Markar Esayan was an Armenian author, journalist, and politician of Turkey.
13 Facts About Markar Esayan
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Markar Esayan was a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the Justice and Development Party representing Istanbul since 2015 and a member of his party's Central Decision-Making and Executive Board.
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Markar Esayan was one of the first Armenian members of Turkey's parliament in decades alongside Garo Paylan and Selina Ozuzun Dogan.
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Markar Esayan was born on 4 February 1969 in Istanbul.
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Markar Esayan's father was a Christian Armenian, and his mother was a Muslim Circassian.
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Markar Esayan completed his elementary and secondary education at Private Bomonti Armenian Catholic Primary School, and his high school education at Private Getronagan Armenian High School.
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Markar Esayan graduated from Anadolu University Business Management School in 1995.
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Markar Esayan first wrote intermittently for the Agos newspaper, and as a regular columnist from 2001, when Hrant Dink was the editor-in-chief, until about a year after Dink's assassination in 2007.
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Markar Esayan wrote for Yeni Safak daily newspaper between 2013 and 2016 and for the daily newspaper Aksam since then until September 2020.
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Markar Esayan has two other non-fiction books: Good Things, published in 2011, includes his various articles and essays.
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Markar Esayan was a AKP member of parliament for Istanbul during the 25th, 26th and 27th Terms of TBMM.
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In various articles he wrote for Taraf and Sabah daily newspapers Markar Esayan described the 1915 "Catastrophe" as Armenian genocide.
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Markar Esayan died on 16 October 2020 from gastric cancer, aged 51.