I have taken this photo on September 19, 2010, on the
opening day of the Holy Cross Church on Akdamar Island, Turkey. We were Invited
by “Hrant Dink” Foundation, we attended the event with a group of journalists.
Islamized Armenians also visited Akdamar to take part in the opening ceremony
of the Church. They were talking in Turkish or Kurdish and our Istanbul-
Armenians compatriots were translating. An old man by the name Farzanda from
the village Shenik (Sasun), came close to me and said that he was looking for
his relative in Yerevan, who, according to him, was born in Talin, his name is
Vardan Vardanyan and is a lecturer at one of the universities in Yerevan. At
that time, Farzanda was 70 years old. He was a one of the Hidden Armenians in
Turkey who had converted to islam.
Farzanda told me that his father’s name was Ulikhan and last
name – Gyulbadagh(yan). Farzanda’s Kurdish son in law Bashir gave me his phone
number so that his relatives in Yerevan would contact him. Later, we learned
from a Turkish Armenian residing in Armenia that on reading Bashir’s phone
number in “Aravot” newspaper and seeing Farzanda Gyulbudagh’s photo, his
relatives in Yerevan had called him, found him and met with him.
Gohar HAKOBYAN
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