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2012 Results of the Fund for the Support of Historical Studies
30.07.2013
The Fund for the Support of Historical Studies, created with the kind
assistance of Dr. Alper Ã-ktem, one of the supporters of the
Hrant Dink Foundation, promotes research on humanistic acts during
1915, with the aim to search and find people who with a clear
conscience serve as an example for mankind, and consequently to
disclose an unsufficiently investigated aspect of history.
Through the Fund, support will be given to research, academic work and
biographies on people ` in modern parlance; human rights
defenders ` who through their humanist acts in Anatolia
during 1915 influenced other peoples lives. Such people and their acts
may already be known or not known yet. In the latter case, the
research should help to reveal these people and that their acts be
exposed to public knowledge.
This year's Support Fund for Research in History Studies,
whose jury consists of Prof. Dr. Taner Akçam (Clark
University), Prof. Dr. Ayhan Aktar (Bilgi University), Prof. Dr. Edhem
Eldem (BoÄ?aziçi University), Prof. Raymond Kevorkian
(Paris 8 University), Prof. Hans-Lukas Kieser (Zürich
University), and Prof. Bogos Levon Zekiyan (Venice Ca'
Foscari University), has been awarded to Ishkhan Chiftjian.
ISHKHAN CHIFTJIAN
After gaining his Diplom in 2007 from Leipzig University's
Theology Department; Ishkhan Chiftjian continued to pursue his
doctoral studies at the same university, focusing on genocide,
language and collective identity. He taught Postmodern Theology at
Leipzig University. He taught also Genocide Studies at Haigazian
University (Beirut). Currently he is teaching at Hamburg
University. He is the editor of two books, `Voices from
Germany' and `New Voices from
Germany', which include interviews with and texts by German
scholars about the Armenian Genocide.
Chiftjian's work focuses on Garabet Faracıyan of Sis
(now Kozan) and his family, who took shelter in Hafız Osman
Çamurdan's household in 1920-22 and the reunion of
the surviving family members of both sides later on. The jury crowned
this work with a 2.000 ?¬ prize.
Information on Dr.Alper Ã-ktem, the supporter of the Fund for
the Support of Historical Studies
Born on 11 March 1954 in the Turkish town of Dikili, he finished his
primary education in Burdur. He started to pursue his secondary
education at the Maarif Koleji in EskiÅ?ehir, continued in Konya
and finished it in Istanbul at the Kadıköy Maarif
Koleji. In 1978, he graduated from Faculty of Medicine at Hacettepe
University in Ankara. He went to Germany for specialization in
radiology. In the 1980s he helped Turkish refugees who underwent
torture. He has been supporting the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey
for more than twenty years. Moreover, he is a board member of the
Democratic Turkey Forum in Germany. Dr. Ã-ktem has been
assisting Cem Ã-zdemir, Co-Chairman of the Unity 90/Green Party,
especially on the topics of human rights, peace and democracy in
Turkey, ever since Ã-zdemir was first voted into parliament in
1993. In 2000-2001 he published the weekly supplement PerÅ?embe
for the German daily newspaper `Die
Tageszeitung'. PerÅ?embe aimed at bringing together
German society and migrants on equal ground in the same media
platform, making migrants equal members of society, especially through
deepening the dialogue in the media, and reporting human rights
violations in Turkey. Dr. Alper Ã-ktem is married, has two
children and lives in Bielefeld, Germany, where he works as a
radiologist.
http://www.hrantdink.org/?Detail=724&Lang=&Home&Lang=en
From: Baghdasarian
30.07.2013
The Fund for the Support of Historical Studies, created with the kind
assistance of Dr. Alper Ã-ktem, one of the supporters of the
Hrant Dink Foundation, promotes research on humanistic acts during
1915, with the aim to search and find people who with a clear
conscience serve as an example for mankind, and consequently to
disclose an unsufficiently investigated aspect of history.
Through the Fund, support will be given to research, academic work and
biographies on people ` in modern parlance; human rights
defenders ` who through their humanist acts in Anatolia
during 1915 influenced other peoples lives. Such people and their acts
may already be known or not known yet. In the latter case, the
research should help to reveal these people and that their acts be
exposed to public knowledge.
This year's Support Fund for Research in History Studies,
whose jury consists of Prof. Dr. Taner Akçam (Clark
University), Prof. Dr. Ayhan Aktar (Bilgi University), Prof. Dr. Edhem
Eldem (BoÄ?aziçi University), Prof. Raymond Kevorkian
(Paris 8 University), Prof. Hans-Lukas Kieser (Zürich
University), and Prof. Bogos Levon Zekiyan (Venice Ca'
Foscari University), has been awarded to Ishkhan Chiftjian.
ISHKHAN CHIFTJIAN
After gaining his Diplom in 2007 from Leipzig University's
Theology Department; Ishkhan Chiftjian continued to pursue his
doctoral studies at the same university, focusing on genocide,
language and collective identity. He taught Postmodern Theology at
Leipzig University. He taught also Genocide Studies at Haigazian
University (Beirut). Currently he is teaching at Hamburg
University. He is the editor of two books, `Voices from
Germany' and `New Voices from
Germany', which include interviews with and texts by German
scholars about the Armenian Genocide.
Chiftjian's work focuses on Garabet Faracıyan of Sis
(now Kozan) and his family, who took shelter in Hafız Osman
Çamurdan's household in 1920-22 and the reunion of
the surviving family members of both sides later on. The jury crowned
this work with a 2.000 ?¬ prize.
Information on Dr.Alper Ã-ktem, the supporter of the Fund for
the Support of Historical Studies
Born on 11 March 1954 in the Turkish town of Dikili, he finished his
primary education in Burdur. He started to pursue his secondary
education at the Maarif Koleji in EskiÅ?ehir, continued in Konya
and finished it in Istanbul at the Kadıköy Maarif
Koleji. In 1978, he graduated from Faculty of Medicine at Hacettepe
University in Ankara. He went to Germany for specialization in
radiology. In the 1980s he helped Turkish refugees who underwent
torture. He has been supporting the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey
for more than twenty years. Moreover, he is a board member of the
Democratic Turkey Forum in Germany. Dr. Ã-ktem has been
assisting Cem Ã-zdemir, Co-Chairman of the Unity 90/Green Party,
especially on the topics of human rights, peace and democracy in
Turkey, ever since Ã-zdemir was first voted into parliament in
1993. In 2000-2001 he published the weekly supplement PerÅ?embe
for the German daily newspaper `Die
Tageszeitung'. PerÅ?embe aimed at bringing together
German society and migrants on equal ground in the same media
platform, making migrants equal members of society, especially through
deepening the dialogue in the media, and reporting human rights
violations in Turkey. Dr. Alper Ã-ktem is married, has two
children and lives in Bielefeld, Germany, where he works as a
radiologist.
http://www.hrantdink.org/?Detail=724&Lang=&Home&Lang=en
From: Baghdasarian