Mehmet Fatih Uslu on the pleasures and perils of translating Armenian to Turkish

July 30, 2019

Turkey Book Talk episode #95 – Mehmet Fatih Uslu, faculty member in the Turkish Language and Literature Department at Istanbul Şehir University, on the pleasures and challenges of translating from Armenian into Turkish.

Uslu has translated a number of significant texts in recent years, including by the great early 20th century Istanbul Armenian feminist Zabel Yesayan and the 19th century playwright Hagop Baronyan.

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Posted by William Armstrong
Filed in Armenians, History, Interviews, Istanbul, Middle East, Minorities, Nationalism, Ottoman history, Podcast, Turkey-Armenia relations, Turkish history, Turkish literature
Tags: Armenian Genocide, Armenian literature, Armenians, Books, history, Istanbul, Mehmet Fatih Uslu, translation, Turkish literature

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