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Photo Story: Armenia remembers the Genocide victims (ZDHDDHD001)

Photo Story by: Ruben Mangasaryan, Anahit Hayrapetyan, Nelli Shishmanyan
Date: 23 Apr, 2007

On April 24, the day of memory of 1.5 million Armenians violently killed by Turks in 1915, government officials, Armenian clergy and thousands of people visited the Genocide Memorial in Yerevan to lay flowers to it. The procession began in the evening of April 23. The Armenian youth marched through the center of the city to the Memorial in the torchlight procession, chanting “recognition”, carrying the 30 meters long national flag and the word “strive” made up by torches. The torch procession was organized by the Armenian Youth Federation and the Nikol Aghbalian Student Union, an affiliation of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.

©2007 Patker

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MerhaBarev

By PatkerPhoto:Ruben Mangasaryan, German Avagyan, Anahit Hayrapetyan, Karen Mirzoyan, Nelli Shishmanyan. NarPhotos: Ozcan Yurdalan,Mehmet Kacmaz,Serra Akcan,Tolga Sezgin, Kerem Uzel.

MerhaBarev is a unique photo-bridge between Armenia and Turkey, two neighboring countries with no diplomatic relations and a border remained closed for more than 80 years. This project was created in 2006, when five Armenian photojournalists from Patker photo agency shot Istanbul during a week, and the same did five Turkish photojournalists from Nar photo agency in Yerevan. MerhaBarev is a combined greeting in two languages:Turkish - "merhaba" and Armenian - "barev". MerhaBarev is indeed the first visual greeting between the two countries, which are separated not only by the sharp wire on the border, built during the Soviet Union period, but by the political and historical problems. Using the black and white language of the photography, photojournalists narrated about Istanbul and Yerevan, their cultures, traditions, every-day life and people. The project was presented as a number of exhibitions in Armenia (Yerevan, Gumri) and Turkey (Istanbul, Ankara, Kars, Diarbekir). MerhaBarev is also a book in four languages (Armenian,Turkish, English and German), calendars and posters.


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