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How did the bright days of the Armenian theater end? Interview with Nesim Ovadya İzrail AGOS

December 11, 2022 By administrator

Ermenice tiyatronun parlak günleri nasıl sona erdi?

Actors of the Ottoman Theater founded by Agop Vartovyan, known as Güllü Agop
Aşod Madatyan
Nesim Ovadya İzrail
Mardiros Mınakyan yönetimindeki Osmanlı Dram Kumpanyası’nın bir afişi

Nesim Ovadya İzrail was one of the speakers at the conference titled “Istanbul, 1914-1922: The History of War, Collapse, Occupation and Resistance” organized by the Hrant Dink Foundation on November 4-5. At the closing of the conference, Izrail gave a speech titled “The Rise of Armenian Theater Activities in Istanbul During the Armistice Years.” Based on his presentation with Izrail, we looked at the history of Armenian theater in Turkey.

What was the state of the Armenian theater before the armistice, that is, before 1918-1922? When did Armenian theater actors get the opportunity to perform theater in Armenian and when was this interrupted?

Theater in the European style entered Ottoman society in the 19th century thanks to the Armenians, one of the components of this society. From 1858 to 1881, theater performances, which continued in Armenian and Turkish in multilingual, were banned from playing in Armenian after this date. The founders, developers and Armenian artists of the theater stage, accustoming the audience to watching plays by going to the halls, continued with Turkish plays under the leadership of Mardiros Mınakyan, and brought the theater ship of Abdülhamit’s oppression years to the Meşrutiyet port until the Constitution proclaimed in 1908. The only Western-style theater company of these years was Mnakyan’s Ottoman Drama Company.

When the constitutional order was passed in 1908, making theater in Armenian was allowed. Turkish artists, who took to the stage with great excitement in these days of relative freedom, consisted of young volunteers who did not have enough experience yet. With the end of the years of tyranny, everything could be said and played freely on the stage. While some of the Turkish volunteers were in league with Armenian artists, some of them were making theater trials by forming groups among themselves.

For Armenian artists, the most important feature of the Constitutional Monarchy in an environment of freedom was that it was now free to play games in Armenian. With the excitement of going on stage, young Armenian artists formed a group called Azad Tadron (Free Theater) in the first days of 1908. This group of young people, who set out with a completely Armenian repertoire, declared that they were close to socialism, the newly shining ideology of the period. In the plays they staged, they took place with themes against kings, oppressors and bosses, with themes that reminded the Armenian nation of its identity. The founding and prominent names of Azad Tadron group were Ashod Madatyan, Yenovk Şahen, Şahen Hovhannesyan and Eliza Binemeciyan, who had just appeared on the stage. Vahram Papazyan from Istanbul, who was an actor in Italy, also came to the capital at regular intervals and shared his experiences with this group and took the stage together.

With his successful stage performance for Turkish intellectuals, Turkish theater managers such as Reşad Rıdvan and Burhanettin Tepsi, Vahram Papazyan was seen as an option in the development of Turkish theatre. In 1910, attempts were made to play plays with Turkish theater companies in the personality of Vahram Papazyan, the leading artist of Armenian Dramatic. Although there were inconsistencies between Papazyan, who grew up with a European discipline, and the Turkish artists of the National Ottoman Theatre (like the Othello performance played together in September 1910), in April 1912 Muhsin Ertuğrul’s in Turkish and Vahram Papazyan’s in Armenian, two songs in Armenian, were produced by the New Theater Company. The performance of Hamlet as a language has also been an indicator of important collaborations.

In the second half of 1910, the Armenian Theater Society was established in order to support the Armenian theater activities financially and in terms of audience. In 1911, the Armenian Dramatic Theater got this support behind it, with the participation of Vahram Papazyan, Aşod Madatyan, Yenovk Şahen, Kevork Sarkisyan, Eliza Binemeciyan and Mıgırdiç Çanan, Yetvart Çaprasd, Hraçya Nersesyan, Hraç Tertsakyan, her sister Adrine Tertsakyan, and Nşan Beşiktaş members. took shape. The performances of the theaters that were interrupted during the Balkan Wars, and the performances of the Armenian Dramatic Theater continued with the participation of young artists Mıgırdiç Çanan, Yetvart Çaprasd and Adrine Tertsakyan from April 1913.

Darülbedayi, which was brought to life in Istanbul in 1914, was planned as a Turkish national theater and one of its main aims was to end the Armenian artist dominance on the stage. Armenian actresses were admitted to Darülbedayi, where no Armenian actors were admitted, due to the barrier of Turkish and Muslim women to appear on the stage. This tragic situation continued for nine years until 1923.

When we come to the armistice period, we know that the Armenian theater experienced a revival. How long did this last and who were the prominent artists of this period?

In 1918, the war continued but slowed down, Armenian citizens who survived the genocide and deportation and had valid excuses were allowed to return to their places of residence and to Istanbul. Least damaged by genocide.

In the atmosphere of distrust between the Armenians of the survivors of Istanbul and the Turkish and Muslim citizens, young Armenian theater artists attempted to prepare the bylaws and regulations of the Istanbul Armenian Dramatic Theatre, which they planned to reactivate in the first months of 1918. Despite this work, which was accepted and concluded in August 1918, they waited for the war to officially end.

With the charter published in December 1918, in line with the theater process initiated by Azad Tadron in 1908, the establishment of the Istanbul Armenian Dramatic Society (Bolso Hay Dramatik Ingerutyun) was announced. The founding names of the society were Mıgırdiç Çanan, Yetvart Çaprasd and Yervant Tolayan, who were new to the stage in the pre-war years. The stage and management staff of the group came together with great excitement in a very short time and started rehearsals. Actresses Siranuş Aleksanyan, Hraç Tertsakyan, Yevkine Acemyan, Adrine Çanan, and actors Hraçya Nersesyan, Dırtad Nişanyan, Hrant Isdepanyan, Krikor Hagopyan, Şahan Saryan, and Dikran Boğos were the first artists to come forward. Ashod Madatyan, who was in Aleppo at that time, came to Istanbul with a delay of a few months and joined the group.

The new political reconciliation environment created by the days of occupation and struggle against the occupation, which started for the Turkish and Muslim majority throughout the country, became a period of relaxation and breathing for the Armenian community in Istanbul. A free environment suitable for making theater in Armenian emerged and it was the beginning of bright days for the Armenian stage in Istanbul. A large part of the Armenian theater artists who got up again gathered under the umbrella of the Istanbul Armenian Dramatic Theater with the support of wealthy Armenians. On the other hand, with the Benliyan Operetta Company, the activities of companies such as Felekyan Sisters Theatre, Vahan Şahinyan’s Cilicia Armenian Dramatic Theater, Krikor Hagopian’s Oriental Theatre, the Armenian stage peaked in Istanbul.

Hrant Dink Vakfı’nca 4-5 Kasım’da düzenlenen ‘İstanbul, 1914-1922: Savaş, Çöküş, İşgal ve Direnişin Tarihi’ başlıklı konferansta sunum yapan isimlerden biri de Nesim Ovadya İzrail’di. İzrail konferansın kapanışında “Mütareke Yıllarında İstanbul’da Ermenice Tiyatro Faaliyetlerinin Yükselişi” başlıklı bir konuşma yaptı. İzrail ile sunumundan yola çıkarak Türkiye’de Ermenice tiyatronun tarihine baktık.

Mütareke, yani 1918-1922 öncesi dönemde Ermeni tiyatrosu ne durumdaydı? Ermeni tiyatrocular, Ermenice tiyatro icra edebilme imkanlarını ne zaman elde edebildiler ve bu ne zaman kesintiye uğradı?

Osmanlı toplumuna Avrupa tarzında tiyatro, bu toplumun bileşenlerinden Ermeniler sayesinde 19. yüzyılda girmiş ve yer etmiştir. 1858’den 1881’e kadar Ermenice ve Türkçe çok dilli olarak devam eden tiyatro performanslarına, bu tarihten sonra Ermenice oyun oynama yasağı gelmişti. Tiyatro sahnesinin kurucuları, geliştiricileri ve seyirciyi salonlara giderek piyes izlemeye alıştıran Ermeni sanatçılar, bundan sonra Mardiros Mınakyan’ın liderliğinde Türkçe oyunlarla yola devam ettiler ve 1908’de ilan edilen Anayasa’ya kadar Abdülhamit’in istibdat yıllarının tiyatro gemisini Meşrutiyet limanına yanaştırdılar. Bu yılların Batılı tarzdaki tek tiyatro kumpanyası, Mınakyan’ın Osmanlı Dram Kumpanyası oldu.

1908’de Anayasal düzene geçildiğinde Ermenice tiyatro yapmak serbest bırakıldı. Bu günlerdeki göreceli özgürlük ortamında büyük heyecanla sahnelere atılan Türk sanatçılar, henüz yeterli tecrübeye sahip olmayan genç gönüllülerden oluşuyordu. İstibdat yıllarının sona ermesiyle sahnelerde her şey özgürce söylenebiliyor, oynanabiliyordu. Türk gönüllülerden bazıları, Ermeni sanatçılarla birlik olurken, bazıları da kendi aralarında gruplar oluşturarak tiyatro denemeleri yapıyorlardı.

Ermeni sanatçılar için özgürlük ortamında Meşrutiyet’in en önemli niteliği, Ermenice oyun oynamanın artık serbest olmasıydı. Sahneye çıkma heyecanıyla genç Ermeni sanatçılar 1908’in ilk günlerinde Azad Tadron (Özgür Tiyatro) isimli bir topluluk oluşturdular. Tamamen Ermenice bir repertuarla yola çıkan bu gençler topluluğu, dönemin yeni parlayan ideolojisi olan sosyalizme yakınlık duyduklarını ilan ediyorlardı. Sahneye koydukları oyunlarda krallara, zalimlere ve patronlara karşı konularla, Ermeni milletine kimliğini hatırlatan temalarla yer alıyorlardı. Azad Tadron grubunun kurucu ve öne çıkan isimleri Aşod Madatyan, Yenovk Şahen, Şahen Hovhannesyan ve sahnelere yeni çıkan Eliza Binemeciyan’dı. İtalya’da aktör olarak bulunan İstanbullu Vahram Papazyan da belli aralıklarla başkente gelip bu grupla tecrübelerini paylaşarak, birlikte sahneye çıkıyordu.

Türk aydınları, Reşad Rıdvan, Burhanettin Tepsi gibi Türk tiyatro yöneticileri için başarılı sahne performansıyla Vahram Papazyan, Türk tiyatrosunun geliştirilmesinde bir seçenek olarak görüldü. 1910 yılında Ermeni Dramatik’in önde gelen sanatçısı Vahram Papazyan’ın kişiliğinde Türk tiyatro topluluklarıyla birlikte oyunların oynanması için denemeler yapıldı. Avrupai disiplinle yetişen Papazyan ile Milli Osmanlı Tiyatrosu’nun Türk sanatçıları arasında (Eylül 1910’da birlikte oynanan Otello performansında olduğu gibi) uyumsuzluklar olmasına rağmen, Nisan 1912’de Yeni Tiyatro Kumpanyası tarafından Muhsin Ertuğrul’un Türkçe ve Vahram Papazyan’ın Ermenice, iki dilli olarak Hamlet’in sahneye konulması da, önemli iş birliklerinin göstergesi olmuştur.

1910 yılının ikinci yarısında, İstanbul’da Ermenice tiyatro faaliyetlerini maddi ve seyirci bakımından desteklemek üzere Ermeni Tiyatro Cemiyeti oluşturuldu. 1911’de bu desteği de arkasına alan Ermeni Dramatik Tiyatrosu, Vahram Papazyan, Aşod Madatyan, Yenovk Şahen, Kevork Sarkisyan, Eliza Binemeciyan ile Mıgırdiç Çanan, Yetvart Çaprasd, Hraçya Nersesyan, Hraç Tertsakyan, kız kardeşi Adrine Tertsakyan, Nışan Beşiktaşlıyan gibi genç kadroların katılımıyla şekillendi. Balkan Savaşı günlerinde aksayan tiyatroların gösterileri, 1913’ün Nisan ayından itibaren genç sanatçılar Mıgırdiç Çanan, Yetvart Çaprasd ve Adrine Tertsakyan’ın katılımıyla Ermeni Dramatik Tiyatrosu’nun performansları devam etti.

1914 yılında İstanbul’da hayata geçirilen Darülbedayi, Türk milli tiyatrosu olarak planlanmıştı ve temel amaçlarından biri sahnedeki Ermeni sanatçı üstünlüğüne son vermekti. Hiçbir Ermeni aktörün alınmadığı Darülbedayi’ye, Türk ve Müslüman kadının sahneye çıkma engeli nedeniyle Ermeni aktrisler zorunlu olarak kabul edildi. Bu trajik durum 1923’e kadar dokuz yıl devam etti.

Mütareke dönemine geldiğimizde ise Ermenice tiyatronun bir canlanma yaşadığını biliyoruz. Bu ne zamana kadar sürdü ve bu dönemin öne çıkan sanatçıları kimlerdi?

1918 yılı savaşın devam ettiği, ancak hız kestiği, soykırım ve tehcirden sağ kurtulan ve geçerli mazeretleri olan Ermeni vatandaşlara yaşadıkları yerlere ve İstanbul’a dönme izinlerinin verilmeye başlandığı günlerdir. Soykırımdan en az hasarl

a kurtulan İstanbul’un Ermenileri ile Türk ve Müslüman vatandaşlar arasında oluşan güvensizlik ortamında, genç Ermeni tiyatro sanatçıları 1918’in ilk aylarında yeniden harekete geçirmeyi planladıkları İstanbul Ermeni Dramatik Tiyatrosu’nun tüzük ve yönetmeliğini hazırlamaya giriştiler. Ağustos 1918’de kabul edilip sonuçlandırılan bu çalışmaya rağmen savaşın resmen sona ermesini beklediler.

Aralık 1918’de yayınlanan tüzükle birlikte, 1908’deki Azad Tadron’un başlattığı tiyatro sürecinin doğrultusunda, İstanbul Ermeni Dramatik Cemiyeti’nin (Bolso Hay Dramatik Ingerutyun) kuruluşu ilan edildi. Cemiyetin kurucu isimleri, savaş öncesi yıllarda sahneye yeni çıkan genç sanatçılardan Mıgırdiç Çanan, Yetvart Çaprasd, Yervant Tolayan’dı. Grubun sahne ve yönetim kadroları çok kısa bir zamanda büyük bir heyecanla bir araya geldi ve provalara başladı. Aktrislerden, Siranuş Aleksanyan, Hraç Tertsakyan, Yevkine Acemyan, Adrine Çanan, aktörlerden Hraçya Nersesyan, Dırtad Nişanyan, Hrant Isdepanyan, Krikor Hagopyan, Şahan Saryan, Dikran Boğos ilk günlerde öne atılan sanatçılar oldu. O sırada Halep’te bulunan Aşod Madatyan birkaç aylık bir gecikme ile İstanbul’a geldi ve gruba katıldı.

Ülkenin genelinde Türk ve Müslüman çoğunluk için başlayan işgal ve işgale karşı mücadele günlerinin oluşturduğu yeni siyasal saflaşma ortamı, İstanbul’da Ermeni toplumu için bir rahatlama ve nefes alma dönemi oldu. Ermenice tiyatro yapmaya elverişli özgür bir ortam ortaya çıktı ve İstanbul’da Ermeni sahnesi için parlak günlerin başlangıcı oldu. Yeniden ayağa kalkan Ermeni tiyatro sanatçılarının çok büyük kesimi, varlıklı Ermenilerin de desteğini alarak İstanbul Ermeni Dramatik Tiyatrosu’nun şemsiyesi altında toplandı. Diğer yandan Benliyan Operet Kumpanyası’yla beraber, Felekyan Kız Kardeşler Tiyatrosu, Vahan Şahinyan’ın Kilikya Ermeni Dramatik Tiyatrosu, Krikor Hagopyan’ın Şark Tiyatrosu gibi kumpanyaların faaliyetleri ile İstanbul’da Ermenice sahne, zirve yaptı.

Cumhuriyet’e doğru giden 1923’ün ilk aylarında Ermenice tiyatro yapmaya yasak konulması son darbe oldu. İstanbul’da kalan bir kısım sanatçı kabuğuna çekilirken, yine de çok sayıda önemli Ermeni sanatçının sahne faaliyetlerine devam etmek için Türkçe oyun oynamaktan başka alternatifi kalmamıştı. Çok kültürlü ve çok dilli tiyatrodan tek dilli sahneye geçiş yapıldı. Türkiye’de mütarekeden önce başlayan ve dört yıl süre için ertelenen Ermeni sahne sanatçılarının dışlanması, kaldığı yerden devam etti.

İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonrasında, dünyada esen demokrasi ve faşizm karşıtı hava ile Türkiye’de Ermenice tiyatro yapmak serbest bırakıldı. Yeniden nefeslenen Ermenice sahneler yaklaşık on yıl devam eden profesyonel performanslarla bir dönem daha parlak günler yaşadı. Siyasette gayrimüslim vatandaşları dışlama ve asimile etmenin devam etmesi ile 1955’te yaşanan 6-7 Eylül ve benzeri olaylar, profesyonel Ermeni tiyatrosunun parlak günlerinin sönümlenmesini getirdi ve amatör Ermeni sahnesi tiyatronun bayrağını devraldı. Yıllar içinde devam eden amatör Ermeni tiyatrosu giderek gücünden çok şey kaybetti. Amatör Ermeni tiyatrosu günümüzde Ermenice performansın yerini Türkçe performanslara terk ederek yetersiz bir seviyede yoluna devam etmektedir.

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Reuters: Azerbaijan has a list of hundreds of Karabakh Armenians it wants to detain

Azerbaijan has a list of several hundred Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh whom it wants to detain on charges of various crimes, Reuters reports, citing a “senior diplomat”. “Azerbaijan has a list of “several hundred” Armenians in Karabakh whom they want to detain on charges of various crimes,” the agency reported. Azerbaijan has already detained Ruben Vardanyan, […]

Artsakh: 88,780 forcibly displaced persons arrived in Armenia from Karabakh as of 10 am Friday

As of 10 a.m. Friday, 88,780 forcibly displaced persons have entered Armenia from Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Nazeli Baghdasaryan, press secretary of the Armenian prime minister, informed about this during the press conference presenting the activities of the respective humanitarian centers that has been set up. “It can be seen from the numeric dynamics that a certain […]

“Vito stays in Artsakh, Samvel Babayan is in Armenia how did he manage to live? Video

Samvel Babayan, a deceptive liar watched the video when he said I am the last one to live but he is first to run now he is the first he is in Armenia. “As if I came to Africa, you are surprised, I came to my country. The journalist asked me: when will you come, […]

Righteous Jews Urge Pro-Azeri Rabbis To Cancel Planned Conference in Baku

By Harut Sassounian, Shortly after I wrote a column two weeks ago condemning European pro-Azerbaijan Rabbis for planning to hold their conference in Baku, I was pleasantly surprised to receive an email from 18 mostly Jewish prominent individuals, including eight righteous Rabbis, who condemned the trip to Azerbaijan and called for its cancellation. In a […]

Luis Moreno Ocampo the USA, France, and Russia can stop the Karabakh Genocide By Azerbaijan in one minute detail in a Video

It’s like a shock, but it’s obvious, it’s a #genocide today, and the question is not to debate the genocide but to prevent the killings in Nagorno Karabakh. (First Prosecutor of Intl. Criminal Court – Luis Moreno Ocampo) #ArtsakhBlockade #AzerbaijanIsATerroristState

Aliyev Genocide can’t be said in public, State Department official Yuri Kim: Video

Bob Menendez։ Azerbaijan’s Blockade of Artsakh has Hallmark of Genocide Unreal. I’ve never witnessed anything like this. Yuri Kim, a State Department official, says she can’t publicly answer why Azerbaijan’s dictator has kept the Lachin corridor closed — meaning she knows his plans are to starve Artsakh into coercion. A deeply troubling non-answer that speaks […]

Genocide is About to Unfold in Artsakh, and the West Has Secured a Front-Row Seat

by Karnig Kerkonian  For seventeen days, Azerbaijani special forces and military personnel—masquerading as “environmentalists”—have blocked the only road connecting Artsakh to Armenia. They have effectively severed the only lifeline the Artsakh Armenians have to the outside world—a lifeline guaranteed by the Trilateral Statement of November 10, 2020. With 120,000 Artsakh Armenians now completely encircled and isolated, Azerbaijan is […]

US senator urges sanctions on Azerbaijan to prevent ‘genocide’

A top senator on Tuesday urged the United States to impose sanctions on Azerbaijan’s leader, accusing him of starting a campaign of “genocide” against an ethnic Armenian enclave, charges rejected by Baku. Armenia has accused Azerbaijan of spurring a humanitarian crisis by closing Armenia’s only road link into Nagorno-Karabakh, although the enclave’s separatist authorities said […]

In an effort to whitewash its criminal record, Azerbaijan unilaterally decides to send ‘aid’ to victims of its blockade

At the behest of the #Azerbaijani regime associated with terrorism, there is a pattern of altering the attire of terrorists to align with their propagandistic narrative. These individuals, who are consistently identified as terrorists, exhibit a versatile facade. They might portray themselves as members of the Red Crescent on one occasion, only to swiftly transform […]

Turks are well taught that the Diaspora should be defeated first so that the issue of Armenia can be easily resolved. Yunona Hakobjanyan

People in Armenia have become a little more desperate and indifferent. But at the same time, people understand well what is happening around them. Los Angeles-based doctor and public figure Yunona Hakobjanyan said on the air of 168TV’s “Review” program, talking about the impressions she got from her visit to Armenia this time. According to […]

Understanding Azerbaijan’s Blockade of the Lachin Corridor as Part of a Wider Genocidal Campaign

The Tip of the Iceberg Understanding Azerbaijan’s Blockade of the Lachin Corridor asPart of a Wider Genocidal Campaign against Ethnic Armenians. IntroductionAs the world condemns Azerbaijan’s blockade of the Lachin Corridor, we must not lose sight ofthe deeper threat fueling the humanitarian catastrophe: the full-scale ethnic cleansing and potentialgenocide of Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh 1 and […]

Why Do We Expect the World to Care?

By now, most informed Armenians have digested the results of the emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the closure of the Berdzor (Lachin) Corridor and the dire situation in our beloved Artsakh—the humanitarian disaster that is unfolding before our eyes. The result is the same that Armenians have grown accustomed to over the […]

Surprisingly few people know these two Aliev sixes in Armenia.

By Aleksander Lapshin, Surprisingly few people know these two Aliev sixes in Armenia. Meanwhile, all the evil that Ilhamostan is doing against Armenia and Artsakh comes from these two. On the left head of the SGB, General Ali Nagiev, and on the right head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, General Vilayat Evazov. All abductions, […]

In the year 626 Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem Abraham traveled to Mecca and met with Prophet Mohammed

By Hay Wanderer In the year 626 Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, Abraham traveled to Mecca and met with Prophet Mohammed. After the meeting, Prophet Mohammed issued a declaration that recognized and respected the Armenian Church with its Patriarch and followers. Prophet Mohammed commanded all Muslims to respect his declaration. In the year 1187 Salah al […]

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