Author: Admin AmtrBeyondBorders

Nazik Armenakyan from Yerevan, member of 4Plus Documentary Photography Center, was supported with the travel grant to visit Diyarbakır, for taking part in the Diyarbakır International Photography Days. “Like in every photography event, this time as well I met so many photographers, mostly Turkish and Kurdish photographers. It was very important for me to get […]

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Back in 2014, Beyond Borders started this website, armtr-beyondborders.org, to publicize the availability of grants, and particularly travel grants to support the commerce between Turkey and Armenia.  The EU supported this initiative as part of its move to abolish borders, get beyond them in its terminology. While the EU supported this effort, it was primarily […]

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Arthur Sukiasyan; Artur Sukiasyan from Yerevan was supported by the Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant and visited İstanbul for his documentary film about the story of the seized Camp Armen (Tuzla Armenian Children’s Camp) and the children who grew up there. “My reflections and envisioning in the course of filming, helped me to experience a unique journey […]

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Devrim Akkaya from İstanbul was supported by the Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant and visited Yerevan to attend the screening her documentary film Diyar at the Golden Apricot – Yerevan International Film Festival and to meet film directors and producers in Armenia. “Borders might be strong enough to keep people apart, but they are not strong enough to keep apart our […]

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Emine Yıldırım from İstanbul was supported by the Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant and visited Yerevan for the screening of her film The Impeccables at the Regional Feature Film Competition of the Golden Apricot – Yerevan International Film Festival and for networking with filmmakers and cultural actors in Armenia. “My visit helped me build professional relationships with Armenian filmmakers and paved […]

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Adrineh Gregorian from Yerevan, was supported with the Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant to visit Istanbul, for meeting with organisations and artists to develop projects, deliver workshops and expand her network in the field of cinematography. “My plan was to meet organizations and artists to develop some of my projects and expand my network in Istanbul. In […]

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Ferzan Özyaşar from Hatay (Antakya), Çağdaş Yazıcı and Eylem Şen from Izmir, were supported with Armenia-Turkey travel grant for her visit to Yerevan for making a film about Armenians of the Musadağ. Ferzan Ozyasar “Due to the subject of our project, we had the chance to be with families who are from Musadağ and to […]

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Karine Mkrtchyan from Gyumri, was supported with the Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant to visit Istanbul, to build partnership and links with organisations that work for women and learn about the support provided to the irregular migrant Armenian women in Turkey. “During my meetings with Armenian migrant women and organisations I discovered that the issue of Armenian […]

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Belgin Cengiz from Istanbul, was supported with the Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant to visit Yerevan, to work on her documentary film about the Orphans and Orphanages of 1915. “The weak relations between Armenia and Turkey are a huge loss for both countries. Because being from Armenia means, being from Van, Diyarbakır, Dersim, Istanbul, Yozgat, Tokat… The border between […]

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