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Rober Koptaş
''Agos'' (in Armenian language, Armenian: Ակօս, "furrow") is a bilingual weekly newspaper published in Istanbul, Turkey, established on 25 February 1996 by Hrant Dink, Luiz Bakar, Harutyun Şeşetyan, and Anna Turay. ''Agos'' has both Armenian language, Armenian and Turkish language, Turkish pages as well as an online English language, English edition and sells about 3.000 physical copies every week. The newspaper is financially fully independent and aims to tackle problems regarding the Armenians in Turkey, Armenian community within Turkey, but also Turkey's internal matters regarding politics, society, culture, minority rights, human rights, and more. History Historical background, pre-1996 Before ''Agos'' introduced themselves in public life in Turkey, the 50.000-80.000 Armenians living within the Turkish borders were severely underrepresented; The only media outlets presenting this group were fully written in Armenian language, Armenian, even though only an estimated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrant Dink
Hrant Dink (; Western ; 15 September 1954 – 19 January 2007) was a Turkish-Armenian intellectual, editor-in-chief of ''Agos'', journalist, and columnist. As editor-in-chief of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper ''Agos'', Dink was a prominent member of the Armenian minority in Turkey best known for advocating Turkish–Armenian reconciliation and human and minority rights in Turkey. He was often critical of both Turkey's denial of the Armenian genocide and of the Armenian diaspora's campaign for its international recognition. Dink was prosecuted three times for denigrating Turkishness, while receiving numerous death threats from Turkish nationalists. Dink was assassinated in Istanbul on 19 January 2007 by Ogün Samast, a 17-year-old Turkish nationalist. Dink was shot three times in the head dying instantly. Photographs of the assassin flanked by smiling Turkish police and gendarmerie, posing with the killer side by side in front of the Turkish flag, surfaced. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varlık Vergisi
The Varlık Vergisi (, "wealth tax" or "capital tax") was a tax mostly levied on non-Muslim citizens under the Republican People's Party (CHP) government in Turkey in 1942, with the stated aim of raising funds for the country's defense in case of an eventual entry into World War II. The underlying reason for the tax was to inflict financial ruin on the minority Dhimmi, non-Muslim citizens of the country, end their prominence in the country's economy and transfer the assets of non-Muslims to the Muslim bourgeoisie. It was a discriminatory measure which taxed non-Muslims up to ten times more heavily and resulted in a significant amount of wealth and property being transferred to Muslims. Background The Şükrü Saracoğlu government introduced a bill for a one-off tax, which was approved by the Turkish Grand National Assembly, Turkish parliament on November 11, 1942. This tax targeted fixed assets, including landed estates, buildings, businesses, and industrial enterprises owned by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atsız Youth
The Atsız Youth () are a Turkish far-right organization based on the ideology of Nihal Atsız that was founded on May 3, 2005, in Bursa, Turkey. History It was announced that it is forbidden to bring the Flag of Azerbaijan in the Turkey-Armenia football match played in Bursa on October 14, 2009. Four members of the Atsiz Youth were detained by the police for planning to bring model planes with Azerbaijani flags into the stadium in the middle of the match. The Atsiz Youth, who participated in 2012 Taksim Square rally, on the anniversary of the Khojaly massacre, chanted and held banners that said "You are all Armenians, you are all bastards", and "bastards of Hrant don't scare us", as well as "Taksim Square today, Yerevan tomorrow, we will attack you suddenly at night". The rally was talked about on the media for days. It was stated that the group planned an attack against the BDP, Agos Newspaper and the French Consulate during the rally and also planned to attack the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hürriyet Daily News
The ''Hürriyet Daily News'', formerly ''Hürriyet Daily News and Economic Review'' and ''Turkish Daily News'', is the oldest current English-language daily in Turkey, founded in 1961. The paper was bought by the Doğan Media Group in 2001 and has been under the media group's flagship ''Hürriyet'' from 2006; both papers were sold to Demirören Holding in 2018. Ideology ''Hürriyet Daily News'' has generally taken a secular and liberal or centre-left position on most political issues, in contrast to Turkey's other main English-language daily, the '' Daily Sabah'', which is closely aligned with the Justice and Development Party of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister of Turkey, prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Jus .... Another conservative competitor, the Gülen movement-run '' Today's Zam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarkis Saropyan
Sarkis (, ) is a masculine given name and surname. The name may also be alternatively spelled/written as Sargis, used by both Armenians and Assyrians. People with the mononym Notable figures who use "Sarkis" as a mononym include: * Sargis the General or Sarkis the Warrior, a 4th century martyr and military saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church ** Saint Sarkis Monastery of Ushi, in Armenia * Sarkis, the name of three Armenian patriarchs of Jerusalem * Sarkis I of Armenia, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church 992–1019 * Sarkis II the Relic-Carrier, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church 1469–1474 * Sarkis Rizzi (1572–1638), head of the Maronite Church 1581–1597 * Aïbeg and Serkis, 13th century Mongol envoys to Europe * Sergius and Bacchus, or variant spellings, 4th century Syrian Christian soldiers revered as martyrs and military saints People with the given name Notable people who use "Sarkis" as a given name include: *Sarkis Acopian (1926–2007), invent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arat Dink
Arat Dink (Արատ Դինք born 1979) is a Turkish Armenian journalist and the executive editor of ''Agos'', a bilingual Turkish Armenian weekly newspaper published in Istanbul. He is the son of Rakel Dink and Hrant Dink, the former editor-in-chief of the same paper, who was murdered by Ogün Samast, a Turkish ultra-nationalist who was seventeen years old at the time. Trial on Hrant Dink's assassination Arat Dink was brought to trial as a co-defendant as the executive editor of Agos along with Serkis Seropyan, holder of the weekly's publishing license in the third and last case that was opened against Hrant Dink on charges of 'denigrating Turkishness' under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code. The charge was pressed in September 2006 after Agos republished a 14 July 2006 interview of Hrant Dink by the Reuters news agency where Hrant Dink referred to the 1915 massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide. The charges against Hrant Dink were dropped in the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrant Dink Assassination
The prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was assassinated in Istanbul on 19 January 2007. Dink was a newspaper editor who had written and spoken about the Armenian genocide and was well known for his efforts for reconciliation between Turks and Armenians and his advocacy of human and minority rights in Turkey. At the time of his death, he was on trial for violating Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code and "denigrating Turkishness". His murder sparked both massive national protests in Turkey itself as well as widespread international outrage. Dink's assassination was conducted by triggerman Ogün Samast who was sentenced to at least 25 years in prison. The mastermind of the assassination Erhan Tuncel received 99 1/2 years in prison. Death threats Dink had long endured threats by extreme Turkish nationalists for his statements on Armenian identity and the Armenian Genocide. He regularly received emails threatening his life, responding in one instance by comparing h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aris Nalci
Aris or ARIS may refer to: People * Aris (surname) Given name * Aris Alexandrou, Greek writer * Aris Brimanis, ice hockey player * Aris Christofellis, Greek male soprano * Aris Gavelas, Greek sprinter * Aris Konstantinidis, Greek architect * Aris Maliagros, Greek actor * Aris Poulianos (1924–2021), Greek anthropologist and archaeologist * Aris Spiliotopoulos (born 1966), Greek politician * Aris Tatarounis (born 1989), Greek basketball player * Aris Velouchiotis (1905–1945), Greek guerrilla fighter in the 1940s * Aris Xevghenis (born 1981), Greek footballer Fictional characters * Aris Kristatos, in the James Bond film ''For Your Eyes Only'' Places * A settlement in the Windhoek Rural constituency of Namibia * Arış, Azerbaijan * Aris, Bern, a village in the municipality of Reichenbach im Kandertal in the Swiss canton of Bern * Aris, Messenia, a municipality in Greece, next to a river by the same name Sports clubs * A Greek sports club in Thessaloniki, Aris Thessaloniki: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
