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    NEW MAGAZINE TO REPRESENT ALL TURKEY'S MINORITIES

    Hurriyet
    May 31 2011
    Turkey

    Turkey's minorities should try harder to break out of their shell,
    according to the editor-in-chief of a new monthly magazine that aims
    to lend a collective voice to Turkey's Armenian, Greek, Bulgarian and
    Syriac minorities. "Paros" (torch in Armenian) will be published in
    Turkish to reach a broader audience.

    "Turkey had no magazines aiming to shed light on minority communities.

    At the moment, we are unique in this field. As Turkey is changing,
    so the minorities' world has begun to acquire new vigor. I believe
    the timing for Paros' launch is quite accurate, and precisely for
    this reason, because Turkish society has grown more aware," Mayda
    Saris told Hurriyet Daily News.

    The representatives of Turkey's minorities gathered in a hall allocated
    by Å~^iÅ~_li Mayor Mustafa Sarıgul at Ramada Hotel in the district
    of Pangaltı to participate in the magazine's publicity meeting on
    Monday night. Mayor Sarıgul expressed his support for the enterprise
    and added that minorities were an indispensable part of Turkey.

    "Paros means torch; and let's hope this torch never fades away and
    keeps our paths alight. We wish for all cultures to live on and never
    get lost," Sarıgul told the Daily News.

    The magazine contributes to a country's culture when minorities knew
    the language of their resident country well and launched publications
    that addressed the general public, Saris said. Such publications show
    people what they do not see and make them think about different things,
    he added.

    Agos magazine, an Armenian weekly whose editor-in-chief Hrant Dink
    was assassinated in 2007, had managed to attract substantial interest
    because it was published in Turkish, said Paros' editor.

    "Care needs to be taken to prevent Armenian, Greek, Syriac, Bulgarian
    and all other languages from becoming obsolete, for languages are
    our wealth. However, it is also a truism that our youngsters prefer
    to read in Turkish," Saris said.

    The magazine will primarily cover social, cultural, educational,
    economic and artistic subjects, according to Saris, who also added
    that young writers showed considerable interest in the publication. A
    publicity issue of Paros magazine has already been published with
    its initial staff of 18.

    "We are going to employ many writers from diverse ethnic backgrounds:
    Turks, Armenians, Greeks, Bulgarians and Syriacs. While Turkey and
    the world are changing, minorities should also break out of their
    isolation," Saris said.

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