Rober Koptaş

is a journalist and writer who was the editor-in-chief of the Istanbul-based Armenian newspaper Agos from 2010 to 2015. He now manages Aras Editions in Istanbul.

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Under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey has returned to its ‘normal’ state of emergency, in which freedom of speech is punished and where minorities bear the brunt. Armenian journalist and publisher Rober Koptaş looks to persecuted writers of the past for examples of strength and resistance.

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