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Hasan Cemal
Hasan Cemal (born 1944) is a Turkish journalist and writer. He was the editor of Cumhuriyet from 1981 to 1992, and of Sabah from 1992 to 1998. In 2013 he resigned from the Milliyet newspaper after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had criticised his article supporting Milliyet's publication of minutes of a parliamentary visit to Abdullah Öcalan, and Milliyet suspended him and refused to publish his returning column. Hurriyet Daily News, 19 March 2013Daily Milliyet parts ways with prominent journalist Cemal after İmralı leaks debate/ref> Cemal is the grandson of Djemal Pasha, one of the "Three Pashas" who led the Ottoman Empire during World War I. He is known for acknowledging and apologizing for the Armenian genocide, which was perpetrated in part by his grandfather and his colleagues. His 2012 book on the subject (written in response to the 2007 assassination of his friend Hrant Dink) is titled ''1915: Ermeni Soykırımı'' (English: ''1915: Armenian Genocide''). Early li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul
Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics of Turkey, population of Turkey. Istanbul is among the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest cities in Europe and List of cities proper by population, in the world by population. It is a city on two continents; about two-thirds of its population live in Europe and the rest in Asia. Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus—one of the world's busiest waterways—in northwestern Turkey, between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea. Its area of is coterminous with Istanbul Province. Istanbul's climate is Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean. The city now known as Istanbul developed to become one of the most significant cities in history. Byzantium was founded on the Sarayburnu promontory by Greek colonisation, Greek col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circassians In Turkey
Circassians in Turkey refers to people born in or residing in Turkey that are of Circassian origin. The Circassians are one of the largest ethnic minorities in Turkey, with a population estimated to be two million, or according to the EU reports, three. Circassians are a Caucasian people, and although the Circassians in Turkey were assimilated to some degree, a portion of the diaspora still speaks their native Circassian languages as it is still spoken in many Circassian villages, and the group that preserved their language the best are the Kabardians.Papşu, Murat (2003)Çerkes dillerine genel bir bakış Kafkasya ve Türkiye. Nart Dergisi, Mart-Nisan 2003, Sayı:35 With the rise of Circassian nationalism in the 21st century, Circassians in Turkey, especially the young, have started to study and learn their language. The Circassians in Turkey mostly identify as Muslim. The largest association of Circassians in Turkey, KAFFED, was the founding member of the International C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turgut Ozal
Turgut is a Turkish given name. Turgut may also refer to: Given name * Turgut Alp (died 1334/35), Ottoman military commander ** Turgut Alp (fictional character), a character based on Turgut Alp in ''Diriliş: Ertuğrul'' * Turgut Atakol (1915–1988), Turkish basketball player * Turgut Aykaç (born 1958), former Turkish boxer * Turgut Berkes (1953–2018), Turkish rock musician, painter, and writer * Turgut Göle (1913–2002), Turkish politician * Turgut Karataş (1963–2024), Turkish Romani singer, known as Ankaralı Turgut * Turgut Özal (1927–1993), Turkish president and political leader * Turgut Özatay (1927–2002), Turkish film actor * Turgut Polat (born 1993), Turkish table tennis player * Turgut Reis (1485–1565), Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral as well as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Mediterranean; and first Bey, later Pasha, of Tripoli * Turgut Doğan Şahin (born 1988), Turkish footballer * Turgut Toydemir (1938–2024), Turkish architect * Turgut U� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gomidas Institute
The Gomidas Institute (GI; ) is an independent academic institution "dedicated to modern Armenian and regional studies." Its activities include research, publications and educational programmes. It publishes documents, monographs, memoirs and other works on modern Armenian history and organizes lectures and conferences. The institute was founded in 1992 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. It is based in London and maintains a United States branch in Cleveland. British-Armenian historian Ara Sarafian serves as its executive director. Since 1998, the institute has been publishing a quarterly journal titled ''Armenian Forum'' ( ). The institute is named after Komitas (''Gomidas'' in Western Armenian Western Armenian ( ) is one of the two standardized forms of Modern Armenian, the other being Eastern Armenian. It is based mainly on the Istanbul Armenian dialect, as opposed to Eastern Armenian, which is mainly based on the Yerevan Arme ... pronunciation). Notewo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenians
Armenians (, ) are an ethnic group indigenous to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.Robert Hewsen, Hewsen, Robert H. "The Geography of Armenia" in ''The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times Volume I: The Dynastic Periods: From Antiquity to the Fourteenth Century''. Richard G. Hovannisian (ed.) New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997, pp. 1–17 Armenians constitute the main demographic group in Armenia and constituted the main population of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh until their Flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians, subsequent flight due to the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, 2023 Azerbaijani offensive. There is a large Armenian diaspora, diaspora of around five million people of Armenian ancestry living outside the Republic of Armenia. The largest Armenian populations exist in Armenians in Russia, Russia, the Armenian Americans, United States, Armenians in France, France, Armenians in Georgia, Georgia, Iranian Armenians, Iran, Armenians in Germany, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsitsernakaberd
The Armenian Genocide Memorial complex (, ''Hayots tseghaspanutyan zoheri hushahamalir'', or Ծիծեռնակաբերդ, '' Tsitsernakaberd'') is Armenia's official memorial Armenian genocide recognition, dedicated to the victims of the Armenian genocide, built in 1967 on the hill of Tsitsernakaberd () in Yerevan. Every year on 24 April, the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, thousands of Armenians gather at the memorial to commemorate the victims of the genocide. The people who gather in Tsiternakaberd lay fresh flowers out of respect for all the people who died in the Armenian genocide. Over the years, from around the world, a wide range of politicians, artists, musicians, athletes, and religious figures have List of visitors to Tsitsernakaberd, visited the memorial. The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (Հայոց ցեղասպանության թանգարան-ինստիտուտ ''Hayots tseghaspanut'yan tangaran-institut'') was opened in 1995. History The memorial is set on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenian Secret Army For The Liberation Of Armenia
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) was a militant organization active between 1975 and the 1990s whose stated goal was "to compel the Government of Turkey, Turkish Government to acknowledge publicly its responsibility for the Armenian genocide in 1915, Armenian genocide reparations, pay reparations, and Western Armenia, cede territory for an Armenian homeland." ASALA itself and other sources described it as a guerilla and armed organization. Some sources, including the United States Department of State,United States Department of StatePatterns of Global Terrorism Report: 1989, p 57 as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Azerbaijan), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan listed it as a terrorist organization. The principal goal of ASALA was to establish a United Armenia that would include the formerly Armenians, Armenian-inhabited six vilayets of the Ottoman Empire (Western Armenia) and Soviet Armenia.Terrorist Group Profiles. DIANE Publishing, 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenian Genocide Denial
Denial of the Armenian genocide is the negationist claim that the Ottoman Empire and its ruling party, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), did not commit genocide against its Armenian citizens during World War I—a crime documented in a large body of evidence and affirmed by the vast majority of scholars. The perpetrators denied the genocide as they carried it out, claiming that Armenians in the Ottoman Empire were resettled for military reasons, not exterminated. In its aftermath, incriminating documents were systematically destroyed. Denial has been the policy of every government of the Ottoman Empire's successor state, the Republic of Turkey, . Borrowing arguments used by the CUP to justify its actions, Armenian genocide denial rests on the assumption that the deportation of Armenians was a legitimate state action in response to a real or perceived Armenian uprising that threatened the empire's existence during wartime. Deniers assert that the CUP intende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenian Research Center
The Center for Armenian Research and Publication (Armenian Research Center) was established by Dr. Dennis R. Papazian in 1985 for the documentation/publication in the field of Armenian studies. The Armenian Research Center is the only such research institute devoted to the study of the Armenians at any U.S. university. The University of Michigan–Dearborn, Special Collections of the John Vigen Der Manuelian Research Library In partial fulfillment of its stated goal above, the Armenian Research Center controls a library, which was named the John Vigen Der Manuelian Research Library because the core of the collection comes from the Boston-area educator and community activist. Though the Archives, as yet are unnamed. See also *University of Michigan–Dearborn * Denial of the Armenian genocide *Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nieman Foundation For Journalism
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism is the primary journalism institution at Harvard University. History It was founded in February 1938 as the result of a $1.4 million bequest by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow of Lucius W. Nieman, founder of '' The Milwaukee Journal''. Scholarships were established for journalists with at least three years' experience to go back to college to advance their work. She stated the goal was "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States and educate persons deemed specially qualified for journalism." Programs Nieman Fellows The Nieman Foundation is best known as home to the Nieman Fellows, a group of journalists from around the world who come to Harvard for a year of study. Many noted journalists, and from 1959, also photojournalists, have been Nieman Fellows, including John Carroll, Dexter Filkins, Susan Orlean, Robert Caro, Hodding Carter, Michael Kirk, Alex Jones, Anthony Lewis, Robert Maynard, Allister Spark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T24 (newspaper)
T24 is a Turkish online newspaper. History T24 was launched on 1 September 2009. Initial staff of T24 were consisting of former ''Tempo24'' employees. On 29 December 2012, T24 started their YouTube channel and uploaded their first video on 12 April 2013. In 2013, author and columnist Hasan Cemal joined T24. In September 2013, T24 announced "T24 Okur Fonu" their crowdfunding venture that planned to collect funds from its readers. In September 2013, led by Hasan Cemal, Doğan Akın, Yavuz Baydar, Yasemin Çongar, Andrew Finkel, Hazal Özvarış and Murat Sabuncu, T24 staff established Punto24, a self-proclaimed "independent press platform". On 14 January 2015, T24 published an entire instalment of Charlie Hebdo, which included cartoons depicting Muhammad the Prophet, following 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting. In February 2015, T24 started their online literary criticism initiative Kitap Kültür Kritik 24 (K24). Between 30 October and 13 November 2015, Nazlı Ilıcak published h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murat Karayilan
Murat may refer to: Places Australia * Murat Bay, a bay in South Australia * Murat Marine Park, a marine protected area France * Murat, Allier, a commune in the department of Allier * Murat, Cantal, a commune in the department of Cantal Elsewhere *, a once independent village, now a historic neighbourhood in Bari, Apulia. * Murat, Iran, a village in Lorestan Province * Murat Rural LLG, a local government area in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea * Murat River, Turkey * Murat, Wisconsin, United States, an unincorporated community Other uses * Murat (name), people with the given name or surname * Murat Centre, an entertainment venue in Indianapolis, Indiana currently known as the Old National Centre * Murat Shrine, a masonic building in Indianapolis, Indiana See also * Murat-le-Quaire, a commune in the department of Puy-de-Dôme, France * Murat-sur-Vèbre, a commune in the department of Tarn, France * Gourdon-Murat Gourdon-Murat (; ) is a commune in the Corrèze depa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
