HrantDink Foundation

You're invited | Women of Rebetiko: A Journey in the Footsteps of Music and Memory 📅 March 10, 2026, Tuesday 🕕 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM 📍 Hrant Dink Foundation Anarad Hığutyun Building 🔗 To register: bit.ly/4l5mi1i *The event will be in Turkish with no simultaneous interpretation. Women of Rebetiko, brought to life by Lidya Durmazgüler, is an interdisciplinary memory and music project that creates space for the marginalized and overlooked voices of women in rebetiko music. 🎵 At this event, we will hear Lidya Durmazgüler's presentation on the historical and cultural background of rebetiko music in the context of the population exchange, followed by a performance focusing on the lives of women rebetiko artists.

The poet Zahrad often used cats in his poetry. In one of his poems, he included his cat Jondor among the family members who came to see him off. The story of Zahrad, who had a special bond with the cats of Kınalıada, is on the #KarDes Kınalıada tour.#CatDay To download the KarDes mobile application for free: onelink.to/KarDes

📅 February 25, 2026, Wednesday 🕒 4:00-6:00 PM 📍 Venue: Hrant Dink Foundation Anarad Hığutyun Building 🔗 For more information and to register: bit.ly/3MxDwI1 * The talk will be in English, simultaneous translation will not be provided. You are invited to Mneesha Gellman's talk examining how Indigenous high school students resist assimilation and assert their identities through access to Indigenous language classes in public schools.

On Monday, 19 January at 14:30 (GMT+3), Hrant Dink will be commemorated in front of the Sebat Building which used to house the Agos newspaper, where he was assassinated 19 years ago. 🕊️

In the film 'Memory Too Low For Words' by Ümit Kıvanç (@umit_k), you can witness Hrant Dink’s passion which made him a target, and hear from his own voice his dreams for Turkey and the world in these tumultuous days. To watch the film: bit.ly/49CciYk

In the film 'Memory Too Low For Words' by Ümit Kıvanç (@umit_k), you can witness Hrant Dink’s passion which made him a target, and hear from his own voice his dreams for Turkey and the world in these tumultuous days. To watch the film: bit.ly/49CciYk

In the film 'Memory Too Low For Words' by Ümit Kıvanç (@umit_k), you can witness Hrant Dink’s passion which made him a target, and hear from his own voice his dreams for Turkey and the world in these tumultuous days. To watch the film: bit.ly/49CciYk

In this talk, Marianna Hovhannisyan situates the concept of "archive" as a theoretical inquiry and a site of contested knowledge, examining how Armenian cultural production is defined by fragmentations and archival absences. 📅 January 8, Thursday 🕒 4:00-6:00 PM 📍 Venue: Hrant Dink Foundation Anarad Hığutyun Building 🔗 To register: bit.ly/45wZLE4 *The talk will be in English, simultaneous translation will not be provided.

We hope that 2026 will be a year in which co-existence is strengthened, and dialogue and peace prevail. This year, we will continue our work to keep cultural heritage alive, to advocate for human rights and minority rights, to strengthen dialogue and democracy, to support civil society, and to contribute to the normalization of Turkey-Armenia relations. Happy New Year! 📌 We are sharing the cover image that Kulis Magazine prepared as it entered 1986, featuring the note "Happy New Year and Christmas" in Armenian. With this post, where we animated Berç Toroser's illustration using artificial intelligence, we wish you a happy new year. ✨🎄

“Whatever I’ve created, I’ve created with joy and love.” Aliye Berger, one of Turkey’s first engraving artists, was born on 24 December 1903 in Büyükada. Berger became known in the art world with her famous painting “Sun Rising”. You can explore Aliye Berger’s story at #KarDes. Download KarDes mobile app for free: onelink.to/KarDes

With the warm smile of “Hafize Ana” and the affectionate voice of the “Storyteller Auntie,” Adile Naşit, who holds a place in the hearts of generations is Adela, the granddaughter of Beyoğlu’s famous Kanto singer Küçük Virjin and the fiddler Yorgo Efendi. Discover her life story, with roots extending to the Kanto stages and a rise reaching Şehzadebaşı’s Millet Theatre, on the “Stories of Istanbul’s Multicultural Women” tour in the #KarDes app. Download the #KarDes mobile app for free: onelink.to/KarDes

Following our talks with Anahid Nazarian and Carolyn Rapkievian in June, and Deborah Valoma in November, our "Ancestral Journeys: Reflections on Land and Belonging" series continues on November 27 with Paul Vartan Sookiasian. My Return to Arapgir and the Lives That Led Me There November 27, 2025, Thursday, 16:00–18:00 Moderator: Aylin Vartanyan Paul Vartan Sookiasian, a writer working at CivilNet in Yerevan, will share his years of family history research and his journey to Arapgir—a century after his family left. 📍 Venue: Anarad Hığutyun Building 🗣️ Language: English 🔗 To register: bit.ly/44lhT3a

“There is nothing left, they took whatever we had... we had to sleep on the floor.” Based on his own life, author Zaven Biberyan describes the trauma and change of a family that lost all they had with the Capital Tax Law. You can hear his story on the #KarDes, Moda Tour. On November 11, 1942, the Capital Tax Law was enacted, imposing a heavy tax burden on minorities, forcing them to sell everything they owned. Those who couldn't pay their debts were either forced to work or sent into exile. Biberyan's story is featured in the Moda Memory Tour on #KarDes. You can download the KarDes mobile app for free and discover the multicultural stories of Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, and Diyarbakır: onelink.to/KarDes

David Kazanjian will discuss how we can rethink the concept of reparation through Sarkis's exhibitions Respiro (Venice Biennale 2015) and 7 Tage, 7 Nächte (Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden 2024). 🔗 To register: bit.ly/4hNEQSk 🗓️ November 17, Monday, 16.00 📍 Hrant Dink Foundation - Anarad Hığutyun Building 🗣️ *The talk will be in English.

In the third installment of the "Ancestral Journeys: Reflections on Land and Belonging" talk series, we meet with Deborah Valoma, who investigates textiles as signifiers of identity and agents of cultural continuity. In this talk moderated by Aylin Vartanyan (@atemwendeAylin), she discusses a multi-year interdisciplinary project that led her to her ancestral villages in the Kharpert area—the first of her family to set foot on the land in more than one-hundred years.  🔗 To register: bit.ly/3WIqMjg 📅 November 13, Thursday, 4:00 PM 📍 Hrant Dink Foundation - Anarad Hığutyun Building 🗣️ *The talk will be in English.

In the third installment of the "Ancestral Journeys: Reflections on Land and Belonging" talk series, we meet with Deborah Valoma, who investigates textiles as signifiers of identity and agents of cultural continuity. In this talk she discusses a multi-year interdisciplinary project that led her to her ancestral villages in the Kharpert area—the first of her family to set foot on the land in more than one-hundred years. 🔗 To register: bit.ly/3WIqMjg 📅 November 13, Thursday, 4:00 PM 📍 Hrant Dink Foundation - Anarad Hığutyun Building 🗣️ *The talk will be in English.

📢 Join us for a talk with Avery F. Gordon 📖 The evidence of things unseen: Hauntings in and along the utopian margins In this talk, Gordon will discuss the main concerns and problematics in her books Ghostly Matters and The Hawthorn Archive, and introduce her current work on 1948 soldier rebellion and people’s uprising in Korea. 🗓️ October 5, 2025, Sunday 🕒 15:00 – 17:00 📍 Hrant Dink Foundation Anarad Hığutyun Building, Istanbul 🔹 The talk will be in English, with no simultaneous translation. 🔹 Moderator: Ayfer Bartu Candan 🔹 This talk is organized by the cooperation of Hrant Dink Foundation and Beyondrest x Waves. 👉 To register: shorturl.at/YxBZn

The 2025 International #HrantDinkAward found its laureates. The laureates of the 17th International #HrantDinkAward are Bülent Şık (@bulentilgaz) from Turkey and Helena Maleno Garzón (@HelenaMaleno) from Spain. Thanks to Hazal Türesan who added her voice to ours with her presentation at the #HrantDinkAward ceremony; to Sibil (@sibilmusic), Zelişah (@zelisah_k), Ari Hergel, Sevan İnyapan and Sevan Karabetoğlu (@sevan_k) who participated with Sayat Nova's song 'Nazani'; to Zhanna Davtyan (@ZhannaDavtyan), Arman Peshtmaljyan and Stepan Ter-Ghevondyan from #NearNeighborArmenia; to Selin Sümbültepe (@selinsumbultepe) and Erkan Zeki Ar (@erkanzekiar) who joined us with their special performances recorded at 23.5 Hrant Dink Site of Memory (@yirmiucbucuk); to Gevende @Gevende who participated in the evening with their original compositions and beloved songs that everyone can hear in their own language; to Ceylan Ertem (@ceylan_peace) who accompanied Hüsnü Arkan's (@husnuarkan) song "Ahparig" written for Hrant Dink with her unique interpretation... To dear Ümit Kıvanç for the concept of videos prepared since 2009; to Mahir Günşiray (@mahirgunsiray) and Eric Nazarian for the voiceovers that brought life to the spirit of the videos... We sincerely thank our 2024-2025 jury members for their valuable evaluations. If you want to get to know the award recipients closely and listen to their speeches, to closely know the 'Inspirations' that illuminate humanity, and to listen to special musical performances for the ceremony, the complete award ceremony is: bit.ly/4glZWX1 #BuildHope #StrongerTogether Photos 1 & 2: Metin Mercan Photos 3 & 4: Minas Koyuncu