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.” […]
Hasan Yalçın from Diyarbakır, member of the Human Rights Association-Diyarbakir Branch, will be supported with the travel grant to visit Yerevan, for meeting civil society organisations working in the field of human rights including the Kurdish civic initiatives in Armenia. “I say if we want to know and understand each other correctly, we need to […]
‘I believe in being together personally’ Rabia Aslı Koruyucu from Istanbul, was supported with Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant to visit Yerevan for sharing her academic research on gender issues at a round-table discussion and talk series organised by “Helsinki Citizens” Assembly Vanadzor. “I didn’t know anything about the cultural aspects.” “Personal or independent activism and encounters can […]
Original Coating; Özgün Kaplama from Istanbul, a youth worker and a member of European Students Forum (AEGEE) Istanbul, was supported with Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant to visit Yerevan for attending the European Planning Meeting (EPM), held in Yerevan “We have some common vision, common background.” “This project is really a good tool to break prejudices, break these mindsets.”
Burak Köşker from İstanbul was supported by the Turkey-Armenia Travel Grant and visited Yerevan and Gyumri to contact civil society organisations and to develop training and exchange programmes. “When I first told to the people I met on the streets of Armenia that I was a Turk, the first reaction was surprise. Nobody would expect […]