13/10/2011 18:25
Turk art director:We need to claim our past if we want to move on
“Unfortunately, we are a society without a memory and we need to claim our past if we want to modernize,” said Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu, Istanbul Municipal Theater’s general art director who has staged Hagop Baronyan’s “Eastern Dentist”.
In the interview given to Turkish “Hürriyet Daily News” Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu said that the Armenians are the foundation of Turkish theater and it is impossible to eradicate Armenian artists from Turkish theater.
“We need to claim our past if we want to modernize. Unfortunately, we are a society without a memory; we ignored people who had been living on this soil for thousands of years due to ideological reasons. It is impossible for us to eradicate Armenian artists from Turkish theater,” Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu said.
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