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ARARAT-ESKIJIAN MUSEUM
T HE ORGANIZATION OF ISTANBUL ARMENIANS (OIA)
N ATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH (NAASR)
P RESENT AN ILLUSTRATED TALK
I MAGES OF ARMENIANS IN TURKEY 100 YEARS AGO
Sponsored by the Glendale Public Library
by
Osman Köker
Editor, Armenians in Turkey 100 Years Ago
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 7:00 p.m.
Glendale Central Library Auditorium
222 E. Harvard Street (2nd floor)
Glendale, CA 91205
A reception will follow the program.
For more information contact NAASR at 617-489-1610 or hq@naasr.org; Ararat-Eskijian Museum at 818-838-4862 or ararat-eskijian-museum@netzero.net; Ohannes Kulak Avedikian of OIA at 818-800-1976 www.oia.net
In 2005, Osman Köker first came to international attention when he organized the unprecedented exhibition "Sireli Yeghpayrs (My Dear Brother)" in Istanbul. Eventually seen by thousands of people, it presented photographs of Armenian life in pre-genocide Ottoman Turkey, drawn from a large collection of postcards owned by the collector Orlando Calumeno. In the five years since then, the exhibition has also been mounted in Paris, Munich, Koln, Frankfurt, and last year in Yerevan.
Köker originally intended to write a book about Armenian life in the Ottoman Empire, but with the discovery of the postcard collection the scope of the project changed. Following the exhibition he published the massive and beautifully-produced volume 100 Yıl Önce Türkiye’de Ermeniler, subsequently published in English as Armenians in Turkey 100 Years Ago, featuring hundreds of images showing where and how Armenians in the Ottoman Empire lived.
Osman Köker was also involved in the creation in 1996 of the Istanbul Turkish-Armenian daily Agos and Aras Publishing House, the only publishing house which publishes books in Armenian and books translated into Turkish from the Armenian. This will be his first public presentation in the United States. | 
