Hayko Bagdat

Hayko Bağdat (* 1976 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish-Armenian television and print journalist, author, speaker and cabaret artist.

Life

Turkey

Bağdat studied literature and history. From 2012 he worked with Roni Margulies at İMC TV . He wrote u. a. Columns for the now banned Turkish investigative daily Taraf , the Armenian weekly Marmara and the web news portal Diken .

He converted his first volume of short stories, Salyangoz, about the life of an artist in today's Islamic society, into a satirical stage program with which he has already performed throughout Europe.

Bağdat is married and has two children.

exile

After the attempted coup in Turkey in 2016 , numerous critical media outlets for which Bağdat had worked were banned or closed. His book publisher İnkılap Yayınevi can no longer publish books by him. He was thus deprived of the basis of work in his home country and he moved to Berlin .

Together with Can Dündar , he founded the bilingual journalistic platform Özgürüz in Germany , which has been online since January 24, 2017. After surviving an Islamist assassination attempt five years ago, he received death threats again in Berlin and is under police protection.

Fonts

• Haykoloji ("Haykology") - İnkılap Yayınevi 2016
• Kurtulus CokBozuldu ("The residential area of ​​Kurtulus is too spoiled") - İnkılap Yayınevi 2016
• Gollik - İnkılap Yayınevi 2015
• Salyangoz ("The Snail") - İnkılap Yayınevi 2014

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Salyangoz - "Somethin 'with one man". Retrieved March 13, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Hayko Bağdat: Kimdir ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2017 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. 
3. ↑ Karen Krüger: “Freedom Fighters. Can Dündar founds the online magazine 'Özgürüz' ”. In: FAZ , January 25, 2017.
4. ↑ Online medium in German and Turkish: Money could become a problem . In: The daily newspaper: taz . January 24, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed March 13, 2018]).