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Seeing through Ara Güler’s lens
Come along with me and let us walk into the Ara Güler Museum in Istanbul. Immediately, you will feel a pull that goes beyond art — like returning to a space that holds both memory and identity. Ara Güler, the man known as “The Eye of Istanbul,” was not just a genius with the camera; he was an Armenian whose lens captured truths that words often failed to hold or even understand. Moving past the displayed black and white photographs, we not only see Istanbul’s streets, fishermen and nei
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Talented though he was, the late Ara Guler was an unashamed Erdogan sycophant and supporter. So no, an unabashed Erdogan supporter, who lashed out and insulted those who criticised him for his fawning and defense of Erdogan, who is a rabid Armenophobe and has insulted Armenians and threatened Armenia multiple times, deserves no respect.
And the other Istanbul Armenian, Daron Acemoglu, who won the Nobel Economic Prize in 2024, is an unashamed Kemalist, the Turkish nationalist ideology of the founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first president, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who was also one of the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide, and who dealt the death blow and the final destruction of the Armenian population and Western Armenia by 1921.
Istanbul Armenians, who are Erdogan supporters or Kemalists, absolutely deserve no respect, let alone praise.
Not sure what to think about this review, and yes Steve M. has made some very important points. Take a look at this review of Art Guler’s exhibit in Amsterdam from a year or so ago, a critical and necessary take in how it was curated, confronting that which is silenced; the range of silences that surround his life, his work, his legacy, our histories. https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/setting-tone-lieu-exhibition-review