Anush Khachatryan from Ashtarak was supported by the Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant and visited İstanbul to organise the exhibition entitled ‘Women for Conflict Reconciliation and Peace’. ‘Women for Conflict Reconciliation and Peace’ exhibition is an end product of photo and painting contest organised by the Society Without Violence NGO. The contest aims at raising the voice of […]
Monika Manişak from İzmir was supported by the Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant and visited Yerevan to study history, literature and cultural studies at the Armenian Studies Summer School organised by the Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support (ARMACAD). “I should offer my thanks to ARMACAD and Hrant Dink Foundation, who enabled me to explore the wealth […]
Cansu Atılgan “Our expectations about our visit before the travel were very mixed. Because this was our very first travel to Armenia, to Caucasus. In fact, some of us were on an airplane for the first time. It means, we had different emotions. Besides we were very excited when we took off to Yerevan. We […]
Hüseyin Uysal from Gaziantep was supported by the Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant and visited Yerevan to take part in the Annual Student Research Conference organised by the American University of Armenia. “If you have plans to visit Armenia/Turkey for a specific event such as a conference, a cultural event, an art exhibition, then the Travel Grant is […]
Ayşegül Özadak and Tuğçe Özdemir from Istanbul, storytellers at Curious Steps: Gender and Memory Tours organised by Sabanci University Gender Forum, were supported with the travel grant to visit Yerevan, for researching on common songs of both societies and conducting interviews with some volunteers from local CSOs to reveal the meaning of these songs. Aysegul […]
Islamized Armenians; Nurcan Türkay, Semiha Demir, Nimetullah Yürek, Seda Seve and Zelal Erdemci from Diyarbakır, graduates of the Armenian language course offered by Diyarbakır Sur District Municipality and the Surp Giragos Armenian Church in Diyarbakır, were supported with the Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant to visit Yerevan for meeting various historic and cultural organisations and practice their Armenian language […]
Ruşen Arslan, Kadir Süleyman Kaçan, İsmail Beşikçi and Hrant Kasparyan, who are members of İsmail Beşikçi Foundation,were supported with the Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant to visit Yerevan for sharing their experience in oral history projects with different organizations, as well as for organizing panel discussions. Ismail Besikci “It is important to understand Armenia and Armenians, therefore travel […]
Birsen Atakan from Istanbul, vice president of Non-violent Education and Research Association, Aslı Polatdemir from Denizli and Eleni Diker from Istanbul, co-founders of BoMoVu (Network of Sport and Body Movement for Vulnerable Groups), were supported with Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant to visit Yerevan, for visiting Women’s Resource Center of Armenia to discuss their joint conference planned […]
Hayk Hakobyan and Mayranush Davtyan human rights activists from Yerevan, were supported with Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant to visit Istanbul for attending educational workshops and trainings organised by SPoD NGO and share experiences of working for the well-being of the LGBTQI + community.
Azmi Recep Özdaş from Eskişehir, a sociology PhD student, visited Yerevan with Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant for conducting a comparative research about queer identity and construction of memory in post-Soviet Armenia and Turkey. “I felt close to all aspects, including food, culture, daily life and even the routine of the language.” “We just focus on our differences.” […]