JOINT EXHIBITION OF ARMENIAN AND TURKISH PHOTOGRAPHERS TO BE OPENED IN TBILISI
Arminfo
2007-02-26 23:20:00
The joint exhibition of Armenian and Turkish photographers "Merabarev"
will be opened in the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia on
February 28 and will last till March 7, BLACK SEA PRESS was informed
in the Embassy of Switzerland in Georgia.
The aim of the exhibition is rapprochement of two neighboring
peoples. The word Merabarev consists of twp parts which means greeting-
meraba in Turkish and barev in Armenian language.
"Merabarev" is a joint Armenian-Turkish project for photo journalists
which began in 2006.
Heinrich Bell Fund, Anadolu Koltor and the Swiss Embassy in Georgia
and the Caucasian Institute of the Mass Media in Yerevan financed by
Switzerland are partners of the project.
Photo journalists Ozkhan Yurdala, Mejmed Kachmazi, Kerem Uzeli, Sera
Akhan, Tolga Sezgin from the Turkish side and Ruben Mangasaryan,
German Avagyan, Karen Mirzoyan, Nelly Shishmanyan, Anait Harapetyan
from the Armenian side participated in the project.
The exhibition will be opened by Ambassador of Switzerland in Georgia
Lorenzo Amberg, Ambassador of Armenia in Georgia Grach Silvanyan,
and Ambassador of Turkey Ertan Tezgor.
In 2006 five photo journalists from Armenian photo agency "PatkeR"
visited Istanbul to prepare the exhibition and five Turkish photo
journalists from the agency "Nar" visited Yerevan.
In the second half of 2006 the exhibition was held in Istanbul,
Diarbakir, Yerevan and Gyumri.