Armenians in Istanbul
Total population | |
---|---|
70,000-170,000[1] | |
Languages | |
Armenian, Turkish | |
Religion | |
Armenian Apostolic Church, Armenian Catholic Church |
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Year | TOTAL | Armenians | % | ||||||||||||||
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1478 [2] | 100,000 - 120,000 | 5,000-6,000 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
1844[3][4] | 891,000 | 222,000 | 24.9 | ||||||||||||||
1880s[4] | 250,000 | ||||||||||||||||
1885[3] | 873,565 | 156,861 | 17.9% | ||||||||||||||
1913 | 1,125,000 | 163,670[5] | 14.5% | ||||||||||||||
2011 | 13,483,052[6] | 50,000 - 70,000 | .3-.5% | ||||||||||||||
2015 | 13,483,052 | 170,000 | 1.1% |
Armenians in Istanbul (Armenian: Պոլսահայեր, romanized: Bolsahayer; Turkish: İstanbul Ermenileri) are a major part of the Turkish Armenian community and historically one of the largest ethnic minorities of Istanbul, Turkey. The city is often referred to as Bolis (Պոլիս) by Armenians, which is derived from the ending of the historical name of the city Constantinople.
Today, most estimations put the number of Armenian-Turkish Citizens in Istanbul at 50,000, 60,000 or 70,000.[7][8][9][10][11]
History
Institutions
At present, the Armenian community in Istanbul has 20 schools, 17 cultural and social organizations, three newspapers called Agos, Jamanak and Marmara, two sports clubs, named Şişlispor and Taksimspor, and two health establishments as well as numerous religious foundations set up to support these activities.[12][13]
Getronagan Armenian High School is in Istanbul.
Notable Armenians from Istanbul
The following is the list of prominent Armenians who either were born in Istanbul (Constantinople) or have worked there.
- Ottoman era (before 1923)
- Aram Andonian, journalist
- Arpiar Arpiarian, writer
- Balyan family, dynasty of architects
- Hagop Baronian, writer, satirist
- Nazaret Daghavarian, doctor
- Erukhan, writer
- Hagop Kazazian Pasha, minister of Finance
- Komitas Vardapet, musician
- Mkrtich Khrimian, religious leader, writer
- Yervant Odian, writer, satirist
- Ruben Sevak, writer
- Levon Shant, playwright, writer
- Mimar Sinan, architect
- Siamanto, writer
- Papken Siuni, political activist
- Bedros Tourian, poet
- Daniel Varujan, poet
- Rupen Zartarian, writer, educator
- Krikor Zohrab, statesman, author
- Republican era (1923–present)
- Arman Manukyan, professor, writer, economist
- Hrant Dink, journalist, editor, columnist
- Agop Dilâçar, linguist of the Turkish language and co-founder of the Turkish Language Association
- Udi Hrant Kenkulian, Turkish classical musician
- Ara Güler, photographer
See also
- Demographics of Istanbul
- Organization of Istanbul Armenians
- Armenians in Turkey
- Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople
References
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- ^ https://ipwr.net/global-voices/armenian-immigrants-hostage-turkish-politics[permanent dead link]
- ^ 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 (in Armenian) Nicholas Adontz, «Հայկական հարցի լուծման շուրջ» [Around solution of the Armenian question], “Publishing house of Yerevan State University”, Yerevan, 1989, pp.87-88
- ^ a b (in Armenian) ՍՏԱՄԲՈՒԼԱՀԱՅ ՀԱՄԱՅՆՔ. ԱՆՑՅԱԼԸ, ՆԵՐԿԱՆ, ԽՆԴԻՐՆԵՐԸ (պատմական ակնարկ)
- ^ Justin McCarthy, THE POPULATION OF THE OTTOMAN ARMENIANS
- ^ Turkish Statistical Institute: Population of Town Centers and Provinces in Turkey Archived July 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ AZAD-HYE. "Azad-Hye Middle East Armenian Portal (Turkish Armenians hope for new era)". www.azad-hye.net. Archived from the original on 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
- ^ 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 - News - ArmeniaNow.com". armenianow.com.
- ^ The Armenian Church Archived June 14, 2002, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Edmund Herzig, Marina Kurkchiyan, The Armenians: past and present in the making of national identity, 2005, p. 133
- ^ "Ana Sayfa - T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı". www.kultur.gov.tr.
- ^ AFP news agency (Director). Discreet but proud: The Armenians of Istanbul. Event occurs at 10 seconds. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
Further reading
- Hovannisian, Richard G. (ed.), Armenian Constantinople. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2010.
- Tchilingirian, Hratch, "The 'Other' Citizens: Armenians in Turkey between Isolation and (dis)Integration," Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 25 (2017), pp. 156–84.