Ayse Gunaysu

Ayse Gunaysu is a professional translator, human rights advocate, and feminist. She has been a member of the Committee Against Racism and Discrimination of the Human Rights Association of Turkey (Istanbul branch) since 1995, and is a columnist for Ozgur Gundem. Since 2008, she writes a column titled "Letters from Istanbul," for the Armenian Weekly.
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Fatih Altayli: Male Chauvinist, Owner of Usurped Armenian Property

By Ayse Gunaysu and Nadya Uygun Special for the Armenian Weekly On Oct. 2, 2012, members of the Revolutionary Socialist…

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Gunaysu: Exhibition of Bitlis Armenians Held in Tatvan

Special for the Armenian Weekly March 1, 2014. We are at the municipality’s Cultural Center of Tatvan, a district of…

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Turkey: An Action Movie without a ‘Good Guy’

Special for the Armenian Weekly In Turkey today, a very high-tempo, high-tension action scene is unfolding, with a life-or-death fight…

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Gunaysu: Commemorating Genocide in a Post-Genocide Denialist Habitus

Dilara Balcı, in her book that gives a detailed account of how non-Muslims were represented in the Turkish film industry…

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Gunaysu: Yes, Peace, but Between Whom, for What, and in What Context?

The Armenian Weekly April 2013 Magazine Is it true? Are things really changing in Turkey, the land of genocides, pogroms,…

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Names of Lost Armenian Villages Read in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet Square

It’s April 24, 2013. In Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul. People have gathered in front of the Turkish-Islamic Arts Museum which,…

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Gunaysu: My Views on Post-Genocidal Turkey

Below is the full text of a speech delivered by Armenian Weekly columnist Ayse Gunaysu during a panel discussion at…

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Gunaysu: My Silent Sister

The setting is a small, beautiful, historical city in the south of Poland, Wroclaw. It’s night-time on the 11th of…

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The Hunger Strikes in Turkey: Using One’s Body as a Means of Communication

Life came to a standstill in the Kurdish provinces of Turkey on Oct. 30. Shops and businesses were closed, except…

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Gunaysu: The Reign of Lies in Turkey

Organized denial means the reign of lies. The denialist, in order to sustain denial, has to resolutely and incessantly lie.…

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