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Armenian Culture and Solidarity Association (Ermeni Kültürü
ve Dayanışma Derneği) is based in İstanbul. It aims to protect and
flourishes the cultural, historical and lingual values of the Armenians
and struggle against the loss of this heritage. The association plans
and carries out social, cultural and economic projects to build the
solidarity among Armenians and raises awareness on being an
Armenian. Through its social media accounts such as Facebook
and Instagram, every day it shares a Western Armenian word in
accordance with a concept. It has also created video contents about
Armenian heritage, lives and culture with Beraberce Association on
Youtube.
Aylin Vartanyan: She is an academian and working for Bogazici
University. She has been studying her postgraduate on Armenian
women living in İstanbul. Utilizing from expressive art, she walks in
some provinces with Armenian women that she has selected from 3
diverse age groups. In accordance with the questions that she asks
about how to live in a country that denies the genocide, they walk
and take photos in the provinces that they have decided. From these
photographs, they create and narrate narratives of different genres
which are then converted into the digital stories combined with the
photographs. This work makes them consider and creates a dialogue
about being an Armenian woman in Turkey.