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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Armenian Genocide Commemorated in Turkey

ISTANBUL, Turkey (A.W.)—On April 24, the Istanbul branch of the Human Rights Organization of Turkey organized an event commemorating the…

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Learnings from the Sari Gelin Case

It was March 8, 2005 when BBC News reported how Turkey renamed “divisive” animal names on the ground that they…

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Trained to Be Less Demanding and More Thankful

An environment dominated by less democracy and more authoritarianism generation after generation, and a constant deprivation of some of the…

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About the Apology Campaign

The old Turkish movies had a common pattern: There were the good ones and the evil ones. Life was much…

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