Armenians in Istanbul
Armenians in Istanbul ( Armenian Պոլսահայեր Bolsahayer , also Polsahayer ; Turkish İstanbul Ermenileri ) are historically one of the largest ethnic minorities in Istanbul in today's Turkey . The city is often called Bolis (Պոլիս) by Armenians .
Today most estimates put the number of Armenians in Istanbul at 50,000, 60,000 or 70,000. They now make up 75% of the entire Armenian population in Turkey, which fell from 1.5 million members to almost 70,000 people as a result of the massacres in the years 1894 to 1896 , the Adana massacre in 1908 and the subsequent genocide of the Armenians .
history
Today the Armenian community in Istanbul has 17 schools (including Pangaltı High School , Getronagan High School , Surp Haç High School ), 17 cultural and social organizations, three newspapers - called Agos , Jamanak and Marmara -, two sports clubs ( Şişlispor and Taksimspor ) and two health institutions ( Saint Savior Hospital , Surp Agop Hospital ) and several religious foundations ( Pangaltı Cemetery ) that were established to support all of those activities.
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| year | TOTAL | Armenians | proportion of | ||||||||||||||
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| 1478 | 100,000-120,000 | 5,000-6,000 | 5% | ||||||||||||||
| 1844 | 891,000 | 222,000 | 24.9% | ||||||||||||||
| 1880s | 870,000 | 250,000 | |||||||||||||||
| 1885 | 873,565 | 156,861 | 17.9% | ||||||||||||||
| 1913 | 1,125,000 | 163,670 | 14.5% | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | 13,483,052 | 50,000-70,000 | 0.3-0.5% | ||||||||||||||
Well-known Armenians from Istanbul
The following is a list of famous Armenians who were born or worked in Istanbul (Constantinople).
- Aram Andonian , journalist
- Arpiar Arpiarian , writer
- Hagop Baronian , writer and satirist
- Nazareth Daghavarian , doctor
- Hrant Dink , journalist and editor
- Erukhan , writer
- Gabriel Guévrékian , architect
- Hagop Kazazian Pasha , Minister of Finance
- Komitas Vardapet , musician
- Mkrtitsch Chrimjan , religious leader and writer
- Yervant Odian , writer and satirist
- Rupen Sevag , writer
- Levon Schant , writer
- Siamanto , writer
- Papken Siuni , political activist
- Bedros Tourian , poet
- Taniel Varuschan , poet
- Rupen Zartarian , writer
- Krikor Zohrab , statesman and author
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ There are 60,000 to 70,000 Armenians in Istanbul ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Foreign Ministry: 89,000 minorities live in Turkey Today’s Zaman
- ^ Armenian in Istanbul: Diaspora in Turkey welcomes the setting of relations and waits more steps from both countries
- ^ The Armenian Church ( Memento from June 14, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Edmund Herzig, Marina Kurkchiyan, The Armenians: past and present in the making of national identity , 2005, p. 133
- ↑ REPUBLIC OF TURKEY MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND TOURISM - Armenian Claims and Historical Facts
- ^ Finkel, Caroline, Osman's Dream , (Basic Books, 2004), 57; " Istanbul was only adopted as the city's official name in 1930 .. ".
- ↑ The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times: Foreign dominion to statehood: the fifteenth century to the twentieth century ; Volume 2 of The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Richard G. Hovannisian, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN 978-1-4039-6636-0
- ↑ a b Armenian Nicholas Adontz , "Հայկական հարցի լուծման շուրջ" [Around solution of the Armenian question] , "publishing house of Yerevan State University", Yerevan, 1989, pages 87-88
- ↑ a b Armenian ՍՏԱՄԲՈՒԼԱՀԱՅ ՀԱՄԱՅՆՔ. ԱՆՑՅԱԼԸ, ՆԵՐԿԱՆ, ԽՆԴԻՐՆԵՐԸ (պատմական ակնարկ)
- ↑ Justin McCarthy, THE POPULATION OF THE OTTOMAN ARMENIANS (PDF; 120 kB)
- ^ Turkish Statistical Institute: Population of Town Centers and Provinces in Turkey ( Memento of July 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
