On February 3rd, 2003 Takuhi Zaman, an employee of Aras, the only
Armenian Publishing house in Istanbul, was attacked for the second
time in two years in the street while going to work in what seems to
be a robbery attempt in the Harbiye district of Istanbul. The robber
ran into a passer-by coming from the opposite direction and did not
succeed to keep Ms. Zaman’s hand bag, therefore she did not lodge a
police complaint. The first attack, which took place on Kurtulush
avenue, near the Armenian populated quarter of Feriköy on December
24th, 2000, was reported to the nearest police station, as the
attackers had succeeded in getting away with Ms. Zaman’s handbag.
However the police have no suspects and there are no results.
Aras ( http://www.arasyayinclik.com/ ) is publishing the works of
Armenian authors such as Hagop Mentsuri, Megerditch Margossian, Zaven
Biberyan, Yervant Odyan, Krikor Zohrab, William Saroyan and others in
Turkish and Armenian targeting a public comprising both Armenian and
Turkish audiences alike.
In other unsolved acts of violence against Armenians around
Istanbul:
A few months ago two elderly women Araksi Alayan, aged 73, a retired
teacher, and Hermine Acikgöz were found strangled with a string in
their respective houses which were separated by a distance of 400
meters in Bakirköy district of Istanbul. Police investigations have
yielded no results. Apparently Araksi Alayan was murdered on the 6th
of November 2002 and Hermine Acikgöz on the 5th of September 2002.
Around the 25th of June 2002 an attack was carried out on the Armenian
church of Kandilli in Istanbul. Window glasses were shattered and the
string of the church bell was ripped off. About the same day, a bomb
exploded before the Armenian school Getronagan in Galata district of
Istanbul.
No one claimed responsibility for these attacks. There are no results
from Police investigations.
References:
http://www.lraper.org/haber.asp?id=487
http://www.lraper.org/haber.asp?id=168
http://www.lraper.org/haber.asp?id=187
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