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Gunaysu: A ‘Bolsetsi’ in Los Angeles
I was in Los Angeles from Nov. 23-27, a place I never imagined I would go! Long journeys to unknown lands have always frightened me. But this time I was invited by the ANC-Western Region […]
Articles by Ayse Gunaysu
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Gunaysu: Denial Is a Hate Crime and Denialist Discourse Is Hate Speech
“It is as if a general orphan-like spirit floats over the [Muslim] quarter. Laziness, an apathetic attitude toward life is the character that appears among the Muslims. In contrast, if you enter the quarter of […]
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Gunaysu: Snapshots from the Fragmented Landscape of Turkey
This time my column will have no structural integrity. It will be fragmented just like life itself and just like my thoughts wandering around, coming and going at unexpected times, intertwined to form strange, disconnected […]
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Gunaysu: Kurds Challenge Turkish Nation-State
On Dec. 20, 2010, Turkish members of parliament, including the ultra-nationalist MHP, Islamist AKP, nationalist CHP, and others, were listening to the tall woman addressing the session during the budgetary discussions for the Ministry of […]
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Gunaysu: Armenian, Turkish Publishers Launch Book on Akhtamar in Van
Sarafian (L) and Koker during the book event. (Photo by Ayse Gunaysu) It’s Sept. 17, two days before church services will be held at the Holy Cross (Sourp Khatch) Church on Akhtamar Island. A multi-storey […]
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Gunaysu: Akhtamar: A Lost Paradise
My Akhtamar visit was a huge pile of mixed thoughts and feelings, mainly that of despair and indignation from being in physical contact with evidence of the painful truth. Images are engraved in my mind… […]
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Gunaysu: A Turkey Classic: Grotesque Co-Existence of Make-Believe Liberalism and Fascism
The Turkish state recently made a simultaneously liberal and fascistic move on the same subject: the “Armenian issue.” The result was a perfect example of what makes Turkey the setting of the grotesque co-existence of […]
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Gunaysu: Silenced but Resilient: A Groundbreaking Panel Discussion in Istanbul
It was an unusually hot and very exciting day. It would be the first time that critics of Turkish intellectuals’ discourse about the “Armenian issue” would voice their arguments at a public meeting in Turkey, […]
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Gunaysu: Turkish State Wages War Against Kurdish Civilian Political Movement
North Kurdistan People’s Initiative calls for “total revolt” (Special report from Istanbul by Armenian Weekly columnist Ayse Gunaysu) ISTANBUL, Turkey (A.W.)–The Turkish state started a new war against the civilian Kurdish political movement in 11 […]
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Gunaysu: Dreams of Peace May Come True After 25 Years of War
Thirty-four PKK (Kurdish Workers’ Party) members were released after their surrender to Turkish security forces in support of the peace process to resolve the Kurdish issue. Thousands of Kurds in Istanbul, Diyarbakir, on the Habur […]