. Biography Arman Manukyan was born in the Tahta Minare neighborhood of Istanbul. His father Artin fought in the Çanakkale War and was decorated with the ''İstiklal'' (Independence) Medal of the emerging Turkish Republic. Artin was a shoe store owner and 30 years old when he married Eliz in 1930 and the couple had Arman, their first son in 1931. Manukyan started his early education in 1938 at the Mhitaryan Armenian school in the Şişli district of Istanbul. He graduated from his elementary studies and in 1945 he attended the prestigious Robert College. At Robert College he became good friends with future famed people such as Talât Sait Halman, Rahmi Koç, Oktay Yenal, and others. He graduated Robert College with an Economy and Commerce Degree in 1951. Due to his father's need of new technologies to upgrade his business, Manukyan traveled abroad many time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]